IMHO, the best looking turntable ever produced is the Gale GT2101. Second best looker is the Transcriptors Skeleton. The IMF and the Micro Seiki 1000 are both gorgeous, as well as the Oracle Delphi permutations. The Michells are close runners up.
Turntables from 1-10: Personality 8.5 Beauty 12
This thread could be interesting for any components, but I write as I am thinking of adding a turntable to my system.
In the end, I might not use it very often, but I love the beauty of turntables, if only as a conversation piece for my missionary work with non audiophiles.
Obviously, I want it to sound very good too but I might get more pleasure per dollar per hour of usage with an unusually gorgeous turntable. I need to keep the budget to < $10,000 retail.
Could anyone recommend a particular VPI model? The HRX is obviously gorgeous, but I imagine the less expensive ones look great too and much of the same performance as their top of the line?
How about the Michell Gyrodec SE? Is it as gorgeous as it looks in pictures? Oracle?
Obviously the dowdy LP12 is out, as are the mdf Regas and others.....
Thanks for any ideas.
In the end, I might not use it very often, but I love the beauty of turntables, if only as a conversation piece for my missionary work with non audiophiles.
Obviously, I want it to sound very good too but I might get more pleasure per dollar per hour of usage with an unusually gorgeous turntable. I need to keep the budget to < $10,000 retail.
Could anyone recommend a particular VPI model? The HRX is obviously gorgeous, but I imagine the less expensive ones look great too and much of the same performance as their top of the line?
How about the Michell Gyrodec SE? Is it as gorgeous as it looks in pictures? Oracle?
Obviously the dowdy LP12 is out, as are the mdf Regas and others.....
Thanks for any ideas.