3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢

@grooves, thanks for your heartfelt concern about my mental state, but jealousy towards people who buy these things is not part of it. You are correct I haven’t heard any of these tables and I never will. I’ve reached an age that denies me the ability to hear the alledged superiority of these turntables anyway, so I couldn’t care less. However, charging $150.000 for a dressed up Technics turntable is sort of offensive and simply begs to be ridiculed. I’ll gladly accomodate..... 😋

Dear @halcro  : ""  Platterspeed measurements are for “entertainment purposes only”. All test records are faulty...""

Got it?.  Maybe we took/take audio critical issues really seriously and is how we have to do it.

My worried about is because the platterspeed  charts came fom him in his TT reviews.

As a fact I took it in more than one time those charts as a " reference " in some threads.

R.

Dear @edgewear : "" However, charging $150.000 for a dressed up Technics turntable is sort of offensive ....""

Yes if you consider the facts of the main whole TT design that in 2020 was analised here on a thread where one of many posts about is this one:

This is what was posted by some one or maybe in the review ( I can't remember. ):
:

""""" is an acceptable price for pushing the boundaries of what is possible with hifi and sound quality """""

Here Agoner comments about:

Who told you that the SAT TT " pushed the boundaries of what is possible....".

The TT apports almost nothing to the TT kind of designs, exist nothing new/novelty or unique that appears for the very first time in the audio history and antinn resumed it in his statements:


""""" this table is not breaking any new state of the art. The motor is a modified Technics; the base is a modified Minus-K isolation platform and as far as the plinth, magnesium alloy has been known for over 50 years to provide superior damping qualities """""

and neither for the hold down LP mechanism.

R.

@rauliruegas,

Please do not bring me back into this conversation.  But, for the record, this is what I said about the SAT:

"However, from my perspective as someone with an engineering background, this table is not breaking any new state of the art. The motor is a modified Technics; the base is a modified Minus-K isolation platform and as far as the plinth, magnesium alloy has been known for over 50 years to provide superior damping qualities....But the review does indicate that a lot of machining was done in Switzerland by the same group that machines parts for Hasselblad (that has a $48K camera w/o lens). So, it is an object where no expense was been spared.

It would have been nice to know how much benefit did the modified Minus-K base provided...Otherwise, the design is very compact and compared to others could be very appealing, especially those that already have a SAT arm. Is this table going to be trickle-down - no; the primary technologies - the motor, the base, the plinth are all tried and true - but not necessarily together. And, it is entirely possible that the table & arm form a ’magical’ synergy that the whole exceeds the sum of the parts and it sounds awesome.".

Otherwise for a blast from the past - here is the Audio 1985 review of the Technics SP -10MK3 TURNTABLE -  Audio-1985-02.pdf (worldradiohistory.com).  

@antinn  , got it. Last time for sure. Don't worry and sorry to disturb you. Apologizes for that.
R.