New Turntable Advice

I was able to locate a beautiful bespoke refurbished Sony PS-X9 today here in The USA. In fact the person who refurbished my Sony PS-X700 has both a Nakamichi Dragon CT and the Sony PS-X9. It’s been his reference TT since 2020.
 

The unit has been carefully reworked caps, transistors and some special devices also with cleaning and re-lube all the actuators and mechanicanisms. So I’m very excited to be able to see the unit and take a listen. He has been a great trusted source for me in the past. No need to ship it within driving distance!

Richard we 3D printed large propellant tanks for our Satellites. We designed a built a manufacturing cell with four robotic stations 90 deg apart. Two stations which were 180 apart from each other were additive manufacturing and the two stations were machining centers. And all four stations included optical inspection. These tanks were ~ 40-50" in diameter and ~ 6-7' tall. 
technology ! 

@richardkrebs 

Here in New Zealand, we use 3D printing of titanium to build rocket engines

Hadn't realised you were just across the ditch!  About the only place better than Oz?

I had not heard of laser technology to fuse titanium particles until I read Wilson Benesch's paper on the design and manufacture of their latest tonearm!  Do you know what technology is behind 3D 'printing' of titanium?

To add to your discussion, any positional difference between the groove and the cartridge body in two of the three dimensions will be magnified by the pickup.  That also includes reflections from vibrations induced in the vinyl coming from the vinyl/platter interface

@richardbrand,

Well you are speaking to someone who is wildly biased towards NZ, so is it a great place to live? yes indeed. Maybe we can catch up some time. I'm in AU from time to time and perhaps you visit NZ?

I'm not ofay with the tech used in titanium 3D printing, just know that one of our customers does it and they ain't telling,. 

Yes when you view everything from the cartridge's perspective, the impossibility of the engineering design is most apparent. It is amazing that we get a facsimile of music at all, let alone one that can, at times, appear almost real. 

@richardkrebs 

My kids are 50% Kiwi (I mean, there are two of them and each is 50%) so I have visited a few times. I am a bit tied down because my current partner works full time in her own small business in Sydney.  Love to catch up