Equipment Recommendations - The Home For New System and Upgrade Advice
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jt4527
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Well that certainly is a thing
TenderLovingKiller®
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The “Thorens” branding in the white plastic font reminds me of the font used by Tiger Games.
I kinda wanna play my old Spider-Man Handheld now.
Turntable design by HAL.
Jbraswell
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It’s kind of not ugly either. It’s just MASSIVE and probably hugely over engineered.
kvetcha
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It genuinely looks like a prop from a late 70s sci-fi film.
Hemotep
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Something off the original Star Trek series.
Yeah agreed. I used to have this toy when I was a kid. It was called Armatron. It was the coolest thing ever when I was like 8 years old. This new table looks like Armatron.
kvetcha
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It also looks like a high-end power tool, like some kind of metal lathe.
I wish I still had Armatron. My father wouldn't allow any of my action figures to have guns, I had to throw them all out. So they all had to be really proficient in karate. But when Armatron entered the scene everything changed. Now they could be super villains who would pick up their foes via Armitron with alarmingly slow imprecision and rhythmically turn them upside down and bonk their heads into the ground in order to further their fiendish plot of world domination. It was awesome.
TenderLovingKiller®
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It’s ugly as in it’s not an aesthetic that I enjoy especially for a turntable
But it’s also not in that it’s symmetrical, it’s balanced and it isn’t tacky in anyway. It totally does look like a deck pulled from Clavius Base.
It’s not my taste or preference for a turntable either but I don’t think that means it’s ugly.
TenderLovingKiller®
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yeah, it looks like the type of turntable someone who also owns a 3D printer would purchase.
Slimwhit33
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I prefer option 2, if space allows.
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Angsty
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If you can’t go Sutherland, I’d suggest Bryston. I have the older BP-1.5 which is phenomenal. The BP-2-20 MM/MC is the contemporary equivalent. It requires a separately priced power supply which jacks up the cost to unreasonable levels in the US; maybe a better deal in Canada. Worth at least giving a demo run.
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Angsty
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Regarding the ADS, I’d totally upgrade from the Aria before buying the speed controller. The speed stability on the Classic is very good without the ADS and I’ve never experienced any true inconvenience moving the belt from one level of my Traveler pulley to the other except for … when I forget to move it back to 33.3!
The essential simplicity of the deck is made more complicated by the ADS; potentially another component to have problems versus just a motor.
The essential simplicity of the deck is made more complicated by the ADS; potentially another component to have problems versus just a motor.
Angsty
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Damn - I had one of those! I made it programmable as a science fair project!
I'm not gunna lie. I wish I still had it. It was so cool.