Ed Selley
Active Member
So... remember this little throwaway line?
Well, I went to Vertere today. I went along to talk to the founder, have the MG1 tweaked and updated and collect something interesting for review. I also spent some time with this;
An RG-1. In latest spec with new Reference arm and iso platform. Yours for... and there's no easy way to say this... £162,200. It lives in a test system with an MG-1 MkII and an SG-1;
The non Vertere electronics are a Swiss brand called FM Acoustics who are for when you find Nagra a bit cheap. The speakers are PMCs. Obviously, I am a deeply suggestable human being so it would be stupidity itself actually listen to the RG-1...
...but I did anyway. You know the scene in Dogma where Alanis Morrisette melts Damon and Affleck? Where they die but they're actually euphoric as they do so because it's the voice of God? Well, that basically. I cannot reconcile how records I know well sounded on that thing. It is incomprehensible and came with the gnawing feeling that I'll never own it... but the euphoria I've heard it anyway. You can buy more expensive turntables than the RG-1 and I have heard some of them too. They still don't get close.
Well, I went to Vertere today. I went along to talk to the founder, have the MG1 tweaked and updated and collect something interesting for review. I also spent some time with this;
An RG-1. In latest spec with new Reference arm and iso platform. Yours for... and there's no easy way to say this... £162,200. It lives in a test system with an MG-1 MkII and an SG-1;
The non Vertere electronics are a Swiss brand called FM Acoustics who are for when you find Nagra a bit cheap. The speakers are PMCs. Obviously, I am a deeply suggestable human being so it would be stupidity itself actually listen to the RG-1...
...but I did anyway. You know the scene in Dogma where Alanis Morrisette melts Damon and Affleck? Where they die but they're actually euphoric as they do so because it's the voice of God? Well, that basically. I cannot reconcile how records I know well sounded on that thing. It is incomprehensible and came with the gnawing feeling that I'll never own it... but the euphoria I've heard it anyway. You can buy more expensive turntables than the RG-1 and I have heard some of them too. They still don't get close.
