Final turntable? Take your pick from these beauts...

**Marco** · 08-09-2009, 18:51

LOL. You knows I lurves ya!

Marco.

**Alex_UK** · 08-09-2009, 19:33

The Clearaudio & Transrotor look like they should be mounted in the centre of Dr who's Tardis... In fact the Transrotor reminds me of one of those chocolate fountains you see at some* weddings.

[* i.e. Chav weddings - no offence intended to anyone who had a chocolate fountain at their wedding. Or if any of you are actually Chav's of course.]

**Clive** · 08-09-2009, 19:53

Originally Posted by John

I would build my own
It would use the VPI supper platter with bearing £1000 with the Verus drive £1500 a slate plinth £250 with the Terminator arm £550 and Decca london Cartridge £1000 it would look a bit like this apart from the platter
http://www.trans-fi.com/orberus.htm
If I could source a different platter and bearing then the cost might come down
Its a simple design and could do in stages perhaps get a motor first then when funds can afford go for the Verus
Its nice to dream!
Still a visit to Marco might change all that

All I can say at the moment is to keep an eye on what Vic is doing. John's dream may well become affordable.

**The Vinyl Adventure** · 08-09-2009, 20:08

i found a winner

this joke is still funny to me!

**Marco** · 08-09-2009, 20:14

And me - my head is just as daft as yours!

That's a modified Xerxes though, innit?

Marco.

**Alex_UK** · 08-09-2009, 20:17

Love the design of the tonearm, me want for the 401!

**The Vinyl Adventure** · 08-09-2009, 20:23

im guessing you dont want to buy my xerxes then marco

**Marco** · 08-09-2009, 20:27

LOL. Well, erm, errrrrr....... Mmmm...

Marco.

**RochaCullen** · 09-09-2009, 08:32

Originally Posted by hamish

no your all wrong... sell your crappy sl1210 davinci blan blah crap
this is what you want:

http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Lim...?itemid=175523

its got a cd player built in to it....

27% off too!!!

You wouldn't believe it, but my father-in-law, who has recently moved back from New Zealand, brought with him one of these. He unwrapped it the other day and suggested I hook it up to my hifi. I love his sense of humour.

**pure sound** · 09-09-2009, 13:00

Originally Posted by Marco

Hi Guy,

Oooooooh, now *that* will be very interesting!! My money's on the EMT (in probably the areas that matter to me most). Is that a TSD-15 cartridge on it?

Marco.

This deck came straight from a radio station but is in surprisingly good condition. It has a fairly prosaic Shure MM fitted which appears to be wired through to an onboard phono stage. I'll get used to it using that initially and then (if need be) try a more ambitious MM. After that I'll need to see whether there's some way of getting access to the output of the arm and attaching my own transformer & phono stage which might give me a better idea of what the deck & arm can do.

I did borrow a TSD-15 for a couple of months a few years ago but didn't really get on with it. Certainly powerful sounding but not so nice to listen to even after a deal of experimentation with loading. I'd like to try my Io and transformer with this if I can find a way to connect them. As the deck is borrowed, I can't really do anything too major to it.

It certainly is a beautifully made thing even if the thin disc 'platter' and thick heavy mat take some getting used to. I wasn't quite prepared for how large it would be either. My slate plinthed SP10 is enormous & this is almost the same size.

I suspect the motor units will have a similar (ie not much at all) sound. I suppose the SMEV on my other SP10 may be different in presentation to the 929 though.

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