Awesome Audiophile Snake Oil

They’ve convinced me

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That's amazing. The description doesn't even make sense.

But yes, agreed: quite convincing.

Holy shit, lol

Built-in noise cut circuit using a good quality of parts is doing.

It reads like Madlibs that didn't quite work out. Company is based in PA and not only do they have free consultation, but also a loyalty program. The whole site is wonderful. $9000 cables. $35000 headphone amps. $123000 turntables. Fascinating!

I want to be on the pricing strategy team, do they sit around the table upping the price until someone finally cracks and starts laughing?

Agreed. My kinda place, if so. Going into every staff meeting with that "I'm not even blinking until we get to seven figures" face.

i wonder how vast the soundstage would be if i applied cream electret to the RUT-1

Some all-time classic contributions recently to this (already MFSL-quality) thread.

Some amazing close-out deals on The Cable Company's sister site usedcable.com. $2000 RCA cables on fire sale for the low low price of $875.

No doubt with all the aligned electrons squeezed out of them, though.

plus they're all gunked up from the hot stampers the previous owners played through em

This is a far cry from switchplates and crystals, but in the spirit of Absurd Audio I offer you this.

https://clearaudio.de/en/products/turntables-statement.php

Altho to be honest if I was a billionaire I’d probably buy one.

Price is somewhere around $230,000 CAD

I would pay that much for a replica made out of Legos.

But not for the actual turntable.

So $250K turntables are the new $250K watches?

Wow. 350 KG (770 lb.). I'd be terrified to place it anywhere other than terra firma.

And it can't even play 16 RPM! Worthless.

tbrr if I was a billionaire I’d buy a handful of these garbage products over breakfast and have them overnighted to discard by dinner the next day

not a lot of them, because I’m not that wasteful!

I'd buy one and dedicate it to listening to Misfits bootlegs that sound like they were recorded in the bottom of a well.

To this day I am unsure whether Audiophile magazine (or whoever it was) was trolling its readership by deciding that the "unmeasurables" separating good gear from great, were "pace, rhythm and timing" - acronym PRAT.

Lol, I have heard that turntable on more than one occasion.

I'd buy one and dedicate it to listening to Misfits bootlegs that sound like they were recorded in the bottom of a well.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 11:35 PM

New bucket list item, thx.

Continuing on that sidebar, I saw some reddit thread recently where some poor soul was asking if the early Misfits singles had been remastered or anything like that because he keeps trying to listen to them but they sound so terrible!

Sure, the Misfits do sound terrible, but probably not what they meant . . .

I may or may not have an alt on Reddit where I offer purposely ridiculous advice in audiophile (and similar) subs.

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wtf, Static Age sounds awesome for 1978 recordings

https://clearaudio.de/en/products/turntables-statement.php

omg it's a LINEAR TRACKING table

770 pounds!!!!

brb installing additional structure support in the basement below my turntable

i thought they made linear tracking illegal in the early '90s

lol @ all of this

(those last three posts just made me crack up IRL)

huh, OK I did not know this

"Since the early 1980s, an elegant solution has been the near-frictionless air bearing linear arm that requires no tracking drive mechanism other than the record groove. This provides a similar benefit as the electronic linear tonearm without the complexity and necessity of servo-motor correction for tracking error. In this case the trade-off is the introduction of pneumatics in the form of audible pumps and tubing. A more elegant solution is the mechanically driven low-friction design, also driven by the groove. Examples include Souther Engineering (U.S.A.), Clearaudio (Germany), and Aura (Czech Republic). This design places an exceeding demand upon precision engineering due to the lack of pneumatics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph#Linear_tracking

I guess that explains the 770 lbs thing

Part of that 770 pounds is that gyroscopic weight hanging from the bottom of the platter, which is supposed to help with stability.

I have a friend who has an (80s Japanese Sony?) linear tracking arm turntable and he says they are really better than a regular tone arm (no inner groove distortion), it's just that they were more expensive and finicky so they didn't really catch on.

“Aluminium, stainless steel and bullet proof wood”

Uh yeah, I mean I guess bullet damage could introduce some audible distortion in certain frequencies, don’t wanna leave that unaccounted for I suppose

*reads up on all this* The weight is clearly designed for you to push the whole thing out of a window in rage to land on the person who convinced you to buy it.

I just want to make it clear that I would never buy this turntable even if I had the money.

I guess I don't mind that it exists - it's like some exotic supercar or something.

i would just like to say that i have owned a number of technics linear tracking turntables and think very highly of them

i would like to say that i have never shot a turntable with a gun

ok maybe winged a crosley or 2 but thats it

Feeling a bit sad I sold my Technics linear tracker a few years back now - it even had individual track programming. Had a nice Pioneer one in the late 90s which unfortunately bit the dust too.

I just want to make it clear that I would never buy this turntable even if I had the money.

if I had [the] money, I probably wouldn't buy this particular turntable, but I would have many different turntables.

you never got so tired of getting up to fiddle with the record player when a side ended you started just shooting at it until it stopped? I guess outside of Texas not everyone has basket full of remote controls and guns on their coffee table

bloody hell, until this revive, i had totally forgotten re my first turntable.
a linear tracking panasonic sl-n15.
i absolutely loved that thing.

I don't get it... almost seems like a gag, where the format turns out to be vinyl (but I see it's something different):
https://www.stereogum.com/2184752/bob-dylan-t-bone-burnett-new-audio-format/news/

oh wow that looks like a lot of ions

so it's an acetate, as used for vinyl masters since the year dot, with the added bonus that you destroy it a little when you play it, and it's a one-off so there's no way back from that.

finally, a chance to hear 80-year-old Bob Dylan rerecording some of his old songs in perfect archival fidelity

Sony getting in on the snake oil:
https://www.engadget.com/sony-3700-walkman-mp3-players-200619566.html