Well-Tempered Golf Ball?

There are some very funny answers here but I don't see any comment from anyone who has heard one.I've heard an Amadeus at length , ( many hours , several different carts and electronics).I'm not an owner or affiliated in any way with Well Tempered ; I just spend too much time at my dealer's place!
I'm not a reviewer so can't use the audiophile terminology as well as others here ; these are just listening impressions. In summary , it is ( IMO) an outstanding table.It is very quiet , with no rumble detectable. Speed is accurate ( Clearaudio strobe and KAB strobe)- I'm quite pitch sensitive so thankfully I couldn't hear any problems.Music just floats from a very black background.e played a very old Peggy Lee LP last week which looked like it had seen better days ( likle most of us , I guess) but it had no problems and tracked well. The standard cart seems to be Dyna XX2 but we played with my Te Kaitora Rua and a Koetsu Rosewood we had lying around. The better the cart , the better the sound I think I'm trying to say.My listening is almost exclusively jazz and classical but I love " Le Parc" by Tangerine Dream . On " Yellowstone Parc" there is a tight low bass line which underpins the whole song- get this wrong , and there is just an awful low frequency mess. Get it right and there is a darkly forboding , but very melodic , tight rhythm which is why the song appeals to me. Suffice to say , the Amadeus nails it.
I can't add anything to the discussion about appearance or construction/ marketing although it does look better in real life.Like others , I'm not sure about the hooplah about a "Precision " golf ball , but the thing works.My only slight concern is the fixed mounting arrangment of the carts which may prove an issue for some but on the carts I'v tried with it, no problem. Is it the best table I've ever heard- no , but it isn't the worst either.It's just a very very good table , at a not ridiculous price ( in $ NZ).
Cheers

Martykl I would agree with you on some points. But I will say and in your own words when a "high school project" trashes an $8,000 dollar table. Then we must reevaluate most high end tables and arms, and then consider why a pioneering product such as the WTA with it's precession perfect sphere golf ball. A product in my mind that took alot of and no pun intended "BALLS"" put into production.That is going to kick many of the same mega buck table's and arm combos that now have to justify there cost.

>>02-15-09: Jallen
Do listen to the VPI Scoutmaster, it is truely spectacular<<

Well that's a boatload of hyperbole so let's be realistic.

It's a competent table, but hardly spectacular.

Schipo,

I merely said that it (i.e. the exposed bearing) LOOKS like a high school project. Hide the damn bearing and pass the additional $2 worth of plastic collar costs along to the consumer! While you're at it WT Labs, cut the crap and acknowledge that the cost of your arm bearing is <$2 and pass that savings along to the consumer. When that is done we can admire the product, but still chuckle at the idea.

BTW, they might want to consider a more colorful model name. Too bad "Milky Stork" is already taken.

Marty

The basic Amadeus is app $2500 (if I got it right as the value I saw for the NZ dollar is app 55 cents). Since the 'table appears to be a basic unsprung design that is nicely finished (and more than enough has been said about the economics of producing the arm) the price feels about right vs other 'tables out there.

WT Labs has a good rep for resonance control so I assume it's a strength here. The motor/controller appears to be a small, integrated unit that's hard to comment on without further info, save to note that it's probably inexpensive relative to the stand alone motor/controllers used in some other (usually costlier) 'tables. Ironically, the arm is likely to be a major point of differentiation.

I'd actually love to hear one of these and, until I do, I'd never write this product off as a potential value. I just wish that it had been handled a bit differently. It would be difficult to imagine actually buying one in it's present state - For me, anyway.