A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Henry's stellar example shows that, with the help of a good machinist and some clever ideas, one can fabricate something equally beautiful (in my opinion, more so--the Davinci strikes me as ostentatious) to the ones he linked to. And given those eye-popping prices, one has a strong incentive to DIY.

Nandric: you got a Reed tonearm AND a custom pod for 1500 Euro?! It's good to be first.

Dear Halcro, I looked more cereful to my arm pod and am
very impressed with the looks of the granite parts. As
architect you should know if this material is suitabale for
an arm pod. It looks unvelievable beatuful.

Banquo 363, I am not sure but it may be the case that the
tonearm (12'') was 1500 Euro and the arm pod 500 Euro. Anyway not more than 2000 Euro for both.

Regards,

Halcro, your da vinci link reminded me of this thread.

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=97522.0

Would be nice to have this guys freind as a friend.

Brad

The Reed tonearm was an incredible bargain, even on this side of the pond, when it was first introduced. Then they evidently realized that based on performance it was under-priced. That, and also foreign distributors and their need for a separate profit margin entered the picture.

Just looking at the Da Vinci turntable cum armpods, I can understand why J Valin and M Fremer are big fans. Neither of them ever met a gilded lily he did not love. The more pompous, the better it must sound.

What are your thought's on a pod utilizing a cantilevered pivoting arm board ?

Contimplating this myself the arm board would be robust using select material which easily configured to facilitate tone arms with multi point mounting base or single hole mount with free space under the board for a heavy fasening nut found with some tone arms.

Further thoughts using a heavy pod, hitting the target for pivot to spindle set up must be frustrating nudging that heavy pod fractions of a mm.

Just my thoughts of the virtues of a pivoting arm board.