The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 23rd, 2021, 2:12 pm
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 23rd, 2021, 2:54 pm
That is seriously weird. It looks like someone's DIY project, not an actual marketed turntable. But I looked it up, and it was introduced in 1988.
David
David
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 23rd, 2021, 5:39 pm
I thought it was an April Fool's product. Like the Lirpa Labs stuff in the April issues of Audio magazine.
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 23rd, 2021, 6:38 pm
Glass platter, concrete plinth
RING, RING, RING
RING, RING, RING
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 23rd, 2021, 10:31 pm
Paul,
Don't disagree with you, though the term concrete is not very specific, you can have a polymer concrete that is pretty dead, in fact, it is used for shock and vibration isolation on machinery. Corian is an example of a polymer concrete, for instance, an acrylic/alumina composite. Glass does ring, as does alot of other materials, and often increasing thickness helps. Rega, of course, comes to mind concerning use of glass turntable platters, and at least the Thorens appears about 2X as thick as Rega platters are. But I suspect you are right. Not sure if this wasn't just a concept table, except that I have seen two photos each with different tonearms installed, so maybe they did sell a few.
David
Don't disagree with you, though the term concrete is not very specific, you can have a polymer concrete that is pretty dead, in fact, it is used for shock and vibration isolation on machinery. Corian is an example of a polymer concrete, for instance, an acrylic/alumina composite. Glass does ring, as does alot of other materials, and often increasing thickness helps. Rega, of course, comes to mind concerning use of glass turntable platters, and at least the Thorens appears about 2X as thick as Rega platters are. But I suspect you are right. Not sure if this wasn't just a concept table, except that I have seen two photos each with different tonearms installed, so maybe they did sell a few.
David
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 25th, 2021, 4:43 pm
I think that is sort of cool looking.
Re: The weirdest thing to come across the net today
October 25th, 2021, 5:38 pm
Looking at it, I thought...what if you made a turntable from a manhole cover? The base of the Thorens kind of looks like the top of poured cement sewer pipe for a manhole cover.