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https://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/1229-musical-fidelity-m8xtt-turntable

The M8xTT is not a forward-sounding turntable, but it is a bit larger than life in all directions. Just to let all the haters know that I’m not stuck in the music of the last 40 years, I threw on Vladimir Ashkenazy’s 1973 recording of Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in G Major (London Records CS6820). I chose this record because it’s so huge, so massive—a piano piece that slows time down in a relativistic manner. I was spinning in orbit around the planet that is Ashkenazy’s piano, and the clocks run slower up there. The entire first movement, “Fantasie,” is an exercise in slow-motion capture—huge piano notes that swallow galaxies, with Ashkenazy carefully considering each key before he depresses it.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/audio-note-tt-one-deluxe-turntable

The Audio Note TT-One Deluxe turntable’s price tag — which, all-in, with cart and arm included, is around $6K — might make your eyes water, and your bank account cry. But for those of you who crave the raw, unadulterated humanity of music and for whom perfectly relayed vinyl playback is a language understood more in the heart than the head, the Audio Note TT-One Deluxe is sweet surrender — a revelation. As my stepfather — a man more comfortable with the NASCAR roar than a Stravinsky concerto — might have put it in his gruff, entirely un-British drawl, “That there’s a honey.”

https://www.hifinews.com/content/denon-dp-3000ne-turntable

On the album’s title track, which is a simple vocal piece with minimal instrumentation, Harriet’s vocals were clear, lifelike and projected wonderfully out into the room. The echo picked up from the recording studio was almost uncannily realistic. The DP-3000NE doesn’t throw images extravagantly wide or into the far distance, instead being content to offer a properly ordered soundstage within the confines of the loudspeakers, and out into the room by a well-judged amount.

This presentation might lack the initial pizzaz of some competitors but, ultimately, it affords better focus on the subtlety of a recording. At the same time, while the DP-3000NE seems a paragon of sophistication with high-quality material, it also proves more than capable of thundering out thumping dance beats, such as ‘Padam Padam’ from Kylie Minogue’s Tension LP [BMG 538927931], with heady abandon. A direct-drive turntable with a lack of ‘drive’ just doesn’t seem right – fortunately Denon’s DP-3000NE is in top gear all the way.

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/audio-note-tt-one-deluxe-turntable

The TT-One isn’t about pyrotechnics — it’s about musicality. Unlike some equally expensive, more trendy tables, it prioritizes natural rhythm and warmth over artificial bass bombs. This is a turntable for music lovers, not bass junkies. Audio Note poured decades of expertise into this machine, resulting in a sound as captivating as their higher-end offerings. Just like a complete Shindo or Luxman system, the TT-One Deluxe delivers a signature sound that’s pure Audio Note — and a pure sonic delight too, for that matter.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/technics-grand-class-sl-12001210gr2-record-player

GR2 technology improves on our coreless story by removing even more micro vibrations and making way for improvements in the power supply,” wrote Technics US Business Development Manager Bill Voss, by email. “The progression from the legacy models to the new coreless models, which utilize higher tech and materials like magnesium in the G-model tonearm, zinc and special gel in the footers, and higher-grade plinth designs and improvements in tonearm sensitivity and ease of cable connectivity, laid the groundwork for audiophiles and allowed us to develop the more affordable, deejay-specific 1200MK7 and mainstream 100C/1500C models based on that technology.” As Voss mentioned, the GR2, which is built in Malaysia, features a new power supply, which the company calls “Multi-stage Silent”; it combines a “low-noise, high-speed power supply working at over 100kHz and a noise-canceling circuit inherited from our reference class SL-1000R turntable,” according to the Technics website. “This circuit measures the level of minute noise in the regulator output and cancels the noise by adding its inverse component current to the output,” Itani wrote. The website again: “By this method, a very low noise floor is achieved, enabling exceptional signal-to-noise ratio, improving the overall signal performance.

https://www.hifichoice.com/content/edwards-audio-tt4

Talk Electronics, Edwards Audio’s parent company, has invested heavily in machining facilities for its Surrey-based factory and is as proud to thump the ‘made in Britain’ tub as it is willing to take the Pepsi Challenge with any competitor on the matter of which sounds better? Running with the theme, the TT4 is, if anything, a still punchier prospect itching to chop down some popular big hitters – as it needs to be, of course, as counting on patronage solely because it isn’t a Rega or a Pro-Ject ain’t gonna work.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the slightly more expensive Rega Planer 2 and Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo to hand for comparison, but by pitching the TT4 against the considerably more expensive Rega Planar 6 (HFC 427) with Ania moving-coil cartridge (HFC 452) and Neo PSU as well as MoFi’s terrific StudioDeck +, we should get a reasonable idea how that contest might have turned out.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/gold-note-mediterraneo-x-record-player

The motor is one of the X’s most interesting and distinctive features. “For the Mediterraneo X, we chose a variable-torque motor, which allows the listener to control the torque applied to the platter in real time and while spinning records. A high-torque setting results in a performance reminiscent of direct-drive, while a low-torque setting is more in line with the sound of the belt-drive. The motor is decoupled from the plinth through elastomers, and secured in the housing with an aluminum bracket which is also decoupled thanks to custom spacers made of resin.”

The motor is supplied by Johnson Electric of Hong Kong. “We have been using their motors for turntables for years,” David Scandagli said. The Johnson motor drives a belt made of EPDM. Finally, three tanklike adjustable feet are CNC-machined from solid aluminum blocks.