November 8, 2006 6:00 AM PST

The $150,000, quarter-ton turntable

by Mike Yamamoto
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$150,000 turntable (Credit: Hiendfi)

With a name like the "Transrotor Artus," this contraption sounds like a piece of heavy machinery that might be found in an assembly plant. And by the looks of this photo, it almost could be.

But closer inspection of the top reveals the real purpose of this erstwhile bucket of bolts: a turntable. And not just any old record record player, but an "LP player/phonograph/grammophone" that goes for $150,000, according to Hiendfi, and weighs nearly a quarter-ton. Maybe it's priced by the pound.

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A Sensible price for this product
by HorizonDataSys March 22, 2007 2:03 PM PDT
Only a pretentious doofus ("Oh, the sound quality is *so* much bedda, y'know")keeps vinyl in the age of CDs, DVD, and HD/BueRay. So t's priced at the doofus price.

Makes sense. About as much sense as a quarter-ton turntable.
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by make_or_break May 13, 2008 10:25 PM PDT
Well, donchaknow that they based the price on the length of the name of its genotype?


Really...it's true...would I tell a lie?

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