Three closed loop motors and the linear tonearm control all movement where it counts most: at the tip of the stylus. The acclaimed AT Nude Shibata cartridge provides the built-in audiophile preamp with a precisely controlled signal. The unmatched stylus tracking and Constant Groove Speed are true turntable innovations, unique to Wheel.
There are adults, also old endless teenagers, old grumpies, and adults with a childhood mind.
I am in the last camp. Try hard to not finish an old grumpy.
It looks great, and reading the Kickstarter blurb quite some effort has gone into stuff like the tonearm. Doesn’t appear to be a toy, although that of course doesn’t mean it’s a great sounding deck either.
Absolutely. I think a lot of efforts and ingeniosity had been put into it. It’s a kind of technical art. Not intended to replace a real turntable.
The same was done with the Maglev turntable.
So anything that can’t beat a Linn is a record destroying toy? There’s plenty of turntables either side of them, so would be curious why they’re the cut-off point according to you?
And Linn isn’t exactly entry level, so most Project and some Technics and/or Rega turntables are destroying people’s records? Many members here would be horrified to find out.
And let’s not even go into the eyesight based quality assessment.
Not at all, I had a Thorens TD160S, with a Mission 774 tonearm, before I bought my LP12 over 30 years ago. Not much of the Linn is still there any more, though.
Whatever means of spinning records you choose is fine by me. Good luck.