I’ve heard the Vertere Dark Sabre on a Selekt LP12 and it is stunning, but I have nothing to compare it against other than the Exact on my P3, not exactly a fair comparison.
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Typically the Sender has some meaning in mind but the receiver also and in many cases his understanding differs from yours.
No offence, but you post no picture of you REGA but always pictures of monster turntables that are maybe out off reach for you. Thus I‘d rather understand you as driven by optics and dreams for instance but not as an audiophile. Furthermore I didn‘t come over much Talking about music or the LP you heared lately, what would also make me Wonder about your second Definition of bering an audiophile 
What‘s the meaning of my comment?
It does not help how you are categorizing yourself and it does also not help to discuss topics based on artificially created terms
Don’t know if I have to respond, lol. But why not.
As I wrote, I am interested in the gear , design, and like to see different high end turntables.
I have posted my Rega 2 or 3 times. I don’t see a reason to post it more. It sounds very good but the look is nothing to admire. I dream effectively sometimes, would be glad to have the SME 60 or the Technics SLR 1000 for example.
For new lps, I rarely buy ones. Maybe 3 or 4 per years.
I am mostly discovering new jazz albums on Bandcamp , around 10 per month. I have posted a lot on London and UK jazz scene.
I don’t listen to jazz from the 60’s, so don’t share anymore on the jazz corner.
What are you listening…, the same. Too much Dire Straits or well known music.
As I said, I am an audiophile and a music lover.
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I’m sorry that my argument didn´t make it.
In our hi-fi bubble we always make the mistake of expecting a non existing reality; our expectation is wrong in various terms.
A musician certainly doesn’t want to tell us with his music that he can also play a triangle. However, audiophiles sometimes enjoy precisely this triangle and its sound and clarity.
This is consequently an indication of the inherent communication difficulties and is almost identical to the argument using made-up words such as audiophile.
However, it is not the sender who determines the interpretation of what is said, but only the receiver and that is what my post above was intended to show. You see yourself as an audiophile, but the recipients of this message may understand that completely differently.
P.S.: I´m tempted by Soul, Funk, Jazz. No Dire Straits and hardly no mainstream music.
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I think French Rooster is well known for showing both very high end tables together with completely loopy turntables that very few would aspire to owning . I look forward to his posts
His own system is very good
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I think we have just different interpretations of the audiophile term.
Having in interest in gear, audio reviews, forums, comparing components, trying to upgrade my system since many years, do define me as an audiophile. I don’t understand why so many here are bothered by this term. You look at it only in a negative way, which is not the only aspect of it.
But yes, there are many kinds of audiophiles. I am one among many many different ones.
There are music lovers who listen a lot to music, radio, concerts…but have a very basic and cheap system, sometimes only a radio and a tv. My mother is one of those. She plays the piano too. She is definitely not an audiophile. But who bothers?
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So let’s change the game. Here a turntable that many aspire to have or aspired before being able to buy one.
I wonder why nobody here owns a white lp12?
Funk Firm lp12. Picture from Hifi plus.
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To be honest I like most turntables! I do like a good traditional wooden LP12 as much as the next audiophile but really do like the new solid colour LP12s. I’d take a white one. I prefer the light blue one if there’s a choice though. I wouldn’t dream of depriving Ian of the yellow 
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and here it is -again
drool
Though I suspect if I ever bought it and showed it then several esteemed members will expire from spontaneous human combustion 
And to prove I really do like bright yellow , here is my conservatory
(sorry for shameless thread drift )
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An lp12 is indeed a cake, you can add some cream , fruits, ice, chocolate, or even gold leaves. They are named orangika, kreamika, chokolatika, and icephonik.
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yes
it’s quite tedious
Less perhaps than posting Fisher Price tts as P3
I wonder if that was part of the inspiration for Sir Jonny Ive’s limited edition Apple White 50th anniversary model? The armboard looks very ‘wrong’ without the Linn Sondek name and logo.
I greatly prefer a more traditional look.
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Erik, do you still have DBLs?
