Hello Mike and Steve,
Without being indelicate, may I point out that both your turntable thingys with multiple arms and multiple delicately balanced needles cost, well… a lot compared to many other “really good sounding” turntable thingys, in a manner not too dissimilar to the way in which the JMF, and likely, the Atlantis will of course, cost multiples of many other, lesser-priced “really good sounding” CD and SACD spinners.
Were we to reject a product based on price differential alone, it’s likely none of us would own the systems we do. The high-end is merely a misspelling of diminishing returns, is it not? Yet in order to extract the highest possible engagement with our inanimate objects of desire, we gladly pay the premium for SOTA technology to spin a medium long-considered “dead” and certainly inferior in resolution as measured in bit-depth against more modern formats.
If we love music as much as we say we do, and are prepared to fork out first-world fortunes for a 12” medium spinner in which the inconvenience factor is apparently not enough to deter us, why would we not want to do the same for one of, if not the richest sources of music whatever genre, sub-genre or beyond one could ever wish to listen to?
The joke about vinyl being dead has never been less true. And certainly, the number of manufacturers who have been part of its resurrection in attempting to produce SOTA components is only increasing. It is possible, perhaps, the this is the hour of the CD, and like many other technologies that were abandoned before their zenith (yes, we’re looking at you, vinyl and R2R), the time has come to see a new level of engagement extracted from a medium much-maligned and considered “redundant” but still without question, containing some of the finest performances never put to any other format?
Just a thought.
Be well!
853guy