Milan, thank you for posting that link. It was an interesting read. One of the claims in the article caught my attention.
“The Sati with massive GROUNDED bearing design went deeper in the bas, had much more body and all decays been easier to hear. All the Exotic bearings design just sounded THINNER, lighter and brighter.”
I directly compared the American Sound AS1000 to The Absolute Nothing turntable. The former had better weight, body and mass than any turntable I had heard before, and the ladder improved on those qualities by quite a bit. I’m not sure I would describe the bearing as exotic, but it is not grounded in the sense that the Sati turntable is. In other words, my experience has been just the opposite of what is written in that quote. There are many factors at play, but one of them is the platter mass.
There is an ease, a rightness, and an impressive amount of information in these American turntables. There is a very low noise floor. I think a large part of that is not having a grounded bearing with contact.
It just shows that there are successful different approaches to the problem. Anyway, thanks again for posting the link to the interesting article.