Hey guys,
I just read the Dagogo review and the French Review of the new Merrill Williams Turntable, both of these reviews were raves.
The Dagogo reviewer relegated his trusty VPI TNT to the closet and the French Reviewer was equally impressed.
Has anyone here heard the table? According to Mr. Merrill the new Table at roughly $7,000.00 outperforms his older $24,000.00 Merill/Scalia MS 21 table which Stereophile gave a Class A rating.
I owned an original Merill Turntable in the eighties and George's design way back in 1982 predated almost every major turntable manufacturers adoption of many of Merill's concepts which he pioneered in the Heirloom:
He was one of the first guys to use acrylic for a platter.
to use a damped mat embedded into the platter
to use an outer damping ring and central clamp
to use a sophisticated outboard digital speed controller
to use a global view of energy management and dissipation in a turntable
to use a fluid damped motor
to use a polymer pulley
The original Heirloom was way ahead of its time, if you think back to 1982 the most popular table was the Linn LP 12, I don't think VPI was even started in 1982.
The new REAL Turntable uses a plinth made out of a rubber composite laminate that George claim's absorbs all the vibrational energy and turns it into heat by the energy absorbing plinth, creating a level of sound quality never before possible by using conventional materials.
All I can say after reading the website is this makes 100% sense and more mass and more money thrown at the problem may make it worse than this brilliant and simple rethinking of vinyl playback.
I ordered a table, what do you guys think?
I just read the Dagogo review and the French Review of the new Merrill Williams Turntable, both of these reviews were raves.
The Dagogo reviewer relegated his trusty VPI TNT to the closet and the French Reviewer was equally impressed.
Has anyone here heard the table? According to Mr. Merrill the new Table at roughly $7,000.00 outperforms his older $24,000.00 Merill/Scalia MS 21 table which Stereophile gave a Class A rating.
I owned an original Merill Turntable in the eighties and George's design way back in 1982 predated almost every major turntable manufacturers adoption of many of Merill's concepts which he pioneered in the Heirloom:
He was one of the first guys to use acrylic for a platter.
to use a damped mat embedded into the platter
to use an outer damping ring and central clamp
to use a sophisticated outboard digital speed controller
to use a global view of energy management and dissipation in a turntable
to use a fluid damped motor
to use a polymer pulley
The original Heirloom was way ahead of its time, if you think back to 1982 the most popular table was the Linn LP 12, I don't think VPI was even started in 1982.
The new REAL Turntable uses a plinth made out of a rubber composite laminate that George claim's absorbs all the vibrational energy and turns it into heat by the energy absorbing plinth, creating a level of sound quality never before possible by using conventional materials.
All I can say after reading the website is this makes 100% sense and more mass and more money thrown at the problem may make it worse than this brilliant and simple rethinking of vinyl playback.
I ordered a table, what do you guys think?