RMAF 2011 – ONEDOF turntable

ONEDOF makes a turntable, which debuted last RMAF and is produced here in Denver. It lists for $150,000.

I listened intently to this system to try and hear what the turntable was doing – what it sounded like. Considering that, for example, how hard it is to tell the difference between a 6C33C-based Lamm ML2.1 amp and a 211-based Audio Note Ongaku integrated on the Sonus Faber Stradivarius speakers [our customer could hear no difference and Neli had to struggle to hear a difference] I think these wonderful sounding speakers are not the most revealing speakers in the world. The other components were perhaps not the most revealing either and, cutting to the quick, I could not hear the particular sonic characteristics of this, what could be really great, turntable.

That said, I took a lot of photos while I was there 🙂

That gold metal is…uh… real gold.

The record is held down by a clamp and a very substantial ring.

The ring picked up some fingerprints, so they wiped them off – but fingerprints are kind of just going to be on a turntable ring while you are actually using the table [between playing session one could presumably polish it so that it looks perfect when not in use].