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Sooooo Thorens just announced a new table.
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Erm.... are uh... Thorens you okay? You guys going through some things right now?
The new Thorens T2 Edition

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I wish I still had Armatron. My father wouldn't allow any of my action figures to have guns, I had to throw them all out. So they all had to be really proficient in karate. But when Armatron entered the scene everything changed. Now they could be super villains who would pick up their foes via Armitron with alarmingly slow imprecision and rhythmically turn them upside down and bonk their heads into the ground in order to further their fiendish plot of world domination. It was awesome.
 
But it’s also not in that it’s symmetrical, it’s balanced and it isn’t tacky in anyway. It totally does look like a deck pulled from Clavius Base.

It’s not my taste or preference for a turntable either but I don’t think that means it’s ugly.
yeah, it looks like the type of turntable someone who also owns a 3D printer would purchase.
 
The thing with Sutherland is that like no one in Canada stocks it! I don't know why but it's no where up here.
If you can’t go Sutherland, I’d suggest Bryston. I have the older BP-1.5 which is phenomenal. The BP-2-20 MM/MC is the contemporary equivalent. It requires a separately priced power supply which jacks up the cost to unreasonable levels in the US; maybe a better deal in Canada. Worth at least giving a demo run.

 
Regarding the ADS, I’d totally upgrade from the Aria before buying the speed controller. The speed stability on the Classic is very good without the ADS and I’ve never experienced any true inconvenience moving the belt from one level of my Traveler pulley to the other except for … when I forget to move it back to 33.3!

The essential simplicity of the deck is made more complicated by the ADS; potentially another component to have problems versus just a motor.
 
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