Let's See What Makes Your Vinyl Spin!

SnowmaNick said:
That’s gorgeous, but my eccentric ‘table choice as a convo piece is the Michell Transcriptor. (It was the table “Alex” used in Kubrick’s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange)

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Industrial design artwork right there.
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Owned this 'table in 1973 with an ADC XLM cartridge. Later saw it at the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, where it was a fitting example of modern industrial design. Hydraulic speed control and arm damping. Seriously prone to room feedback. The pictured version has the squirrel fiber record cleaner that acted as a second arm that traced the groove at the same speed as the tonearm. You can see its post in the front left corner of the plinth. A really cool artifact of the early years of what became the high end of stereo. When the room light was right and no disc on the 'table the sun would reflect off the six brass colored pods onto the ceiling of the room and create six elliptical rings that were almost as much fun as listening to the records themselves was. Psychedelic, baby, 1973-style.
 
OMC said:
Owned this 'table in 1973 with an ADC XLM cartridge. Later saw it at the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA, where it was a fitting example of modern industrial design. Hydraulic speed control and arm damping. Seriously prone to room feedback. The pictured version has the squirrel fiber record cleaner that acted as a second arm that traced the groove at the same speed as the tonearm. You can see its post in the front left corner of the plinth. A really cool artifact of the early years of what became the high end of stereo. When the room light was right and no disc on the 'table the sun would reflect off the six brass colored pods onto the ceiling of the room and create six elliptical rings that were almost as much fun as listening to the records themselves was. Psychedelic, baby, 1973-style.
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I’ve seen some people mod these out, including using a relatively this glass or acrylic platter, or changing the material used on the pillars to a softer, more compliant rubber. Overall, if I ever got one it would be as a second turntable in whichever system I could display it prominently in. A real conversation piece.
 
Nee Lewman said:
It’s neat looking, but does the record just sit on those 9 points of contact?
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Ten, including the center spindle area. The little circular rubber nubs that actually touched the record were always of varying height, even a replacement set from the factory made even the flattest record look like a warped, roller coaster ride. Mine had the triangulated feet rather than the spring-like arrangement of the top picture.
 
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