.... I also very much like that in their turntable, ... using both a heavy platter and a quartz locked controlled motor.
Are you talking about the outer platter or the inner platter?
That is a rhetorical question.
I just got a kick out of their describing it as such. Perhaps it will make sense later when they get specific, but for now I feel pretty certain that these are probably two separate pieces that get physically locked (glued, welded, bolted, etc) to each other so as to effectively become a single platter, but you know how those guys in the marketing are...
. Of course, in the end 15+ pounds of platter is a good thing!
Another place that got my BS meter twitching:
A patented acoustic absorber helps “revive the original presence of the music” by eliminating the need for sound-absorbing material...
What genius - to replace the
sound absorbers with
acoustic absorbers!
I'm sure (at least I hope) there is more to it than that once we get details, but in the meantime I'll entertain myself on how marketing makes something that is well developed technology seem like it has a bunch of new and clever breakthrough technology that is of crucial audio significance!
Whenever a company releases an over-the-top high dollar product like this, the marketing department is tasked with communicating what makes it so special and I like to think there are a few engineers and marketing guys giggling at the creative descriptions they came up with - I'll giggle with them!
@PENG , when they speak of a floating ground, does that mean more than saying it is designed to use a two prong power cord?
Is this really likely to be something special?
On a more serious note, it seems strange that they did not go for a few more watts for the amp. I am sure it is a very well designed amp and is tremendously reliable, but it just seems like they would at least add another 50 watts to it. I mean if I was a customer playing at this $ level, I would not want to second guess whether I had enough power for my exotic speakers and 100W is a standard AVR power rating, I'd want to throw a few more thousand into an amp that offered the comforting assurance of more power.
Yamaha states that they developed these units to be used with one another in which case I'd expect 100W is plenty to power their speaker, but surely they are interested in selling these units individually! Otherwise they should bundle it and sell it as a $43,000 SSoP (Stereo System on a Pallet)!
