Having missed out on a (rather expensive) Raven A C recently, I'm re-evaluating the Dais, preferring its accessible British manufacturing base and value for money aspect.
However, There are three things I can't quite get my head around.
Its somewhat top-heavy and rudimentary (agricultural?) appearance, being mostly platter and little plinth,
its enormous mass of steel in close proximity to high quality moving coil magnets (Tom F only played with moving magnets, I gather), and
that you have to start (and presumably stop) the platter by hand; if you're right-handed, as I am, this tempts fate with the stylus, I feel.
Any owners out there care to pour scorn on the above caveats, please go ahead; I'm listening.