Munich Hi-End

[krenzler]

The Rockport Sirius III cost $73.750 back in 2000 which amounts to roughly $110.000 in todays US money.

https://www.stereophile.com/turntables/258/index.html

 

[sq225917]

What gear? I think that's a stator

They've taken the technics; then stuck a noisy gear inside it.

 

[mik bhavnani]

The Rockport Sirius III cost $73.750 back in 2000 which amounts to roughly $110.000 in todays US money.

https://www.stereophile.com/turntables/258/index.html

Knowing a little about the turntable and what went into it and the way the project actually lost money you would be looking at more like 5 times the cost. The Rockport system 111 sirius has no dealer or distributer margin what so ever.

 

[PerF]

Where is that? How do you get there by public transport? I heard about it while at the High End show but could not find the info...

http://www.hifideluxe.de/

 

[GT]

Projects like the turntable from WB are made just for promotional and company profile purposes. Just more audio willy waving...

 

[Tony L]

Part II of Michael Fremer’s report is up. He cocks the mic settings up somehow early on, so a fair amount of silence for a while, but it comes back.

SME can be heard talking about the new (actually entirely original old stock) Garrard 301 and their plans for the brand around the 30 minute mark. Basically they are initially getting into the very high-end refurbishment market, making a lovely plinth and have later plans to some as yet unspecified deck under the Garrard name (Fremer didn’t ask whether it was an idler).

 

[sjs]

A couple of people I know well who were there said the best sounds from Munich were coming from horn based systems...

I would tend to agree with that

 

[krenzler]

SME 12a in grey looks lovely.