Doing things the hard way.
I did a lap of the Audiomart and found an icon of turntable, errr craziness?
This is a Michell Transcriptor Transcriber.
This is a linear tracking turntable. Rather than move the tonearm across the record it moves the record under the tonearm. Pause and think about that.
Transcriptors are belt drive so this must move the platter and a motor and a sub-chassis on these rails.
I had a Transcriptor Skeleton TT for many years. It was a piece of kinetic art, but only a so so music player. That was due to the support of the LP which did not suppress plasticy vibration. This could not be better as it shares that. Add the extra bits and mechanicals and it must be worse.
Performance takes a back seat to weird design concept.
I recall the glass lid on mine made a bong sound if you tapped it and on mine the tone arm was not bolted to the glass lid. It is like at every step of the design process the worst possible method was chosen.
I remember reading about this when I was in school. My friend who had a Transcriptors and I both thought no they can't be serious.
It almost seems like this was a bet made in a pub. "Oh no you can't." "Oh yes I can!"
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