[2bigears]

  hello AC gals and gents.  Does anyone have the know of the $ 3500.00 Mag-Lev TT. It has such great features and is totally interesting. Just discovered this tonight looking around on the screen. 

[toocool4]

I saw and heard it at Munich High End show back in 2019, it looks interesting but it’s not ready for prime time yet.

[Rusty Jefferson]

There's at least one thread here about it. It was largely a failure. Hundreds of Kickstarter backers lost their pledges when the company reorganized several times. The reliability seems to be very low, and parts/service problematic. You can read through the comments from the last few years of development here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/245727224/mag-lev-audio-the-first-levitating-turntable/comments

[2bigears]

  thanks for the info. A little far off yet by the sounds. But there is a dude saying we will live on Mars soon ,,,,haha. What an idiot.

[levvel]

Cool, but it really needs a magnetic levitation tangential tracking arm.

[kd4ylq]

My early Mapleknoll turntable has an air bearing for the massive platter and an air bearing linear tracking arm. The arm has a magnetic counter balance system with a big knob on the deck that lets you adjust the tracking force while the disk plays - the one thing that I thought was really cool. Emminent technology took the air bearing arm idea and developed it to a very high state, but I don't think it had the magnetic counter balance capability. My Mapleknoll has been in storage ever since the original air pump died and I haven't been able to find a worthy replacement, so I'm done with vinyl. Worth considering is that a magnet system has to be very accurately mapped & adjusted for a constant field strength over the service length needed - not trivial!

[ketchup]

Check out the La Platine if you're into magnetic levitation:
http://www.jcverdier.com/ADSL/PLATINE_VERDIERphotos.html