[Mark Korda]

All right you old dubs,what turntable in 1977 literally floats in space and if you could see the suspension you would beleive that Jules Verne is alive and currently working for the (Blank)laboritories.Who is the blank?The turntable was 199.00 and featured (Gyropoise)tech...I can't spell it..good night...Mark K

[denjo]

J A Michell Engineering? The Gyrodec, featured in Kubrick's 2001 film "A Clockwork Orange"? I believe the 'suspension' technoloy dates back to the Saturn TT?

[neobop]

A Gyro for $199? I don't think so. Maybe you could get around 20 gyro sandwiches for $199. Maybe in 1977 you could get 30, but they weren't around. At least I don't think they were. 

The table in Clockwork Orange was a Transcriptors. I think it was the model called Skeleton.
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/Transcriptors.shtml

Michell took over the Transcriptors co. They continued the Reference model.
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/michell/reference-electronic.shtml

Take a look at this Transrotor. Pretty cool lookin. But it's $39K. LOL
http://www.vinylengine.com/phpBB2/album_showpage.php?pic_id=12401

1977, $199, looked like a flying saucer. Hmmm...... I think I saw that episode of Columbo.
neo

[timind]

A Gyro for $199? I don't think so. Maybe you could get around 20 gyro sandwiches for $199. Maybe in 1977 you could get 30, but they weren't around. At least I don't think they were. 

What do you think Aristotle ate for lunch?

[TheChairGuy]

I'm way too young to know any of this vinyl trivia stuff, fortunately

John

[Mark Korda]

Here is the answer.About 1976 or 1977 the turntable in question was the Stanton Gyropoise 8004-11.It had 2 oppossing magnets which create a magnetic bearing on which the platter floated.There was no friction,no rubbing of metal against metal,nothing to lubricate.The only connection between the turntable and platter was through the belt.It was fully manual and single play.Thanks guys...Mark Korda

[Toni Rambold]

... the tt Malcolm McDowell used in Clockwork Orange was a Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference Turntable: