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So does this mean one is a foolish vinyl fan if they've spent 10k on a turntable?
The SP10 was THE only turntable on the first Absolute Sound list of recommended components way back in the 70's when the magazine began.
Right before DD got popular again, they were pretty cheap on the used market.
They are still cheap on the used market.DD hasn't gotton popular again, the audiophile chatters brings up the prices of the selected few DD, not all. DD still being sold at thrift stores for about $20.00 top.The prices for the "audiophile" quality belt drive turntables in the 80's were not affordable enough to most, at the same time people are dumping their lps. Then the Wall came down, the West hooked up with the East and started making affordable "belt drive" turntables there, hence the resurgence of the vinyl. Audiophile could listen to vinyl on an affordable decent belt drive.Audiofools didn't stop there, they started trumping up the DD, well, "what models should we trump up, I've got it, the most expensive model by Technics, which one, the SP-10, woohoo." There you have it, a SP-10 that the fools are willing to pay 10k for. No difference than paying 10k for some patch cable.
Strange outlook. The SP-10 is a classic broadcast table. The MKIII is super rare. It's a collector's item and a damn good table. What's your problem if somebody wants it for $10K? There are all kinds of expensive toys out there. There was a Kenwood LO-7D on there for $6K for a long time. The price came down and it was gone. How about a Goldmund Studio for $5 - 6K? No good? You got something better for around $5 - 6K? Some glorified rubber band drive? Woohoo Wish I could afford a Teres Certus 440. They start at $14,800. Woohoo!!!http://www.teresaudio.com/certus.htmlneo
Sorry, but you're way off base on the SP-10. You will never find one for 500 bucks. An SP-10 mk.2 still stands up well at $2-4k against comparably priced new tables.Anyone who takes an SP-10 of either vintage to a pawn shop is pretty clueless.The Nak Dragon TT is going up in price because of its collectibility, but not that amazing of a table, sound wise. The smaller Dragon can fetch about 12-1500 and the big one three times that. The smaller one is really the bang for the buck model, but these tables have been easily surpassed by todays stuff. Even an SP-10 offers better performance than either of the Nak tables.
Dang, if I thought my Kenwood LO-7 was gonna appreciate like that I never would've gotten rid of it. That is absurd I hope you know.Hold the phone. I'm confused. On second thought, my table was a KD500, I think. The LO7's were mono amps and I do still have those.
>>>>Top models from the 70s command high prices among audiophiles simply for nostalgic reasons (see above).Good transcription turntables like the SP10s or the big Denons offered without a plinth are still a reasonable deal at around 400-500 bucks as many audiophiles seem to shy away the work of builing an own plinth for these decks. Right now the SP10Mk2 seems to be the audio-bargain of all times when it comes to set up a top analog-frontend.The big prestige-decks like the Nakamichis or the Goldmunds won't get cheaper, too. Many audiophiles recognized that today there isn't anything quite equal to these decks.<<<<Extracted from the article. The author sort of agrees with me that audiophools like them for nostalgic reasons, and they are worth about 400-500 bucks. They are still too rich for my blood at that price, I'd say they are worth about 200 to 300 bucks max, more like 200, if you took it to the bald headed guy at the Pawnstar show, I think he'd give you $75, because he'd probably need to sell it for $300 to make a decent profit.No mention of the sonic performance on those DD in the article.
