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Legno Luxury Turntable

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From the same folks who brought us the elaborate Lusso turntable comes another luxury turntable that is a little less extravagant in design and price. Koetsu USA has created the Montegiro Legno Turntable, a spare and modern combination of wood and high-grade steel. It has a bamboo-clad chassis and the turntable has four rounded steel feet with rubber O-rings. The tonearm is a10.5-inch model specially modified for Montegiro. It sells for $13,240 and comes in white or bamboo.

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The $64,000 Turntable

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The new Gabriel turntable will likely cause as stir at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. The turntable is made by Italian company Angelis Labor and has been manufactured in an Italian Ferrari parts manufacturing factory in Modena, Italy. it is a a magnetic suspension record player constructed by overlapping bronze over aluminum and is composed of three parts - the table and base for one to four arms; the 13-inch arm; and the cartridge. It costs between $27,000 and $64,000.

[via Wired]

Gallery: Gabriel Turntable

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The Diamond Turntable by Schau

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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German brand Scheu Ananlog seems to have gone to the "marketing to ladies" handbook with their DJ equipment aimed at women. It's called The Diamond, it has a website titled LadylikeScheu and it's pink.. Not just pink but that particular carnation shade so beloved of cell phone companies and producers of feminine hygiene products. Get past the pink though and the Scheu Analog is simple and yes, sexy.

And don't worry it comes in more colors than pink, actually a lot more and in fact the wood grain version and the black version are not girly at all. British singer, Katie Melua, who became the first official owner of a Diamond turntable chose the black one for herself. I'm not sure how successful it is as DJ equipment but designwise, it rocks. The Diamond sells for 3,900 euros.

[via Shiny Shiny]

Gallery: The Diamond by Scheu

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Lusso Luxury Turntable

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

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Just a few days ago my mother and I were talking about an old turntable at her house, and how none us of use it anymore. Well, if I had the Lusso Luxury Turntable, I would be willing to put away my CDs and iPod, for a few days at least, and dig out my albums.

Designed by German outfit Montegiro, the Lusso is marketed more like a European sports car than a piece of DJ equipment, according to Crunch Gear. This beautiful piece is built upon alternate layers of aluminum and black acrylic, including the topsy-turvy cone for the aluminum platter fitted with an acrylic platter and driven by a newly-developed, precise, high-end synchronous motor suspended within one of the cones. The connected cones have height-adjustable feet for set-up.The tonearm is carbon. All this works together to bring you -- are you ready? -- "a perfect world of sound: Between precise, crystalline highs and weighty bass is a generous, softly melting midrange that helps produce an ideal, musically balanced turntable."

The base version has three cones, a 10'' carbon arm from Da Vinci (model Nobile), the MG1 from the Montegiro family and a state-of-the-art pickup-system in titanium. The top-of-the-line model comes with four cones and two tonearms and includes a 9'' SME, model 5009 tonearm.

This musical piece of art will set you back €30,000, or about $47,000.

Gallery: Lusso Luxury Turntable -- Break Out the LPs

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Spin That Vinyl For $150,000

by Anton Friant (RSS feed) —

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Now that all of you audiophile hipsters are throwing your iPods away for fancy schmancy turntables, super-upscale manufacturers like the German engineers at Transrotor are starting to catch on. The Artus is their flagship turntable, a $150,000 behemoth. And yes, there are digital ins and outs, so you can throw your vintage White Album LP on your new blinged up KRZR. Check out more at the Transrotor page if you read German.

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Turntable Ring

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Designed by Jacob & Co jewelers, this 18K gold Turntable Ring features an arrangement of black and white diamonds that make up a tiny turntable. The accessory could be a good one for a musician or a music lover, but at $12,900 it's probably going to end up adding some bling to the hand of a DJ or used as an engagement ring on an appropriate reality show.