Y'know, all these turntables with weird looks and weird designs are essentially BS. Just like most other audio components, turntables shouldn't sound very different from one another (if at all) - if they do then there's something wrong with them. This brings us to a fundamental issue in HiFi audio - that what's being sold to the public is much more to do with brand identity and product differentiation that it is to do with true fidelity performance. If a manufacturer is selling products based on looks or by virtue of having a "special sound", it's purely because they're trying to carve out a market niche for themselves - it's got nothing to do with true fidelity performance. Such products are generally very expensive to boot.
Rabid audiophiles don't care about the law of diminishing returns. At a certain point, you're paying way too much for very little appreciable improvement.
