I am told that this Dereneville VPM turntable, by AV Design Haus, is priced at $650,000. Deutchmarks or dollars? Does it even matter?
Is this the most expensive turntable ever built? If it’s not, it probably was at one time. But with all that fine, precision German-built analog attention to detail, can it really compare to the ultra-high tech wonder that was my first record player ever?
Really, no amount of $650,000 high-tech inventiveness could ever create the thrill of discovery comparable to what I had as a kid plopping down this Power Records vinyl (see below) down on the Close ‘n Play and hearing the psuedo-Morricone Italian crime soundtrack music blasting out of those crap speakers.
I realize now that the music on the following clip was the gateway drug for my now-insatiable soundtrack collecting obsession when it comes to Morricone, Stelvio Cipriani, Piero Umiliani and others. Strange that you can pin down a lifetime of music obsessions to a single, very obscure record heard as kid:
P.S. The story on the Batman: Stacked Cards vinyl is HILARIOUS. Listen all the way to the end to hear Batman ruminating that a frontal lobotomy could return The Joker back to “normal society”! Hell, yeah–let’s save time and bother and lobotomize EVERYBODY!
–Joe Wallace
Well Joe, thank you for your attention.
This Turntable is only a technical-study and there is only this one built. 4.000 hrs of developing and producing cost a lot money. And only the material
parts, like the linearguides, all motors, the special developed electronic, HD-Camera and monitoring
and so on, costs nearly 200.000,–$ And until today I’m not shure to sell it, because its unique.
This machine is just a prototype and a guide for
a new vinyl cutting lathe, that I’m working on.
If you want to know more, write me an email.
Thank you, Rainer
It’s interesting that you mention it being a prototype for a vinyl lathe…I’m definitely fascinated by them….would love to know more about lathes you’ve already built or are planning to release soon.