"Ayn Marx" wrote in message
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
PS: On one point I think we'd agree. To achieve decent outcomes in
something like analogue engineering processes, such as the design and
manufacture of say, a turntable/arm/cartridge that's state of the art,
large amounts of money must be spent.

The engineering per se is not expensive. It has long, long since been
reduced to practice, documented, discussed. There is nothing
proprietary or radical about it. The best example is the Linn Sondek,
essentially a uprated, better made version of the JFK/MM era AR
turntable. Any patents ran out decades ago.

If you are implying here that Linn's turntables are still state of the
art I'd suggest you are behind the times.

Isn't state of the art and turntable an oxymoron?