Fern & Roby is a small company that makes idiosyncratic loudspeakers, and also two turntables. The pictured one asks $8,500; the one with a 30-pound solid brass platter asks $10,500. Both have Richlite plinths. The stuff (Richlite) is dead as all get-out, and at that price tier, one assumes that Fern & Roby could have chosen almost any material.
https://www.fernandroby.com/products/details/the-montrose-heirloom-turntable-1
I continue trying to work the angles to get a pair of demo loudspeakers built, one in MDF, the other one identical except for the cabinet being made out of Richlite; and I will post any developments as they occur.
amb,
john
https://www.fernandroby.com/products/details/the-montrose-heirloom-turntable-1
I continue trying to work the angles to get a pair of demo loudspeakers built, one in MDF, the other one identical except for the cabinet being made out of Richlite; and I will post any developments as they occur.
amb,
john
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I saw their TTs at Axpona a few years ago and was taken by their good looks. Can't really comment on the sound compared to the competition.
Richlite would be a contemporary realization of paper micarta, ie bakelite without the high phenol content resins. I cannot comment on the acoustic properties; but mechanically the material is very stable.