Yes, only rich, white, Europeans can be racist. Get real. This isn’t the forum to be virtue signaling about your Marxist ideology. Lots of good people buy high quality watches.

I’ve made my own using pucks, fabric furniture pads, and blue tac. Seemed to do the trick under my TT.

Yeah they are. I wanted to get them off the ground a bit more but retain the angle upwards.

What did the speakers sell for?

Marantz have always had decent phono stages in their integrateds. you’d have to spend a lot more to achieve significantly better results. Best to just upgrade your cart or stylus.

Those are in no way audiophile.

If you have the money why not? No different than collecting watches, wine, art, cars etc. All those hobbies at one point lose rationality when it comes to cost.

Id love to like them more, but every one of their models has a design detail that ruins it for me. They can get the watch 90% there, but never hit a home run design wise. IMO anyway.

Tudor BB58, damn near perfect watch and a strap monster. Goes with just about any outfit and can take the beatings of daily life.

Pearl isn’t as versatile as you think it it.

Best looking watch of the past 25 years imo.

Perfect size for a dress watch imo.

As much as I need to as long as I don’t lose much on resale. Nothing better then wearing a nice watch for a year and then selling it for more than what you paid. Free hobby.