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Seems to me that it's all gone a bit 'serious' on these forums. As an attempt at a remedy and as a potential excuse to celebrate our love of HiFi, how about some visuals? Y'know, the stuff that sets the pulse racing.....whether or not you think they'll sound like hell.

I'll start it off with these beauties:

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Phwooaarrr!
 

matthewpiano

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I still love the look of this:

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Wish they still made these.
 

andyjm

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I am a big fan of Tesla and the concept of an electric car. Replacing hundreds of moving parts in an internal combustion engine with a signle moving part in an electric motor.

Looking at these turntables (particularly the Thorens which looks like the innards of my washing machine) reminds me how far we have come in hifi by moving to digital sampling.
 

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