From Tri-Art in Kingston, Ontario:
A Serious Turntable Sports Wood (Bamboo Actually)
The $199 headphones designed by Chunbeng Quek who designs the $500 and under headphones for Sennheiser. Mr. Quek, who has his own design firm with offices in Singapore and Norway, is a part owner of Pendalumic. These headphones sounded very good especially given the price, though I don't claim to be an expert in this field. I have custom molded Westone in-ear phones that I really like but that's another story.
The story here is that while walking around afterwards I ran into Avatar Acoustics' Darren Censullo (Avatar distributes the insanely great iFi line) at a table on which was this wood+bamboo turntable from Tri-Art Audio made in Canada. It has a serious 3 phase AC motor, a nicely machined aluminum sub-platter and wooden platter and what appears to be a decent wooden tonearm. Price is around $1500. Needs to be reviewed!
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Well, take a look at their tonearm. It looks like a prop or a science fair project, the cue arm appears to be fashioned from a pants hanger, the whole thing is crudely put together. The loudspeaker specs and description do not make much sense. Their electronics have the look of generic products housed in bamboo enclosures. It may all sound good but the fit and finish do not convey much confidence!
Have you seen the set-up video (recently added to Youtube)?
It is lengthy but demonstrates the quality and care put into their products. Hand-made, yes. "Crudely put together"... I'm not so sure I'm seeing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CPiaflX34&feature=youtu.be
Check out the old Grado tone arm.
It appears to me that the amp and cd player "cases" actually form a rack that self-assembles with I guess the turntable on top.
Kudos to the design team, be interesting to hear how it all sounds.