Holbo Mkll Airbearing Turntable

MUSIC SOURCES TURNTABLE OF THE YEAR OVER $10,000 From Slovenia comes the latest edition of Holbo’s sole product, this turntable that does a number of things notably differently. It has only three legs. It keeps its branding to itself, presenting a plinth unadorned other than by buttonry. Its tonearm is very obviously not for pivoting, but adopts the linear tracking method which should, if successful, more closely track the information put into LP grooves by the lathes which, after all, cut the master discs using the same linear tracking motion. But perhaps most unconventionally of all, this turntable arrives with an offboard box which is not an isolated power supply, nor an offboard phono stage, but an air pump. It’s proudly branded “Holbo Air Pump”. This is required because Bostjan…

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