do you know your schiit from shinola?

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  • wkhanna
    Grumpy Old Super Moderator Emeritus
    • Jan 2006
    • 5673

    do you know your schiit from shinola?

    Etymology of "you don't know shit from Shinola":

    A colloquialism which dates back to the early 1940s in the United States, sometimes ended with "that's why your shoes don't shine". Shinola was a popular brand of shoe polish, which had a color and texture not unlike feces.

    like Schiit, Shinola is a US company (from Detroit) building its cred on 'american made', from sourced materials to labor .
    they started with watches.
    their latest venture is turn tables.
    specifically, the Runwell Turntable
    well, i would hope it does.....

    fact is they do not know shit from Shinola when it comes to designing analog spinners.
    another fact is that they where smart enough to realize it when they decided to jump on the current analog-resurgence bandwagon.
    so they went to VPI for design h
    elp along with advice on "local" outsourcing of subcontractors & materials.
    the end result is what i will call a re-badged VPI turn table that appears different from anything else VPI offers, at least on the outside.

    at $2.5k, it actually may deliver equivalency at its price point.
    but that is just a guess for now.....
    maybe i will get to hear one some day?
    i will be seeing (drinking) with VPI president Mat Weisfeld at this year's Capital Audiofest, so i will get the full story then.

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    Bill

    Practicing Curmudgeon & Audio Snob
    ....just an "ON" switch, Please!

    FinleyAudio
  • wkhanna
    Grumpy Old Super Moderator Emeritus
    • Jan 2006
    • 5673

    #2
    addendum to the first post:

    VPI is also an american based, home-bread & based manufacturer from New Jersey.
    Last edited by wkhanna; 03 February 2017, 17:11 Friday. Reason: added link
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    Bill

    Practicing Curmudgeon & Audio Snob
    ....just an "ON" switch, Please!

    FinleyAudio

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    • Hdale85
      Moderator Emeritus
      • Jan 2006
      • 16075

      #3
      Wow...that's a nice turntable, although $2500 is outside my reach sadly.

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      • Hdale85
        Moderator Emeritus
        • Jan 2006
        • 16075

        #4
        Originally posted by wkhanna
        addendum to the first post:

        VIP is also an american based, home-bread & based manufacturer from New Jersey.
        VPI you mean

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        • wkhanna
          Grumpy Old Super Moderator Emeritus
          • Jan 2006
          • 5673

          #5
          Originally posted by Hdale85
          VPI you mean
          fixed....ops:
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          Bill

          Practicing Curmudgeon & Audio Snob
          ....just an "ON" switch, Please!

          FinleyAudio

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          • Alaric
            Ultra Senior Member
            • Jan 2006
            • 4143

            #6
            Originally posted by Hdale85
            Wow...that's a nice turntable, although $2500 is outside my reach sadly.
            Not only out of my reach, it's out of my line of sight. LOL I clicked on their ad here not long ago and looked around their website. They are extremely fond of their merchandise based on the prices I saw. I'm not sure that $2500 wouldn't get you better sound somewhere else. At $2395, this http://www.needledoctor.com/Music-Ha...2&category=351 is no slouch. Then again, the hipster market may place a higher premium on aesthetics than I would. I tend to be more of a form follows function guy. That said, the Shinola is a beautiful TT, and if I could easily afford I might be tempted to display it prominently. I certainly wouldn't complain to Santa if one showed up under my tree.

            I love this thread title. Something very similar went through my mind when I first saw the ad at the top of the page. It's the main reason I clicked on it.
            Lee

            Marantz PM7200-RIP
            Marantz PM-KI Pearl
            Schiit Modi 3
            Marantz CD5005
            Paradigm Studio 60 v.3

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            • Hdale85
              Moderator Emeritus
              • Jan 2006
              • 16075

              #7
              As nice as the Music Hall stuff is, at that sort of price range I think I'd be looking for a VPI Scout but honestly that point I imagine there are a lot of options out there and I'm sure everyone has a different opinion on which is the best.

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              • Alaric
                Ultra Senior Member
                • Jan 2006
                • 4143

                #8
                I don't disagree on the VPI at all. The Music Hall was just an easy find for me while posting because it happened to be the first one I thought of. Lazy, more than anything.
                Lee

                Marantz PM7200-RIP
                Marantz PM-KI Pearl
                Schiit Modi 3
                Marantz CD5005
                Paradigm Studio 60 v.3

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