Traditionally, there has usually been an inverse relationship between performance and features in separates hi-fi. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the humble turntable. Look at all the best-sounding options below the £1000 / $1350 / AU$2100 mark, for example, and you’ll invariably find them to be fully manual decks.
In many cases, these decks will take things to extremes and even demand that the user manually moves the drive belt from one step of the motor pulley to the next to change playback speed from 33 1/3 to 45 RPM.
