That is a crazy looking turntable. When I was in Japan we used to go to Hiroshima and peruse the stereo floor at dyechies (sp?). I remember they had high end turntables mounted in 3inch thich slabs of marble to "stablize" them. That store had everything from cheap walkman speakers (yeah, it was that long ago) to $50,000 speaker systems...they had some sweet Kreil (sp?) mono amps too.