We don't cover turntables much, but the new Koma from 47 Labs is just too damn cool. Here's their briefing:

Two solid aluminum platters, suspended by powerful neodium magnets, rotate opposit direction eliminating wow-flatter inherent in the conventional single platter design. The resulting low noise floor gives you an incredible resolution you have never heard from an analog playback.

It just makes sense, no? Shocking someone hasn't done this before. The rubber band actually runs both platters, wrapping over a little wheel on one end to provide single, uniform tension over both platters.

47 Labs, if you're not familiar with this brand, is what happens when Japanese engineers become audiophiles. Really innovative digital gear, 47 Labs departs from the rest of the Japanese hi-fi crowd and focuses on tiny watt solid state amplification and tweaky CD players rather than tubes and analog. The Koma is their first TT and should get the vinyl heads at TAS and Stereophile rioting. Pearson frothed during his review of the PiTracer CD player, the $25k digital extraction unit.

Likewise, the Koma is not cheap at $10k. That Transformers tonearm is the Tsurube and goes for $2k. 47 Labs also makes their own super lux cartridges, spanning from $3250 to $7500. The rest of the 47 Labs line isn't that expensive, with their famous GainCard amp starting at $1500. Check 'em out.