DirectDrive Museum - Goldmund

Goldmund - located in Switzerland - made some turntables in the 80s that redefined the state-of-the-art. All decks featured here have direct drive starting with the Goldmind Studio introduced 1984. All decks featured motor-driven linear-arms developed by Pierre Lurne who later founded Audiomeca. All Goldmund-decks featured some kind of acoustic-suspension.

Goldmund Studio

Introduced in 1984 the Goldmund Studio was one of the few decks built in small numbers featuring the Direct Drive. Typical for Goldmund were the chosen materials like acrylic platter and plinth and the unique linear-arm. The T3 linear arm worked with an electronic regulation driving a motor (therefor the "second" arm). The price for the Studio was very high at around 7500,- Dollars so even now these decks are not cheap. Take care of the arm as it's quite fragile and very hard to adjust.

Goldmund Studietto

This Studietto belongs to Mr. Kostas Louizos. The Studietto is the little brother of the Studio but when introduced in the late 80s costed 4500,- bucks. For your money you got a very good turntable and a not so good linear-arm, the T5 which worked like the T3 but lacked a bit of bass. This is the same arm which was mounted to later Audiomeca turntables. You won't find good examples of this breed under 2000,- Dollars.