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It has a brass deck with significant extra damping, fancy tonearm, special direct drive motor. There are plenty of decks in that price range. I would like one but won't pay retail. Not sure if there are people out there spending significant amounts on decks with small record collections but that wouldn't make much sense to me. On the other hand if you have a lot of money in records this might not seem like such a big outlay. Will last a lifetime too.
Marginal gains innit :)
They do come up second hand below that price. Is it just that they've released a black one? I've only seen the silver ones in the last few years.