On b12's feng shui approach to buying a turntable. b12 is currently considering buying another turntable and has narrowed the choice down to 3. He's equally satisfied with their sounds so he's decided on a feng shui approach to choosing the final one. Since he is Metal (Jing), he doesn't think he needs more metal in his life, so that may safely eliminate the turntable made totally out of aluminium (which I'd have eliminated anyway if it had been me, cos the darn thing weighs 30 kg). The likely victor then would be the wooden turntable which has bits made from ceramic, and this ceramic is the same material as that found in space shuttle cones. Seems like space shuttles returning to earth would encounter great heat resistance upon re-entering the earth's atmosphere, so their cones are made of special ceramic to stop them blowing up.

Sometimes I can't believe the weird stuff my friends know.