[Phono-L] Best-sounding phonographs?

[Richard Rubin]

Here's a question I've wanted to ask everyone here for a while, now:  
Working off the assumption that Victors are the best-sounding phonographs 
(which seems to be a general concensus -- please feel free to disagree, 
though), who would you say made the second-best-sounding machines?  Since we 
need to compare likes to likes, let's limit the field to inside-horn, 
pre-orthophonic disc phonographs.  What do you think?