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I got the new Teres Audio Verus motor this morning and except for a short break for lunch have been playing with it for the last eight hours.

The Verus motor uses rim-drive, dubbed “Direct Coupling” by Chris Brady.

I’m going out of town tomorrow morning but I wanted to post my early out-of-the-box impressions.

I have a Teres 255 with the Signature II motor, and a holographic mylar belt. For critical listening I unplug the power supply from the wall.

I left the Verus torque setting and spin-up rate as stock, but adjusted the speed down two ticks (~0.64%) based on testing with a strobe pattern per the included instructions.

From my “tasting” notes:

* clearer sounding
* slightly better resolution
* slightly better depth
* better separation of instruments
* more realistic tone, wider palette of tonal colors
* sounds more solid, can’t detect micro speed variations.

I’ve messed around a lot with the Sig II motor and various belts over the years and feel like I have a pretty good grip on a mild upper midrange/lower treble coloration that I can hear, that I concluded was caused by the belt drive. This shows up in the upper range of violins, for example.

Well, I’m happy to report that this minor glare is now gone.

Another reason I immediately ordered the Verus is that I’ve dreamed about such a motor because visually, to my eyes, the belt cuts the really cool 255 platter in two. How wonderful it would be, I ruminated more than once, if the belt didn’t hide the wonderful movement of the brass and lead weights in the acrylic platter while playing a record.

The belt is now history. Also, the svelte Verus drive unit is about half the size of the Sig II motor, and can easily hide behind the turntable. There is a separate well engineered controller box, and I am going to have to find room for that on one of my racks.

My speakers are flat to 30hz and then drop off quickly under that. So they don’t go super deep and I am not the best person to check for subsonic noise. But I heard no rumble or other weird bass effects -- just the opposite: the bass is better, more articulated.

My live-in audio control subject, Miranda, not knowing what changes she was listening to, in preferred the Verus in a short listening session. On Duke Ellington’s “Under Paris Skies” she said she could pick out the separate brass instruments based on their distinct tone and space in the soundstage.

It’s possible break-in will improve things , but I won’t know that for a while; I gotta go and pack for my trip…


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Topic - Bravo Verus - Cappy 18:07:22 07/25/07 ( 6)