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Does anybody wit 'til late at night, believing the AC is better then?

Posted by mr.bear (A) on January 8, 2017 at 11:53:17

In Reply to: RE: turntable performance and platterspeed posted by ecl876 on January 8, 2017 at 10:45:21:

I think there may may be cases of Audiophilia Nervosa, curable only by the $30k SuperPlacebos found in the Stromtank. I choose not to reflect on the demonic specter of micro-micro speed fluctuations. But I may be spoiled because my direct-drive turntables, all my life, have had INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA COST regenerated motor drive power.

Quoting no less of a luminary than Harry Weisfeld: "I believe direct drive is the way to go when it's done correctly. I've always been a huge fan of the concept, but you can't get a belt or a pulley perfect, no matter how hard you try. A belt-drive turntable consists of multiple mistakes and you're always dealing with multiple tolerance errors. Direct drive eliminates these issues." My feelings precisely.

Sure, DD tables also comprise multiple mistakes but I too am very sensitive to PRAT issues and I find, in a sweeping generlity, DD tables by far the most listenable combination of design tradeoffs / mistakes. Yes, I have heard *cogging*-- in DD tables where the motor drive is failing. In a properly operating DD table the speed servo is pure analog and operating in real time;the phase-locked loop allows for no possible cogging.

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