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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: An interesting TT link: belt drive
Post Subject: A belt drive? Why only….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/30/2013
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Yes for sure it is very nice and “polite” link with pleasant information, not completed information however.  There is another aspect. The wonderful benefits and advantages of belt drive (and particularly with heavy platters) are well understood but so far no one ever was able to prove, or at least demonstrate more or less sensibly that belt drive is advantageous for turntables. In contrary if you see people who tend to use idle wheels then they bring a lot of reason way idle wheel is “better”, the direct drive people do the same. Even in the clan of belt drive people there are those who claim that multi-motor is the key, the sliding belt is the key, the super light or super heavy motor is the key, the servo-motor is the key, an external gyroscope is the key and many other believes. All of them are valid believe but I did not see any attempts to generalize and prioritize those ether believes of misconceptions.

I personally do not feel that any drive methodology is fundamentally better. I think within any topology there is good implantation of given topology and bad one. What makes a TT to sound good is mystery to me. I am ignorant person who not suppose to know why a TT sounds good. The problem that I see is that even those who suppose to know why a TT sounds good and bad in my view are also clueless.

So, as illustrated page depicting a few keystone belt turntables the link about is fine … but it truly does not say anything more.

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