[ScottW]

Jenn wrote:
In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Harry Lavo" wrote in message


"Vintage Lovers" will disagree with me, but the direct
drive tables of the 70's/early 80's, while beautifully
built, were often sonically inferior to good belt drive
tables such as those manufactured by Linn, Ariston,
Thorens, etc.

Belt drive turntables have an inherent property that endears them to
"audible differences" addicts like Harry. The belts all slip. Without
constant monitoring, belt drive turntables play LPs at different speeds.
That makes them sound different, just pleasing the "It all sounds different"
bigots among us.

Direct-drive turntables are bound and determined to play recordings that the
same speed, snip

They are also bound and determined to be noisy.

Noisy? In what way? I've had a number of belt drive
and direct drive TTs and none had any audible rumble or wow or flutter,
which is the noise I would expect to hear from a faulty drive system.

In my experience, the
current crop of turntables costing less than $400 sound better than the
massive-based DDs of yesteryear.

I suspect that is all arm/platter resonance improvements and has
little or nothing to do with the drive.

ScottW