[Jenn]

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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in
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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.

Then avoid the noisy ones.

I do.


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

Well they surely do sound better if you think that playing a LP at the wrong
speed makes it sound *better*.

Or if you like the sound of music. I have what is popularly referred to
as "perfect pitch", and I've never detected a speed problem on any belt
drive turntable that I've owned. If you detect a speed problem with a
modern BD turntable, it's broken in some way.