Artemis/Schroder SA-1?

You might contact Frank Schroeder through HIS website, to find out about the Artemis. I agree with you that it appears/appeared to be an interesting design for many reasons.

Dear Notec, Don't leave me and the OP hanging. What noise issues? Surely if there were an issue of noise from the motor, it would be correctable and in fact quickly corrected.

CJ, Have you tried the Schroeder website and/or Schroeder dealers?

Notec, I don't doubt what you say, but that report is most surprising. What is there to make noise in a DC motor at idle? (Nothing, I think.) Is this hum you are talking about, audible over the speaker, or a mechanical noise? .

Notec,
Is that "mechanical dude", as in Robocop, or "mechanical, dude", as in The Big Lebowski?

If the motor made that much noise and was not grossly "broken", the company will have discarded it in favor of some other motor that does not make noise. To do otherwise would be corporate suicide in the highly competitive tt marketplace. Also, there are numerous superb aftermarket DC tt motors available to anyone. So I think that all you need to worry about is the choice of wood and whether the turntable is still being made at all.

Now I find myself in sympathy with Notec. The capstan is the single truly unique feature of the turntable and highly desirable for its effect on belt creep. Any number of tape recorders use such devices and on any good RTR, they are silent. No reason to tolerate a noisy capstan, so far as I know.