Has anyone had trouble with speed on their tt


I was having trouble with speed stability on a very expensive dual DC motor top of the line system of a well known brand from England. It was a terrible fight for years, I would get some good days and then the temperamental thing would drift or even radically switch speeds ending my listening session. I now have the perfect system and wondered if we could discuss this for other audio enthusiasts' sake.
zenbret

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A very sensitive topic. Most owners don't want to know that. There are a few discussions about drifting Turntables (especially when the Sutherland timeline is used). You find for example for a lot of turntables huge owners "recommendations" but this chapter is completely denied. Based on my information, most of all modern turntables (no matter which pricing) can't hold proper speed. The reason is very simple: Maximum Profit. If you look at it from the pure standpoint of an engineer without any audio perspective – free from audio pre-knowledge and history - learning from scratch about mechanics and static and dynamic behavior in moving objects, you’d find that a lot of designers have simply not done their homework.
Who is interested to tell others "Hey, I spent 35k for a 3 motor unit but it runs wrong each day differently?" It is much more easy to keep the own "reputation" as a "serious, experienced audiophile" and say "Mine is right..."
I think, you won't get much - honest - answers. That experience - or learning - is something you will have to do on your own ...