alexberger
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| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? I had Nottingham Analog Specedeck for 8 year and I have EMT 948 since 2011.The difference in sound quality is huge for EMT. I have a friend who had: EMT 948, MicroSeiki belt drive and Technicks SP10mk2. He liked EMT and MicroSeiki, but didn’t lik... | |
| Tone, Tone, Tone ! I know Doug Sax used Altec 604E for monitoring with crossovers designed by his brother.These monitors where called Red Monitors. | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? The question is: How much will cost the belt drive turntable which outperforms EMT950?Yes I know. There are great belt drive TTs, like, Micro Seiki 5000, 8000, 3 motor Clear Audio, and others...In any case, all people who use these best belt drive... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? All modern Hi-End TT producers are small garage companies.They don't have enough money and professional R&D to design and build DD turntables.Relatively big Japanese producers like Audio-Technica and Technics can afford to build DD turntables. | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Some vintage DD are not mid-low END.For example, in 70x EMT950 costed 15000DM. It is around $23000 today.Studios and radio station bought EMT950 and not moron audiophiles fooled by advertising.These dumy audiophiles don’t want to see around. They ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Mid price belt drive turntables (like Nottingham Spacedeck) can sound generally OK.But what is mostly annoying for me, they broke a rhythm of music.For simple pop music it is not too important. Even there are some kind of jazz and classical music ... | |
| Help looking for dynamic warm romantic sound with detail It is my IMHO.All these modern main stream audiophile tower speakers newer sound really dynamic for my test. All this c%#p like "bass slam" sounds to me like compression.If you want real dynamic sound go to speakers like: Altec, Tannoy, Klipsh,...... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? My experience shows opposite.I have used Nottingham Analog Spacedeck with Spacearm for 8 year, when I compared it to my friend's Lenco L75 (with a simple RB250 arm).We played classical piano music, and I was shocked how much Lenco was more precise... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? In belt drive, fast spinning motor has vibration, rubber belt has compliance, and plus to it friction of a needle on vinyl in not a constant.You can get an ideal belt drive only in laboratory conditions.I like idler and good DD, but I hate belt dr... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Fremer is a salesmen, he is not an engineer. For most of audiophiles "DD sound" associated with Technics 1200. One friend of mine who had tens of vintage DD, ID and BD turntables in his home called Technics 1200 the worst DD turntable ever made."D... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? In 70x the best most talented engineers worked in analog electronic industry. Today best engineers work in Hi-Tech. Most of modern audio engineers are morons.Modern main stream hi-end went far away from live music sound to virtual synthetic sound ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? I can attest to the current crop of higher end belt drive TT using speed sensing devices to feedback to the speed controller so operating in a similar fashion to top end DD tables.A friend has exactly that set up on his table.How slow this system ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Is it interesting. Does any of these top Japanese DD turntables use similar EMT 950 system?DC motor with a very light platter and controller that use tachometer sensor and feed DC motor with PWM signal.As I know most of Japanese DD turntables use ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Here is an interesting site about DD turntables:http://www.edsstuff.org/dd_museum.pdf Here are their comments about Luxman PD-444: "Top-of-the-line Lux form the end of the 70s. Now this is a deck where you can mount your Fidelity Research FR66 or ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Hi @lewm ,I didn’t list all good DD turntables.But you can’t compare, for example, SL1200 to EMT950. They have a very different “hunting” design.All this Hi-End reviewers-sellers like Fremer try to sell belt drive "golden toilets" with cheap toy c... |