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Guy,

I do not know about the multi-drive TTs. Personally I have suspicion but this suspicion based mostly on my prejudice and my wishful thinking then on the facts. Whatever TT’s with multi-drive I have seen did not impress me, and, what was the more important, the way in which the system’s owners were approaching or were thinking about analog generally did not thrill me as well.

The low tension belt drive although it has own issues, but all those issues are resolved when you go for a very large platter mass. With a larger mass it is not necessary to create any fantasies, theories or logic and the tremendous mass along with a natural inertia make all “issues” negligible. This approach is just more convincing for me…

Also, and it is kind of ironic, but it is difficult to make bad performing heavy TT. I am not saying the a light TT can’t not be good but with a light TT there is always an opportunity that the particular TT was not made properly (let pretend that someone knows how to build Sound instead of implementation of a non-necessary relevant engineering logic). With a have TT, if one resolved a problem with suspension and bearing the even morn can build them and the will sound quite appropriate.

BTW, may I ask you about the “booms and colorations” you associate with the “typical high mass designs” or why you presume that the “booms and colorations” were the properly of the high mass platters but not the thousands of other more prosaic reasons? Usually the “boom” is something that first go away with a larger mass…

Rgs,
The Cat

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