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In the Thread: Rim drive?
Post Subject: Rim drive turntables and the rest of them.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/28/2011
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I do not have any opinion about rim drive, idler drive, belt of whatever. Sure we can extend out theories but in reality we still do not know what truly is responsible for Sound. I am very sure that if to have purely sonic objectives then any type of the driver might be good. How many people drive own TT to the level of perfection of given selected capacity? Not many. Unfortunately TT manufactures “perfect” the TT only up to the moment when industry’s former TT marketing campaign do not generate sales and the industry whores invent a new campaign around a new TT idea. If you look the history of popular TT for the last let say 20 years tan you will observe designs that were pulley driven by marketing BS and as soon any TT idea hit run time then any farther concerns about perfection of design ideas and implementation directions were abandoned.
Anyhow, I have no problem with Rim drive turntables but I do have problem with what I see in the picture. It looks like rotation stop by shutting down the motor and the axis of motor does not get removed from a rubber rim. This is horrible as with a few days the rubber where the motor touched the rim will sag and form a microscopic indentation, similar to the capstan and pinch roller in reel to reel machines. I see absolutely no mechanism to remove motor from the rim in the depicted TT.
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