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In the Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People
Post Subject: Turntables MotorsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 11/9/2012
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| … It is known for years, that the Raven has problems with motor(s) and is highly colored in reproduction abilities… |
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The subject of Turntables Motors is very tricky one and it turn out that Motors do affect sound very dramatically. I personally do not think that they do but I did not make any experiments with it as I always used Micros and never needed to play with motors.
However I knew a guy a few years back who decided to manufacture the best sounding TT in the world. It was not a stupid ambition of his and he took the project seriously, consulting and testing from a lot of different directions. Interesting that after a few months of experiments when I asked him where he was standing in his project he informed me that with no financial limits in his project he can’t not find any maker of a good sounding motors. After long search he was able to find a party of vintage motors, reportedly made by Germans for old studio film machines, which according to my guy were absolutely astonishing for TT. They were very large and very ugly but he insisted that they are unique in terms of sound.
In a few years the project of that guy did not go through and he had a party of the motors on his hands. I decided to get one of them from him, juts a back up if my Micro will go down. He sent me the motor and the invoice for $800 – a ridiculously expansive price. I know that he did not make money on me and give to me the motor at it’s cost. This made me to pay a lot of respect to the subject of motors in TT as I concluded (looking at the straggling of my guy) that good TT motors are super rare thing.
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