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Post Subject: I have my doubts about big turntables.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/22/2019
I is interesting that most of the “expensive” TTs, with a difference
to a degree of Continuum go for just one topology: mass loading. Yes back a Lechitsky
with a bunch of math and theory was postulating that belt drive is fundamentally
less advanced transfer faction then idle roll. The guys who were running EMT 92y were very
happy. I do not know if the Lechitsky “theory” was accurate, and I have my very
high suspicion against any “theory” that clown was selling. What however was very
truthful in his saying the any belt topology progressively get better transfer
faction with rising the platter inertia, momentum and essentially mass. So, if
we have a graph of rising mass, rising platter manufacturing cost and rising quality
then somewhere it will be a very nice sweat spot. I do feel that somewhere around
the mass of Micro RX5000 and no air suspension the TTs perform at the level that
more sophisticated than 99% of the setups out there. The old RX5000 was in vicinity
of a $3K and in my view it is how a good TT should cost. If people have VERY
high demands for LF reproduction, have a playback that can handle it, are
looking for a specific type of LF and have evolved understanding HOW LF should
sound then those people might demand some extra quality from TT but they are is
very low minority, we are talking about a few people around the world… and they
are not those who pay $250K for a turntable.
I do not have a super sophisticated playback, I have smart
playback and I have well defend objectives of what I want and how to hear when
I am listening. Still, having in my estimation a well performing installation I
very much insist that the level of my TT performance is not something that even
remotely bothers me or make me to look somewhere else. If I willing to invest let
say 100K to improve sound then TT will not be a suspicion factor or a target of
my attention. What I am trying to say is that I never make a secret that THE ONLY
sensible rational for any person to change anything in his playback is to exercise
this principle:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=432
So, I really would like to see the indomitable pimps like Mike
Fremer and alike to proclaims the their current TT does not do this or that and
in order to eliminate that precise shortcoming they need another TT.
Also, I have a very high certainty that many sonic characteristic
that commonly attributed to expense TTs are in fact is not the characteristics
of the actual TTs. I feel that type of LF is different between large and expensive
TTs but it need to understand (at least it is how I feel) that it is not that
one is necessary one is better and another is worse. It is like the type of
bass you get from exponential upper bass horn vs tratrix. They have different
bass but neither of them are limited factor and might be worked out.
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