magnetic drive turntables

Transrotor Orion turntable

This form of magnetic drive is getting more use in high end turntables, such as the Clearaudio Statement and EAR Disk-Master. I see it as a variation of direct drive, except, in this case, the subplatter is being belt-driven by three motors. In plain English, the top platter is magnetically driven by a belt-drive turntable at the bottom. Imaging replace the whole motor pod with a stator or direct-drive motor at the bottom, what you have, in essence, is a direct drive turntable. There are many possibilities in this implementation and it's nice to see some novel ideas.

Your thoughts?

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