Is Direct Drive Really Better?

The Technics quartz locked lathe is the standard.

I have sensed for a while now that there is a definite revival of direct drive in the works

Guess who's one of the main characters...yours truly!

http://www.kabusa.com

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Direct drive or die.

Direct drive TTs and belt drive digital: my ticket to high end salsa music reproduction. My KAB modded Technics 1200 and Modwright modded Parasound belt drive transport are great performers in any league.

Curiously enough, I ran into my father's friend who introduced me to high end when I was in high school. I was telling him about my KAB modded Technics 1200. He had to admit that selling his Technics SP-10 for a SOTA vacuum was a mistake.

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If this DD revival stays I'll be selling my modded 1200. Why? Because Matsushita will start making the Technics SP-10 MK IV !!! Oh man, a 10-12 lb copper and aluminum platter w/ 24 pole linear quartz lock DD brain--and a home made Caribbean Moca wood base. YES!!!

DIRECT DRIVE OR DIE.

For people like Raoul, don't forget EMT idler drives.

Good enough that a direct drive offering from Teres is in the works.

I've said before and it is in the archives: the Teres is a direct drive in drag.

With psychic power and primal intensity,

Direct drivers - like Psychic animal - continue to declare DD the best, in the absence of having heard idler-wheel drives, though they feel free to make use of my findings and reasoning, to defend their own system, which they have invested in.

Johnmathias,

My first TT was an idler wheel drive.

So much for trying to be a *psychic*.

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This is good!

Now THAT's not good. Rewind.

This is good. Real good.

NO! Just PLAY records, people!!!!

Yet to be addressed is the subject of quartz lock. Quartz is an alchemist's dream come true. Quartz has no comparison to a wobbling belt nor the brute force exercised by an idler wheel rubbing against a platter.

Quartz *resonates* electrically, giving timing and life to both man and machine. Quartz is a source of true metaphysical finesse wherever it's used.

If any of you guys would meet me in person and looked at the palms of my hands you'd understand. They are completely red from using a huge white quartz crystal for meditation and meridian resonance stabilization. My life force is distributed and timed with the help of quartz.

Has anyone seen those little quartz plum bobs sold at incence stores? I can place the center of my palm directly under the plumb and as I concentrate the plumb rotates faster and faster in ever increasing circles.

Now think about turntables...

With psychic power and primal intensity,

My goodness TWL, get a shotgun if you want to go hunting. Linear quartz lock DD tables don't 'hunt'. They just PLAY records!

Zikes, I watch women's palms to see which ones are red. Vitality *is* a good thing to have...

Eldart, good to 'see' you!!!

Now Zikes, wait a minute. What's this "objectionable in some states" crap? Wasn't them minutemen (ie, founding fathers) who:

1) brewed their own beer,

2) grew their own hemp (and smoked it),

3) rode on horseback bearing guns & knives and

4) went back home to their favorite imported (and paid with hard currency) curvaceous African women?

Man, surely no one asked me to become a guerilla fighter in order to live like that! I *might* have joined in...

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Direct drive or die.