Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition

The plodding sound of high mass turntables. That's a first. Never heard those two associated that way before. Certainly no one who has ever heard mine has said anything like that. And after 20 years, you would think someone would have noticed. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 

Yes, Millercarbon, high mass does result in a certain sound that one can easily label as "plodding" or "boring" or "dull". I have had the opportunity to use three different platters of drastically different mass on my restored and hot-rodded 301-the original lightweight platter, a 35 lb solid brass platter, and an alloy with copper top platter that is about ten lbs. Each produces dramatically different sound with the light OEM platter being the most lively, fast, and dynamic. 
Don't you think [realize] that the rest of us are tired of your claims that if we were only to come to your house Tekton Moabs would be seen in all their glory, that the clouds would open and angels would descend, and that the true glory of perfect home audio would make itself apparent to us mere mortals? You must be very lonely. 

Naim was always a strange company IMHO. We got some of their electronics in to sample way back when and I thought they were tinker toys, expensive tinker toys.

@rossb, no big surprise. I keep telling everyone that bass with unipivot arms is always challenged to on degree or another.

@chakster , I wouldn't call it awful. In typical Naim fashion I would call it an over priced tinker toy with a funny looking fat latter :-)

Plater 

fsonic, Your little experiment with a single idler-drive turntable and platters of different mass does not "prove" that high mass per se is the cause of a "plodding" sound, whatever that means to the author.  It only means that you prefer the lighter platter on your Garrard.  It is only information useful to you with your turntable in your system.  Furthermore you fail to mention which platter, if any of the 3, was OEM to the 301.  The 301 drive system was probably designed with a particular platter mass in mind; it would not be surprising if heavier platters would overload the drive and cause a sense of dullness or plodding or that a lighter than original platter might enliven the sound.  But I couldn't say that unless you were to reveal which was the OEM platter.  However, I hope you see my point.