I never stay angry at anyone for very long. The TD124 sounds very much like an idler imho.
I don't claim for a second that my two vintage decks are much above an 8 on a scale of 1-10 as to the worst and best out there. In fact, I don't particularly like the clunky feel of engaging the drive lever on the Thorens and I grew up with the table as a teenager way back in the '70's. But overall I do love almost everything else about both decks.
But I have gone off topic. This was about high mass platters.
I don't claim for a second that my two vintage decks are much above an 8 on a scale of 1-10 as to the worst and best out there. In fact, I don't particularly like the clunky feel of engaging the drive lever on the Thorens and I grew up with the table as a teenager way back in the '70's. But overall I do love almost everything else about both decks.
But I have gone off topic. This was about high mass platters.