"If you want to buy a direct drive turntable you might as well buy a digital front end - its the same sound."
That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard! Just because a TT maintains perfect speed as the better DD tables are prone to due doesn’t make it sound digital.
Bill, I totally agree with you, ABSURD. what a lack of understanding displayed by that statement.
Not really.
Direct drive turntables use error correction, which includes jitter, they do not maintain perfect speed.
One could argue that digital format development has vastly outpaced the antediluvian error correction systems used in old direct drive turntables, and for this reason you might well be better off with a digital source.