Low Cost Turntable - Incredible Performance

@richardbrand ,

I think a Jag going 4000 km without breaking down is about as likely as a $299 turntable sounding "incredible"! 

May I ask, are you of Irish descent?

@lewm 

The treatment of cogging is either to use a lot of poles, so the impulses are very closely spaced, and there are other tricks of the trade that address the timing, all of which are very effective in rendering cogging inaudible

I have given a plausible (to me at least) explanation of when cogging may become audible even if it is virtually unmeasurable.

Take the Wilson Benesch Table One system as an example.  They claim wow and flutter is unmeasurable.  The direct drive motor is 15 inches in diameter, weighs 14-kg and has 21 poles, but nevertheless it does exhibit cogging to some degree - I’m not saying it is audible!:

The OMEGA Drive is a slot-less synchronous motor, delivering vanishingly low torque ripple and precise speed stability. The RMS value of the torque ripple is 0.001342 (N.m). The torque ripple includes all the components (like cogging torque and the current commutation and air-gap flux harmonics)

I am very sorry I encouraged this. We all like what we have. And although I have chosen DD and Idler drive as my drives of choice, I have also heard many wonderful sounding BD TTs.  So we can all be friends.

@thecarpathian 

May I ask, are you of Irish descent

The only bits of me that are remotely Irish would have been assembled from Guinness molecules! 

The British car industry was doomed by its reliance on electrics from Lucas, known locally as the Prince of Darkness

@fa8362 and @richardbrand ​​​​​​, his use of "your" was correct.