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Well, this is one of those things where it comes to what is hype and what the accountant sees at the end of the year. I didn't direct my comments to any specific manufacturer because it becomes a "who ya gonna believe" thing.

We've seen it all before. Not from you, but ....
The manufacturer tediously comes back on, and cites his glowing career and committment to all things audio, points out that he's constantly upgrading everything in the purest of brotherly devotion to his valued customer, hints at dark skies looming if his point of view isn't hypervalued and fawned over, and ---- just swears he's put way more in than he's ever going to get back.
Just the kind of manufacturer-guy he happens to be, in contrast to all those other avaricious ones.

With scary but inevitable promptitude, suck-ups, hangers-on and sycophants immediately jump aboard to admire and praise the tedious manufacturer guy. (Coincidentally, you can see that just below, if you look........)

"Who ya gonna believe ?" The internet poster guy, or the Audiophile Designer guy. So I didn't put it that way.

But the two iterations we've seen of rim/idler, where in fact a motor that's pretty much already on the shelf ( in your case ...."Verus was born out our attempt to make the Certus technology more affordable. It uses the same type of motor" ....is a quote )---

Have been underwhelming, by the look of things, to say the least.

A separate motor-pod standing next to a turntable platform designed for beltdrive, and yes, leaning against it ... doesn't say much for a design. If there weren't Emt's and Garrards out there to look at, that would be one thing. But these designs are all in the public record and the two current stabs at rim drive are, again, underwhelming.

As a fan of rim / idler drive, I look to the inspired manufacturers of today to take it up a level, to use materials and tech that would impress the designers of the Emt and Garrard. What we've seen falls into, as I've said, a risk-averse, jump-onboard-the-idler-train before it leaves the station strategy ..... with off-the-shelf componentry and really uninspiring, banal design, at that.

J.D.



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