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RE: Interesting, but

Here are some contrary thoughts.

"In addition, your Verus motor has the advantage of simplicity & adaptability to a wide range of modern TTs that may surpass vintage idlers by virtue of modern platter bearings and superior resonance control associated with high-mass platters. Given the number of expensive models in current use, the compatibility of your motor with existing platforms is probably more of a contribution to the marketplace than would have been any "clean-sheet" design for a new TT."

... bizarre argument. A retrofitted aftermarket Add-On is better than a 'clean-sheet' design ?
Kinda like the way you can change your pickup truck into a camper if you buy one of those camper-top add-ons ?
Consider that an existing Beltdrive table may not be the ultimate platform-- it isn't--- to reconstruct into a 'rimdrive' re-think product.

If when used with a modern TT, your rim-drive approaches the speed-stability of a classic idler but is quieter due to the quieter motor in combination with a modern platter & platter bearing & plinth, then the Verus should help the average TT guy separate & understand the relative contributions of speed control and resonance control in his analog system.

If we may presume that by "modern" tables you mean something like the current Teres beltdrive, then you've got problems with this claim.
Two of them right off the top concern the High Mass Platter.
The sound and intact pacing of a classic idler has to do with a medium mass platter. Control and stability issues begin to get outsized as the platter gets outsized.
What was necessary to flywheel-stabilize a beltdrive design isn't necessary for the closely coupled idler style of design.
And those huge, dense, acrylic platters rob immediacy and punch from the sound, in my view.

Unfortunately for some forum posters, a mixed bag of plinths, platters, and motors will make it more challenging to propagate sectarian views.

Not sure at all what this means. Maybe I'm just not one of these 'unfortunate' posters.

It's amusing that given the attention to detail that's necessary for vintage restoration & for any analog set-up, JD doesn't accept the small burden of siting a separate motor. With an unsuspended TT on a proper platform, there’s no reason why a rim drive motor should be unstable relative to the platter.

I know what you mean here. This isn't a pursuit for those who can't reliably manage to get both shoes tied each morning.
But it's worth doing to say to those who would call themselves designers ... 'hey, that's not really a Design. And more importantly, that's no Camper.
That's a pickup truck with a camper-top thing screwed into the cargo bed. And that sucks.'

Your opinion may differ.

J.D.


.... I was cured, alright.


Edits: 08/16/07
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