A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Dear Peterayer, yes, I have read the technical description - as far as available - about the WK NVS. It will certainly get some following in the audiophile community. Especially so as it is one of the very few new "serious" direct drive turntables out there.
Cheers,
D.

Dear Halcro, this statement of yours

in principle, I am against any turntable which sits on 'springs' as this almost certainly invites the turntable to 'move'.....possibly laterally as well as vertically?
All belt drives which have a solid foundation at least have a chance of extracting some reasonable information from the grooves.

is a very dangerous one.
It is neither backed up by physic laws nor by technical knowledge.
Engineers involved in electron-microscoping or vibration-isolating would rather tell you that it is vice versa ....
The "solid foundation" of an "unsuspended" turntable is a plain illusion.
An - well applied !! - isolation from building resonance by means of a suitable spring (rarely done in analog tts) is the only way to achieve undisturbed extraction of the encoded groove.
Problem here is, that most spring-systems in turntables are so unsuited to the task.
Put your AC3 on a Minus-K which upper payload meets the mass of your full mounted AC3 and your jaw will drop to your very knees.
You will immediately hear, that so far you heard only 80% of your AC3s potential.
Promised.
I will buy the MInus-K + shipping from you if you do not hear what I promised.
Cheers,
D.

Dear Halcro, Your opininon re 'springs' imply that those
expensive AT footers under DDTT make no sense?

Regards,

Are these some inventions in TT design or not?
everyone may judge on a personal bases:

➢ Nested Platter Design using  new proprietary formula for Magnesium Alloy. 30kg Mass of platter assembly 330mm Diameter. ➢ New MILSPEC Alloy used for highly damped platter ballast. ➢ New Fully Sealed Self Lubricating Highly Damped Rigid Bearing Design with Inverted 30mm Bearing shaft of special alloy running in ultra hard steel bushings. ➢ Vacuum Rotary Feedthrough for main bearing with low friction polymer seal. ➢ Massive Highly damped Magnesium Alloy Chassis with internal ribbing Shape Optimised for new bearing platter assembly using www.advea.com Reshape(tm) software. ➢ New Motor Technology Linear 3Phase AC - 24Volt DC Brushless design with integral optical encoder for motion control. Proprietary DSP software designed for ultra-low cogging and torque ripple with speed stability of 0.006%. High Torque 600 oz/inch capability continuous. ➢ 33, 45, 78 with wide range adjustment and absolute lock. ➢ Motor is Belt Drive using Pyrathane precision oring. ➢ New Vacuum Pump design with Stealth Mode Operation. Designed for continuous operation but quiet enough to house in room and in rack. ➢ New proprietary design Pulse Removal and Echo Filter System (PREFS) to remove platter to record vibration signature of continuous vacuum pump systems. ➢ New Decoupled Armboard design using Magnetic Stabilisation 

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Dear Peterayer, as for the Wave Kinetics NVS - yes, I have seen the pictures and have read the description given by the manufacturer.
Being one of the very few serious DD turntables in recent years, it will no doubt get some following in the audiophile community.
We can expect to see many owners of Technics SP-10 mk2/3 kind of "move up" to the NVS if budget permits.
Will it live up to it's "promises".
We'll see whether we will still talk about it in 2-5 years.
Cheers,
D.