Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers....

Hilarious input…. funny that a certain VERY highly thought of cartridge manufacturer in Japan utilize a Denon motor on a PBN Audio plinth….

I prefer the DP-75 and 80 and Peter rebuilds both for reasonable $. Add isolation and you likely have a fantastic high end TT at affordable $.

have fun, enjoy the music and the journey…..

@Mr Tweezer says "YUK".

Note: All three common types of Drives for a TT, are all equally capable of creating a replay, where the users who adopt the drive method are making it known they are quite satisfied with sonic being produced.

I own all three drive methods myself and have very enjoyable musical encounters when either is in use. I have come to the place today where I use one drive type more than another, but do not show prejudice toward either. 

I am aware certain Belt Drive TT's from commercial entities today are utilising a  Resin Impregnated Densified Wood, Panzerholz can be discovered in use as a critical material to create a design for a functioning TT.

Recently Linn has made it known of their usage of Panzerholz on their recently announced £50K TT. 

Panzerholz if proving not too difficult to utilised, has a place to be used on a Vintage TT, that will surpass the earlier materials used.  

The JVC QL7 may indeed be “demonstrably better” than the equivalent Technics or Denon, but, if they’re likened to the QL7, they’d be in the category of mediocre, compared to the best of the vintage Japanese DD TTs. The QL7 itself is far from the best JVC. Anyway, this thread is 13 years old.