Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm

Is one TT type inherently better than another? I see the rim drive VPI praised in the forum as well as the old idler arm. I've only experienced a direct drive Denon and a belt driven VPI Classic.

rockyboy12-01-2012 4:47pm

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halcro Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,664 posts 02-11-2013 at 03:42am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Didn't Goldmund use the JVC/Victor motors?
dover Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,237 posts 02-11-2013 at 05:19am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Richardkrebs - Is this the Papst or JVC motor ? Can you explain how the speed sensor works in the Goldmund Studio.
richardkrebs Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 422 posts 02-11-2013 at 04:11am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Halcro Yes it is a JVC motor. After I sold my Goldmund, I had plans to build a TT based around this motor. It was an easy purchase from JVC in Japan, at the time. The project was shelved after further research on motors.
lewm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 12,876 posts 02-11-2013 at 02:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete So, Richard, are you inferring that the GP Monaco claims for the speed of their speed correction system are not so earth-shattering or envelope-pushing as one was led to believe, given what Goldmund did two decades earlier? The Reference was always an awesome device in my book, but the Studio, which I actually got to listen to, underwhelmed me.
ebm Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,311 posts 02-11-2013 at 05:36pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Belt Drive get a TW Black Night.

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