Clear thinker, At least keep your prejudices vis a vis DD turntables straight. The phenomenon you describe and object to is not at all analogous to “cogging”. Cogging is an issue for all iron core motors; look it up on Youtube. Arguably the coreless motors used in some of the finest DD turntables do not exhibit cogging at all. You are objecting to the action of the servo mechanism to maintain constant speed. That is not related to cogging. On the other hand, most modern high end BD turntables incorporate some sort of mechanism often involving servo control of speed, to the same beneficial end. A few posts up this page, you can find Mijostyn bragging about what is essentially feedback/servo speed control of his SOTA Cosmos. I use the same devices made by Phoenix Engineering for my Lenco; the improvement is very noticeable and I would not be without.
Direct Drive
I am firmly in the digital camp, but I’ve dabbled in vinyl. Back in the day I was fascinated by Technics Direct Drive tt, but couldn’t afford them. I was stuck with my entry level Gerrard. I have been sans turntable for about 5 years now but the new gear bug is biting. I am interested in the Technics 1500 which comes with an Ortofon Red and included pre amp. I have owned Rega P5 which I hated for its speed instability and a Clearaudio Concept which was boring as hell.
Direct Drive was an anathema to audiophiles in the nineties but every time I heard one it knocked my socks off. What do the analogers here think of Direct Drive? I listen to Classical Music exclusively
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