How do you explain slow/lazy sound?

I asked that question because I set up a second turntable just for fun... My main rig is a Musichall 5.1 with Goldring 1042. I bought a Pioneer PL-12D on Ebay and installed a Shure MX97SE just for fun... And the Pioneer didn't sound bad, but the only way I could describe the sound is "slow". I was just curious why it sounded that way and what is the physics behind it.

-Jeff

Possibilities.Inadaquate conditioning/isolation for the preamp. Likewise for the digital.

Incorrect absolute phase is a possibility.

Assuming you are only hearing this "slowness" with TT and that speed of TT has been adjusted to strobe, then the "slowness" may be slurring caused by transient speed instability endemic with cheap belt-drive TTs.

This is primarely about the equipments powercircuits ability to "breathe". Powercircuit starts with powercords and ends in speakers voicecoils. Can`t be overrated!

The problem has two sides; speakers and amps. First we have amps with tiny underdimensioned powercircuits struggelig to beathe through heavy passages. Then we have speakers with even more underdimensioned passive filters threathening to shortcut the poor amp.
And on top of this the poor amp is given some tiny overpriced stranded or flat "wires" as a extension of it`s allready tiny powercircuit.

Tips: Avoid complexe passive filters, avoid speakercables, go for monoblocks. Powercords w.o extensions, heavy solid-core speakercables.