Henry, You are in Positano? A very attractive women whom I met on a train only two days ago was on her way to JFK airport to catch a flight to.... Positano, Italy. Look for her, very short blond hair cut like a man's, mid-40s, the rest of her definitely does not resemble anything male. Of course, now I remember that there may be a Positano in Australia, given that one of my best friends has a summer home in Sorrento, near Melbourne.
Aigenga, I hate myself for taking the bait, but the fact that an idler drive sounds best in a well-designed plinth does not make it inherently inferior to other drive systems. Other drive systems present different unique issues that also have to be dealt with. Also, what I was trying to say about belt drives, however badly I phrased it, was that many current generation belt drives could be said to follow the no-plinth dictum but in fact they do have very elaborate underpinnings. What has been done away with is the wide open deck surrounding the platter. Losing that deck seems to result in a more open sound, possibly because it reduces direct reflections of sound energy emanating from the stylus/LP interface. (That's completely off the top of my head and possibly complete BS.) I think that's the major benefit of what you guys are doing, getting rid of the open deck. It's what I liked about Nottingham Analog tts. Yet in the last few years, the conventional plinth has reappeared among mainstream (i.e., <$10,000) belt drives. To wit, the VPI Classic, Well Tempered Amadeus, etc.
