Torqueo - any info or updates?

Thanks Chakster,

agree with the finishing and looks, isn't that one of the key trades of these Italians?! :-) 

My only worry (still is) is to buy something I haven't heard nor physically touched before. Wondering why there are so little reviews and people owning these beautiful machines, online...

The copper looks great!

The text on the website is not very informative, while on the other hand it says a lot. Only from the photos, it seems that this is an idler drive turntable, with the motor driving two idler wheels, one on either side of the motor shaft. each idler wheel must then engage the inner rim of the platter, although that is not clearly shown or mentioned.  I would like to know what Chakster meant when he mentioned “tonearm pot”. At first I thought he meant to write the word pod, as in an outboard tonearm mounting structure that is physically separated from the main chassis, but I don’t see that in the photos. An idler Drive of this design would provide very rigid control of speed and lots of torque potentially, and won’t be much subject to stylus drag at all. However, the trade-off is noise coming from the motor and being transmitted into the platter. This is an issue with any idler drive, and it depends upon careful design and build to minimize noise. 

Hi Erik,

I looked at the web site. It is pretty but I am not impressed. I do not like idler wheel drives and the table is not suspended. They sell an "isolation platform" but they do not mention exactly how it isolates the turntable do I am dubious. If you like wood which I certainly do go here https://sotaturntables.com/products/cosmos-eclipse/
and have a look. This turntable has a great suspension and drive, vacuum clamping and you can have it in any wood you want, Zebra wood included.

Mijostyn,If you would stop selling Sota turntables on this website, maybe then you would be able to evaluate some other brand of turntable on its own merits. If you don’t like idler drives, and we know you don’t like unsuspended turntables, then obviously you would not choose the turntable that this OP is asking about. So really you have nothing to say. Idler drive is not my first choice either, but the OP is asking about this singular product. And for all I know it might be a great sounding turntable, or not.

@lewm there are different turntables available, here is the one with tonearm pod or pot :)

This is something new, reminds me an old broadcast turntables.

It’s an eye candy. My Ikeda IT-347 in satin finishing it better match that glossy one on their site.