A friend of mine has progressed through a series of decent tts over the past few years. He started by adding a Teres rim drive to his VPI Scout (big difference, even greater than the VPI rim drive), then through a series of DD tables from Technics, Kenwood, and Luxman. More recently he got a Micro Seiki belt drive (not sure of the model but it was not the low end). Speed was not accurate and the MS motor could not be adjusted/repaired to run the proper speed.
On an inspiration he adapted the Teres more with a proper sized pulley (and reversed the rotation direction) to drive the heavy MS platter via a string drive. This is a person who has decades of experience in this hobby and he believes he now has the best tt set up he ever owned. I have not heard every iteration he experimented with but will say with everything from a full symphony crescendo to a sustained piano chord it provides beautiful and believable playback.
On an inspiration he adapted the Teres more with a proper sized pulley (and reversed the rotation direction) to drive the heavy MS platter via a string drive. This is a person who has decades of experience in this hobby and he believes he now has the best tt set up he ever owned. I have not heard every iteration he experimented with but will say with everything from a full symphony crescendo to a sustained piano chord it provides beautiful and believable playback.
