Dover, It has long been my observation that your major goal in participating in this discussion is to "prove" by the force of insistence that your particular Final Audio turntable is "the best". Secondary goals are to prove that the finest direct drive turntables are inferior to the finest, most expensive belt drive turntables. You've made these points over and over again, never with any sort of "science", except for the implication that what you hear and report is to be taken as gospel. So, I hardly think it behooves you to come down on Richard for not offering "proof". Actually, Bill Thalmann may have made some measurements of Krebs-modded SP10s that do support the claims. I will inquire.
It is irrelevant to me that you place no value in my subjective judgement, so we are even, so far as that is concerned. What I wrote about the Krebs mod was meant for persons who use SP10s. Direct drive has its issues, and so does belt drive. Apparently you prefer belt creep and speed instability to issues related to servo mechanisms. That's fine with me. And by the way, if your Final Audio has a motor controller drive system of some kind, the chances are that it too has an error-sensing mechanism which has the potential to produce an effect not unlike that of a DD servo. The only difference in the case of a belt drive is that the corrections are delivered via pulling on a compliant belt, which has its own pros and cons. Playing LPs is an exercise in inexactitude; each of us must find his own set of likes and dislikes which in the end must be based on listening. What I don't understand is why you hang around here, if the subject of this thread is so odious to you.
It is irrelevant to me that you place no value in my subjective judgement, so we are even, so far as that is concerned. What I wrote about the Krebs mod was meant for persons who use SP10s. Direct drive has its issues, and so does belt drive. Apparently you prefer belt creep and speed instability to issues related to servo mechanisms. That's fine with me. And by the way, if your Final Audio has a motor controller drive system of some kind, the chances are that it too has an error-sensing mechanism which has the potential to produce an effect not unlike that of a DD servo. The only difference in the case of a belt drive is that the corrections are delivered via pulling on a compliant belt, which has its own pros and cons. Playing LPs is an exercise in inexactitude; each of us must find his own set of likes and dislikes which in the end must be based on listening. What I don't understand is why you hang around here, if the subject of this thread is so odious to you.