Would love to hear the differences on the above 3 turntables you liked.
You have direct drive and a heavy platter with 3 motors and lighter
platter with 1 papst motor.
I would like to hear about the tone, body, decay, attack, pitch, and separation of instruments.
I'm not sure I would characterize it quite that way...
Its important to understand that I've not heard all these side by side. At least all the 'tables mentioned had the same arm installed- the 12" Triplanar.
The best so far has been the Technics SP-10 MkIII. It came the closest to tape in the regard that there was absolutely no shimmer in the sound stage- something that is hard to describe until you hear it.
The SL-1200GAE was really similar. I've not heard it with the stock arm.
The model 208 is next- it is less speed stable, but does have a good solid plinth that is pretty dead and a very dead platter. The Kuzma was very similar but its plinth is not as dead. In addition if I had to guess I would say its drive simply is not as robust- it takes longer to get up to speed and the speed drifts more with stylus drag (but to be clear, not by much at all- its an excellent machine).
We've had tape in our room at shows. I've heard the 'tables above outperform the tape on the same titles; since some of those were analog sources, its led me to believe that we are in a period where lots of titles are showing up on half track 15ips 10.5" reels that don't have the provenance they need to actually outperform the LP- IOW, the LP is significantly closer to the master than the tape.
