@glupson
Why would this one satisfy DJs and "audiophiles" while some other one would not?
Pitch control is the key for DJing, that’s why Technics SL1200mkII became DJ standard. You will never find any DJ turntable without pitch control fader. It can be 8% or event higher in both direction to slow down or speed up one tune to another to mix/blend them right. The tempo is the key when few hundred people are dancing infront of you at the disco. Old school DJs used a microphone between the tracks, but since the 70s DJs developed their skills to mix the records. The skills depends on genre of music, but the pitch is necesary to fine tune the records. Technics released pitch control as a fader in SL1200mkII (not as a knob like it was before on their earlier models). This is the reason why modern DJs can NOT djing on any Hi-End turntable, there is no pitch control fader to quickly adjust the speed of the record to mix them together in tempo. This is the answer why High-End/Audiophile SL1200GAE is still a perfect "DJ turntable".
The best coreless direct drive turntables like the Victor TT-101 has lower torque than Technics. Victor has an electronic pitch control +/- buttons, but nor manual pitch control fader like Technics.
My Luxman PD-444 has lower torque that Technics, but i like Luxman much better for home listening. No pitch control, just stable 33/45
In Audiophiles world the speed stability is the key, not the torque.
Victor TT-101 direct drive has an ultimate speed stability, but lower torque.
BTW: Technics SP-10 mkIII has the highest torque ever among any Direct Drive as far as i know!
So the Technics is still unbeatable in terms of torque when it comes to reference models, but there is not pitch control on the reference models.
What is OK for audiophiles is not acceptable for professional DJs and vice versa.