Speed accuracy- how accurate is accurate?

Hugely important - hard to achieve 🎶 once you’ve heard it - hard to go back 

Good Listening 

Peter 

Speed accuracy has got to be very important and for me the best tool is the Sutherland Timeline.

Turntable speed accuracy need only be more accurate than the speed accuracy of the record mastering tape deck and cutting machine!

More turntable accuracy then that does not matter in listening playback sound quality!

Blue Wolf,

The Roadrunner Tachometer is better/easier to use than the Timeline.

Good Listening


Peter 

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zavato 

Certainly, running at 33.333333333333 . . . with a stylus in the groove is ideal

Not if the Music itself has been recorded a bit slow or fast

What IS important is to have easy control to make your platter faster or slower and ensure it stays there when set. imo.
 
Now if the turntable does not have this type of control, given a choice between running a little slow or fast - definitely faster is better.