Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege?

Hi Raul, 

It certainly makes it less enjoyable and inviting when someone refuses to allow others to express their own opinions or discredits them . More importantly , passing along some knowledge along the way and learning some from those different experiences others have to pass on often gets lost along the way.
One thing that most open minded and knowledgeable people learn quickly is there are not just many choices but also very few hard rules with many exceptions or in general as they say. 
Some folks just can't escape the personal bias of ownership even in the face of reality that they aren't much past mid fidelity in the grand scheme of all things audio. The guy who knows what he has , appreciates it , maximizes it's performance in his budget and to his preference while still respecting and appreciating the choices and opinions of others is always, always the smarter man and the better to learn and learn from. 
The ones who refuse to see past their own biases and belittle anyone in difference to their opinions often just spew general knowledge about their audio pieces while critisizing others audio they most times no nothing first hand about.
There is a lot of experience and knowledgeable guys on this forum,but I wonder how many less the argumentative narrow views of a few have caused to no longer be as active.
Keep spinning them and enjoy the music.
Cheers...

Has2be....

Well said.

Mid price belt drive turntables (like Nottingham Spacedeck) can sound generally OK.
But what is mostly annoying for me, they broke a rhythm of music.
For simple pop music it is not too important. Even there are some kind of jazz and classical music that that rhythm accuracy doesn't make a big difference too. But a music with a fine sense of rhythm like most of classical piano music is fallen in parts (if it played on belt drive turntable).
So, for people who like this kind of music or sensitive to PRAT, using a top vintage DD turntable seems to be a good idea. My experience shows that good and not expansive idler drive TT, like Lenco, can do a similar job.

Regards,
Alex.

The funny thing is a lot of the cost no object high end TT’s
are heavy platter belt drives. Yes in the low and mid-fi, good deal
for the money TT’s the direct drives are strongly represented.
But who talked about such trivial limitations?