Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive

Dear Lew, You can then see and hear Eckard's more beautuful Sony XL 88D in its integrated  headshell.

Bukanona, I deed not use the expression ''glue'' but referred to
Axel's description of the stuff with which the Body was ''potted''
 in order to dampen resonaces. Even Axel with 40 years of
experience has never seen this before. I have no experience 
with other carts in the XL series but assumed that those are
also ''potted''. All of them have the same ''8 form coil formers''.
So if one can get entrance one can probably buy, say, XL 44
as ''clone'' for the coils of other versions. .I assume that XL 55
has round cantilever and joint pipe so in this ''pipe'' an new cantilever/stylus combo can be glued in .By the most retips
the old cantilever can be removed by some solvent so that
new cantilever can be glued in. 

Right Atmasphere, if on a "proper stand" which includes the floor and everything under it, a situation most of us have no control over. On any wood joist floor you will be in trouble. Those of us on concrete slabs are lucky. I personally do not think that level of speed stability is all that important. Like distortion in amps it becomes a numbers game. But, I do not have any prolonged experience with modern DD tables. My bias comes from the unfortunately distant past. You as an audio manufacturer get a lot more opportunity to play with this stuff than I do and I do believe I am jealous of that. My life just lead me in another direction.
What tonearm would you put on the 1200G?

@mijostyn I missed this earlier! I have my turntable on a custom Sound Anchors equipment stand, which is built to accommodate an UltraResolution Technology platform (n.l.a.) for both the preamp and the turntable, which of course sits on top. The stand in turn rests on a set of Aurios Pro bearings (unfortunately also n.l.a.). Despite wood floors and joists, no footfalls or any such like, even in my previous house which had considerably less sound flooring.


The Triplanar seems the obvious choice for tonearm as it is state of the art.


When the two are combined the soundstage takes on a spooky real quality much like you hear on tape. My surmise is since the speed is so stable, the arm oscillates less over the groove so the soundstage has less shimmer as the tracking pressure on each groove wall is more constant.

Lewm,
you are always welcome. Nandric has some difficulties taking his feet over the Dutch border 😂
in four weeks I will be confronted with a new highlight in Phono.
will report later.

best
E. (Without D but T)

Dear thuchan, I am 83 old and have difficulty to  walk longer distances than, say, 200 m. You and my other German friends invited
me for the Munchen show many times but being all globetrotters
never thought about my physical limitations. Mea culpa but as
an brave Serbian  warrior I was not willing to confess my own
limitations. Distance is not an border for love and friendship. 
I consider myself still as member of the ''German group''.