I don’t care what car do you have, but you can’t even remember the names of the turntables and your experience with some unknown direct drive is from the 70s!
Reference direct drive are all from Japan from Denon, Victor, Pioneer, Technics... I assume you neved tried any good Japanese direct drive from those brands, I want to remind you that top models from those brand were extremely expensive in the 70s/80s.
Also Direct Drive are not the same. Drive itself does not have a sound and what you hear is a sound of tonearm/cartridge.
You can recall your cartridges and tonearms maybe? @mijostyn
Reference direct drive are all from Japan from Denon, Victor, Pioneer, Technics... I assume you neved tried any good Japanese direct drive from those brands, I want to remind you that top models from those brand were extremely expensive in the 70s/80s.
Also Direct Drive are not the same. Drive itself does not have a sound and what you hear is a sound of tonearm/cartridge.
You can recall your cartridges and tonearms maybe? @mijostyn