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Direct Drive

I am firmly in the digital camp, but I’ve dabbled in vinyl.  Back in the day I was fascinated by Technics Direct Drive tt, but couldn’t afford them.  I was stuck with my entry level Gerrard.  I have been sans turntable for about 5 years now but the new gear bug is biting.  I am interested in the Technics 1500 which comes with an Ortofon Red and included pre amp.  I have owned Rega P5 which I hated for its speed instability and a Clearaudio Concept which was boring as hell.

  Direct Drive was an anathema to audiophiles in the nineties but every time I heard  one it knocked my socks off.  What do the analogers here think of Direct Drive?  I listen to Classical Music exclusively 

mahler123
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goofyfoot
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@dover Threaded VTA adjusters are available for any Rega mount. https://soundsupports.co.uk/Rega%20Related%20Products/

Of course Rega wants their customers to buy Rega cartridges but to me that seems limiting. I do believe in the compatibility factor, meaning certain cartridges perform better with certain tonearms. But Clearaudio cartridges with Clearaudio tables and Rega cartridges with Rega tables; on that I'm not yet sold.

sokogear
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I’ve used a van den Hul MC one Special with excellent results for about 10 years. Great stylus life and detailed dynamic SQ.

dover
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Threaded VTA adjusters are available for any Rega mount.

Yes but you need to be careful that they can be locked and rigidly mounted to the armband or plinth.

Some of the early Rega VTA adjusters ended up with the arm simply sitting in the hole.

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@dover @sokogear  Know anything about the Rega 78 table and cartridge combination? Seems like the best option for 78 shellac records. Also, it's large leap in price from the Rega 880 to the 3000.

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theophile
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Of cause a thread about Direct Drive turntables has been turned by sheer weight of numbers, hijacking the subject, to a belt drive thread. Is no discusson of Direct Drives to be tolerated?

Oh, I realise my comment can never go unflamed( The Fires of Driect Drive Hell). Not flames from the The Only Possesors Of The Truth. Just the deserved consequneces of my disbeilief. The only destiny of the Eternally Mislead. Yes foul believers in Untruth. We shall never be tolerated whilie there is breath in the lungs of The Only Knowers Of Truth and The Eternnal Damners of Heresy seek out the heretics and silence their Damned discussion. Thank GOD I found the gear icon Dyslexia is a curse. 

 

What an impertinent heretic has DARED to ask for this to actually resume being a Direct Drive discussion thread again? Cast his vile body into the flames of direct drive(spit) Hell. Forever. His words contaminate the ears of the fools and the easily impressionable. This impertinenence of lack of due respect for The Only True path must be silenced at every mention...

True to his evil, is that I owned, and thought many a Quality belt drive turntable was the Only True Path. But now I am one of the blind.

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