Direct Drive

@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.

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.

Proof the knows not. Failure to proofreaad. Audiogon once offered a gear icom the edit the post after posting for a limited time. I no longer notice that Must be the consequence of sinful actions.

@theophile the gear is still there, but it disappears after 30 minutes.  I actually used it on this post.

@goofyfoot - don't know anything about the 78 table. I think there are some tables out there that offer that speed, just like being able to switch to 45.

Yes, the RB3000 is almost double the price of the RB880 - that's why I was told to stick with the 880 if I had a well isolated application. Rega almost doubles the price with each upgrade in their arm line, not offering too many options (for turntables either). They believe in simplicity and continuous improvement and value.

Sorry @theophile - that's what happens here on the 'Gon. I have no problem with direct drive tables - I owned one for 20 years or so (it was fully automatic). Had a linear tracking arm as well. After it broke, I bought one the most basic manual tables out there (a Music Hall MMF 5 I think) and it blew the direct drive away on SQ. I would be belt tables are more reliable than direct drive in general, but it depends on the individual model. Also, I would bet all things being equal (which they practically never are) the direct drive mechanism is more expensive than belt's.