At what point can you hear a Fast or Slow Table?


Using the KAB speed strobe my Turntable is right on speed. However, when accounting for stylus drag the speed drops to precisely (according to KAB) to .37% slow with the needle in the first track. Is this minor enough to just let it go? Can this even be heard by someone with perfect pitch?

The table is a brand new P5 with TTPSU
agent193
It would depend on the individual.I can hear when there is a more than 2% deviation in speed having compared recorded samples from vinyl on a computer.The piano is a good indicator of speed response,so play some piano records and see what you think.
People with very acute hearing and sense of pitch might be able to detect a variance of more than a few percent either way, assuming the deviation is constant, but the majority of listeners will probably not hear this small a difference. However, a substantial number of listeners will be able to detect fluctuations such wow and/or flutter. I'm reminded of Miles Davis great album, "Kind of Blue", which was recorded in 1959 with a tape machine that ran just a hair slow (thereby altering the pitch ever so slightly). This wasn't detected until the recording was remastered in the mid-1990's, after tens of thousands of people had listened to the recording for some 35 years.

So, the speed variation in your turntable probably isn't anything to worry about.
I would imagine it is well within the tolerences for many manufactures of Turntables, you think?