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
A fast or slow turntable will affect the pitch of the music. The accepted standard today is 440 Hz for middle A, but there has been wide variation throughout history, and even some variation today.

See http://www.uk-piano.org/history/pitch.html.

There was an international squbble once about the pitch of the Vienna Opera. It was too high, said many Divas, and bad for their voices. Musicians know that tuning just a bit high makes the music sound more exciting, and some do it on purpose.
Monk: Gosh, after more than 40 years of listening seriously to jazz, collecting more than 5000 recordings, and teaching a college course in jazz appreciation, I thought I WAS a REAL JAZZ LISTENER. Don't know how I could have been so ignorant about the off-pitch on "Kind of Blue", but I apparently had company -- none of the other REAL JAZZ LISTENERS that I knew were aware of the recording anomaly until around 1990. But I guess we're NOT REAL JAZZ LISTENERS up here in the Pacific Northwest...
C'mon Monk, aren't you being a bit hypercritical? After all - as all REAL JAZZ LISTENERS know, there is no such thing as as an absolutely correct pitch. You should be able to play KOB in any key whether it's a half step down or two steps up!