Are more turntable motors better?

will do some serious 1 vs. 2 motor comparisons, and report back.

Unfortunately, it will show nothing new, because you don't know, how good these motors really are.
That's why multi motors from same manufacturer always sound different to single motor. When they have flaws, it is not so obvious. They compensate each other.

A real comparison would be, to use a real good motor as comparison (for example from Micro Seiki..)
In Germany I know a few who replaced- for example - the Raven motors, no matter how much (1 or 2...) with really high quality industrial motors and they told me, THAT is an real improvement....

Syntax,

Do you know the details (models, sources)on any industrial motors that were used successfully? That would be great to try. May even cost less if they're not originally intended for audio!

Hi Klinerm,
not really, some use the big motor from Micro Seiki, some have DIY motors (but very professionally made because they know some technicians) and one gave the Raven motors to a factory, they used the housing to implement their own design.
But even that Raven will be on sale the next time, the owner has some other turntables and will let it go, even with improved motors.
A - real - good turntable design is not so easy in our modern time, I guess.
No wonder, digital became such huge acceptance.

Well, I guess I'm going to finish up my own thread. I've now had the opportunity to listen to my Final Tool through a quite high end system with 1, 2, & 3 motors for a few weeks, and it's in my opinion a no-brainer that 1 motor sounds best. Of course, this finding probably will not generalize to all turntables on the market.

From my experience, having had only one 1 motor and then upgrading to 3 later on with my Transrotor turntable, I think the merits are both from what the designer puts and what the customer wants. I decided to go with a 3 motor setup after upgrading to a 80MM platter which was twice as heavy as the other stock 40MM platter that was on before. I wanted to go this route because I wanted to add extra torque capacity at startup to enable to platter to spin-up to speed from a cold start. With one motor and one belt, it took some time and it was noticeable, with the heavy platter upgrade, the manufacturer suggested the 3 motor route...the motors did not change, I mean it was the same motor either with one or 3 motors, but there is no noise at all, and the Transrotor speed controller allows me to monitor the variances in speed and make on the fly changes as needed in case I need to.

I know some state that a high torque motor is capable of driving a heavy platter with no problem but the Transrotor motors, I am not sure who makes these are so quiet and work great for me and I am not sure if they are high torque or not. That is where the ultimate decision lies, what works for you as a customer, it is your decision based on your own parameters. Good luck.

Ciao,
Audioquest4life