Why three motors?

Thanks for your idea about the belt arrangement. But I seriously doubt the designer intended that way and if he did, that's a rather belabored effort to achieve small contact area by using THREE motors and not to mention belt slip. Oy! Why not just use an idler wheel? The manufacturer no longer has that model so I have to assume they have changed course.

There are formal reviews of the turntable and yet not one reviewer questioned the wisdom of the belt arrangement; they are the usual couple paragraphs describing the mechanics and they go straight to the epic flowery prose about the soundstage blah blah blah.

Your examples of combating belt creep is very interesting though. Thanks.

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Well, thank you. I do build idlers because of some predisposition that I have. Bear in mind that ours is a hobby of flavors, though. Still, I am intrigued by different approaches, whether they be three motor belt drives or massive string drives. After all, there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Win
Saskia Turntables

Gents, let me explain,this is a very compex response so read carefully.

Thomas did something that was amazing. He listened to one motor, two motors, 3 motors, multiple belts and came up to the conclusion that 3 motors with one belt sounded better. Thomas quoted.

" The three motors give you a more relaxed sound. All instruments and vocals are better imaged. They just take you one little step closer to live music."

BTW, I have no idea why 3 motors sound better.

Hey Dertonarm
I almost fell off my chair. 3 posts about TW and not one negative jibe. You must be in therapy or something :-)

This is audio, and not everything can be measure. Before the TW I owned the one with ceramic magnetic bearing. And my perception was TW could never beat it in this aspect.A no contact floating spindle. I bought TW because it's massive, beautiful, black...And what, TW sound way, way better,and I'm using the same tonearm, cart...Btw I never heard of Caliburn, Walker and Transrotor.

Hey Downunder, it is very simple: I have finally realized how great all TW-products (past, present and future) are.
Given the fact (which many fellow A'goners here discovered before...) that I am slow and rather simple-minded, that came somewhat late to me. But now I am convinced. The 3-motor-drive/one-side-belt-touch-only was the very last drop I needed. When I realized the striking idea and empirical research behind it, I was stunned in awe.
That's what I tried to express in the past posts in this thread.
Syntax too is already desperately looking for 2 more Micro Seiki RY5500 motor drives to finally enter Nirvana. Problem is, those motors are too large to fit in the spaces between his armbases and the rack is too small too.
Anyway - neither him nor me will turn on our front-end again before adding more motors to the set-up. I will check back with my Lancia whether I can't add 1 or 2 more motors to make the drive more relaxed and to add further presence to the drive experience.