Why three motors?

"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."

You skipped the process of him listening to THREE side of the belt touching the platter, and then TWO sides, and the finally ONE side to reach nirvana.

I have nothing against TW, it could be a different brand and all I saw was a turntable with a rather curious belt arrangement that I never saw before so I asked a simple question. Why? So far no convincing answer. Even more curious, is that the manufacturer no longer have such configuration. And I have to ask why again. Was it a flop and had to change course again? Are those 3-motor turntable owners still sticking to that belt arrangement? If change, what do you do with the extra motors?

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@T_bone

That is a Shroeder tonearm

Which Shroeder would that be?

Hey Dan,

There were two links posted by Hiho showing a wooden arm. In the second one (3rd post) the link "Titled TW Acoustic" links to a picture of the table with a DPS on it. The original post has a link to a different picture with an wooden arm on it that was later identified by Hiho.

dave

FYI, I posted two images of the Raven turntable, each with two different tonearms.

1st image with Analog-Tools 12" tonearm and Audiocraft AC-4000 12" tonearm

2nd image with Schroeder DSP 9" tonearm and Dynavector DV-507 9" tonearm

Both turntables have three motors with only one side of the belt touching the platter.

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