Turntable speed accuracy

Dear Lew, I know your opinion about Lurne for some time but
Goldmund thought obviously otherwise when they hired him
as a TT designer. I am not sure if he designed the Goldmund
Reference but well that he designed the Studio which is
a DD kind and also the F3 linear arm. The DD motor was not a problem in Europe . He used the Papst motor first and JVC latter. He is still in business btw.As you also know Dual produced two very interesting DD motors but sold many more belt drives. Dual is now back in buseness but they don't produce any DD turntables at present. The reason is probable the pessimistic market expectation.
However I also mentioned Kuzma, Driessen and Yorke but you
obviously prefered not to comment on them. Considering the
prices for their TT's one can hardly argue that the production cost is the reason for their avoidance of DD kind.

Regards,

I respect the work of Kuzma, Driessen, and Yorke, from a distance. I only say what I say about Lurne' because of my experience with his earliest Audiomeca product. And my opinion should really mean nothing. As I once told you, were I to be in the market for a belt-drive type turntable, the Kuzma Reference, a la chez Nandric, would be my choice.

Dear Nandric, the Goldmund REF designed by George Bernard and the latest edition mkII also. The latest projects of both Simon & Pierre were about $25000 and it comes naturally the cause of their choise regarding BD TTs as Eddie first showing the seeds of the "exotic" creations (?)
I've had in my posession the Zarathustra S4 and the J4/SL5 and for a limited time (3 months) the Studio ST4. All of them were very fine TTs and not so far from reality ($$$).
Anyway right now I'm far away from this kind of lust and I feel that the Hi-Fi market's turning point at '80s with the Japan giants leaving the field to some hungry animals, it is still our torment today after 3 decades and we owe it to our love for this hobby to realise and accept the influence which has upon us the marketing status. After the shrinkage of the hi-fi market, the industry turns it's back and left the designers to seek for the whealthy victims among us. There is so little progress and so much BS today that the buyer is usually go for the more beautiful as a statement of his life style. But unfortunatelly TTs are not cars and so, his "Buggatti" is only for the eye and refuses to spin properly a vinyl.
Are we going to feed this monster again?

Geoch: "I feel that the Hi-Fi market's turning point at '80s with the Japan giants leaving the field to some hungry animals, it is still our torment today after 3 decades and we owe it to our love for this hobby to realise and accept the influence which has upon us the marketing status. After the shrinkage of the hi-fi market, the industry turns its back and left the designers to seek for the wealthy victims among us. There is so little progress and so much BS today that the buyer is usually go for the more beautiful as a statement of his life style. But unfortunately TTs are not cars and so, his "Bugatti" is only for the eye and refuses to spin properly a vinyl. Are we going to feed this monster again?"

Great post, Geoch! And great question!

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You must be kidding me, right?

Hiho,
I'm not sure how to take that. If you know the names of any engineers who designed state of the art TTs in the 70s and 80s, why don't you just list them, along with the company they worked for, and where they post in discussion forum today? That's what I'm interested in knowing.

Who did Kuzma work for before starting Kuzma in 82?

What about Yorke? Where did he work before starting to build his own TTs?

How about Driessen of Pluto Audio? Pluto was founded in 74. Did he work somewhere else before that?