Modified Lenco vs TW Raven

Barba
I heard from a reliable source TW is working on how to spin the platter at constant speeds during play back ,however chat amoug TW owners festival keep TW busy with sales of new and improved platters, bearings , motors and rubber bands

I'm not a skilled man but it gives me will to try this road myself too....

In a way, all depends what you want or expect. Maybe High End? That's difficult, because someone has to know what High End is.
It can be an endless discussion because everyone has his own opinion about it, but I found a very good comment about it from Gordon Holt (founder from Stereophile) in 2007:

Do you still feel the high-end audio industry has lost its way in the manner you described 15 years ago?
Not in the same manner; there's no hope now. Audio actually used to have a goal: perfect reproduction of the sound of real music performed in a real space. That was found difficult to achieve, and it was abandoned when most music lovers, who almost never heard anything except amplified music anyway, forgot what "the real thing" had sounded like. Today, "good" sound is whatever one likes.
Since the only measure of sound quality is that the listener likes it, that has pretty well put an end to audio advancement, because different people rarely agree about sound quality.

I think, he is way too negative :-) and he missed definitely the new Marketing Concept, which is very successful and has a LOT of fanatical followers....
Black Lemon Marketing

Each his own

OK, so let's say I agree with Syntax. I often don't or at least I don't like the way he communicates his likes or dislikes in this forum. But as a musician and as someone who has spent considerable time in concert halls myself, how much time does syntax spend doing the same? It is shocking how few audiophiles spend any time at all in the presence of unamplified live music. And let's be honest, that can rarely be found outside of a symphony concert these days since just about any venue is in some way electronically boosted. And is it worth anyone's time to talk about recreating a live experience when the live experience ends when the first sound pressure wave hits the microphone?

I have listenned a lot of live music, especially classical because it is my preferred one.
For that I am lucky enough to live in an important city where there is an intense artistic proposal. Some audiophile don't have the same possibilities and I don't want to make them ashamed not knowing what is the "real" sound of instruments and voices on live event.
Everyone can have his (her) own references and is in his right to judge what he is listenning whatever his reference is.

In shore wrote;

I heard from a reliable source TW is working on how to spin the platter at constant speeds during play back ,however chat amoug TW owners festival keep TW busy with sales of new and improved platters, bearings , motors and rubber bands.

You may have missed this thread and this post is a great place to start but there is a lot of great info there -
Haters gonna hate

Halcro puts in bunch of effort and shows the TW speed accuracy to be excellent. But hay, nothing is perfect.