Turnable database with TimeLine
Peterayer, I wasn't including you amongst those who have said that a very high-mass platter on a string or thread-drive turntable would be immune to stylus drag as you have admitted the fact...... Dertonearm and Dover I believe in the past (amongst many others previous to the advent of the Timeline)....have made such claims. Yet I have shown on my video of the Raven AC-2....the comparison when the stylus is NOT in the groove and I think that that gives a further comparison to both the motor, belt/string/thread and platter abilities of a belt-drive turntable......or ANY type of turntable. Your comments (and Syntax's) about only being concerned by the performance when the stylus is tracking the record....is misleading. I have recordings that have extremely modulated grooves and I have records which have very benignly modulated grooves. I can adjust the motor controller to handle one or the other.....but unless the speed is manipulated for each and every record you play.......there will inevitable be a difference in the Timeline between different recordings. This is why seeing the Timeline 'without load' in comparison to 'under load' is valuable. |
Dinster, I have the Feikert App and the 10" Test record to go with it and have done repeated testing on both my tables using my iPad and posting the relevant print-outs. The important thing about scientific or objective testing...is 'repeatability'. In other words....every time you or I proceed to test exactly the same thing....we should achieve exactly the same result? With the Feikert App.....I achieved different results every single time I repeated exactly the same tests? In some cases...the results even showed the Raven AC-2 giving better results than the Victor TT-101? :-) The test record itself was a major part of the problem..... Due to the fact that it contains a modulated groove of exactly 3150Hz....it is essential that the record hole is dead-centre. This is simply unachievable to the degree necessary to avoid variations from that constant test tone. With the Timeline......every test result is repeatable.... |
TT-101/3 ARMS For the record.....not 3/8" shift :-) |
