Turnable database with TimeLine

I overreacted. The last record that I played the other night must have had noisy vinyl. I listened last night and heard no rumble. I cranked up "For Duke" again. This record has dead quiet vinyl. Sounded great- saxophones and trumpets all over the room.

I think that back in the day, a few tweakers used to disable the suspension on SOTA tt's entirely and then mount them on any of many various isolation platforms. In other words, turn a suspended tt into an unsuspended one. Let the platform do the work.

Rather than hijack this thread some more (sorry Peter:-) I have done a write up on my turntable mod at my system page.

VICTOR TT-81
This turntable displays the same (if not better) accuracy as the TT-101.....
I believe the difference in the speed accuracy and consistency WITHOUT load compared to that WITH load is of some importance....and that's why I like to see the Timeline mark playing the record compared to NOT playing.....
The reason I believe it's important is that the musical waveform on the vinyl record can be quite benign on soft unmodulated passages (not to mention pauses in the musical content)...whilst with loud, heavily modulated passages...the stylus drag can be quite severe?
If there is a marked difference in a turntable's performance between playing a record and not playing.....there must be a gradient in the speed accuracy when faced with benign passages as opposed to modulated ones?

At any rate.....despite what opponents of DD turntables like to say about their sound and 'speed correction seeking'......there is no physical evidence of it with the Timeline which is rock solid.

Halcro, that's an impressive video which supports your point. Clearly the DD Victors and Technics Sp10s show the best results in this limited database. It makes me wonder why anyone would listen to any other drive types and why there is not more demand for modern versions of the Victor. I suppose many people feel there are other important factors in addition to speed accuracy and consistency.

I would be very interested to see a study which examines how much speed variation is audible and then how much more can there be to become distracting. In my experience, the Timeline can show minute variations to perfect speed which I can not hear.