And I don't see how accuracy and consistency are disconnected ... I wonder if we are not pushing too much in the sense of subjectivity... Truly people. In this very thread it was suggested that perhaps we audiophile have special hearing abilities .. DO we want to truly believe we can hear better than instruments ... Had it been that way would we even have turntable to begin with? Anyhow I will simply continue to enjoy the SP10 and my definitely plebeian hearing abilities hear no cogging ...
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The SP 10 is on a very plinth made of a mixture of copper and aluminum, sandwiched with I believe SOrbothane , fabricated for me by a Mechanical Engineer relative..
it is my opinion that the differences , if any, that we hear between the better TTs are due not to how they revolve but rather in how they isolate ambient noise mostly the sound coming form the speakers. Furthermore as I had suggested in another thread I believe that comparison between TTs should be carried at the same position since different positions are due to have different standing waves distribution. I have been listening to music through headphones for the past 5 years, (this is about to change though) and I would like to know if TTs with the same arm and cartridge do not sound very close to "the same" when listening though headphones?
Let us try to admit or coerce something similar to an admission: Don't you think that once you know it is idler, DD or Belt-Drive that we unconsciously assign a "sound" to each category based on prior experience/exposure?