"Fed Up Lurker" wrote in message
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"David Kennedy" wrote in message
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Fed Up Lurker wrote:

If you are 100% certain you didn't buy into reviewers of the time
looking
after old pals, and the mythology, and you have exhausted options and
comparisons, then if you feel the LP12 works for you thats what counts.

But I'm no fan of it, and it's not original nor groundbreaking.
It's based on established isolation principles found in many T/T's from
the 60's and 70's, my opinion (and many others) is it's an expensive
variation of cheaper longstanding models such as:
http://www.theanalogdept.com/td125_dept.htm

I always liked those.

http://www.retrohifi.co.uk/thorens_150.html#t
http://www.retrohifi.co.uk/pioneer_pl12d.html
And many many others.

Including

http://www.garrard501.com/rebuild.html

That was an idler wheel mechanism, a half way house between
direct drive and belt drive -
The benefits of belt drive type isolation, but idler wheels/gears
instead of a clumsy losey belt.
And with pitch intergrity akin to direct drives.


Try to get to hear an idler wheel deck if you haven't already: the bass will
beat both direct and belt drive for impact ('spank') and tightness and you
will hear far more clear detail in it - sticks on cymbals, wooden percussion
instruments, rimshots etc.