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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I'm not sure why that would be, since the drive mechanism is ultimately only dictating the torque of startup and the consistency of the speed of the platter rotation. Whether it's belt drive or not is not going to affect the audio quality, so if "audiophiles" really do prefer belt drive over motorized, I'm not sure why they do, except for maybe a mistaken assumption resulting in placebo effect...
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The belt driven turntable isolates the platter, spindle, record and pickup from the motor assembly. Again a belt driven turntable is utterly worthless for DJ work, but I have demonstrated to DJ's I've known that a belt drive turntable sounds better. I'm too new to post links here but I found an excellent article on the topic, "How to buy a turntable" by Steve Guttenberg on CNet.