Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It's been years since I checked, but isn't the main problem with belt drive from stretching over time?
Belt drive turntables tend to have more wow and flutter (be less accurate, because of the belt) from the git-go than a direct-drive, but a direct-drive imparts more noise, what with the motor being directly connected to the platter, all other things being equal.
A well engineered version of either is just fine, imho.
Originally posted by: Vic
Technics or Stanton turntable with a good sound card and software and there shouldn't be a problem here.
LOL, Stanton makes turntables? I still have my
Stanton 681EEE cartridge, with it's plush case containing its gold metal box and gold plated tiny screwdriver and original, hand-notated and hand-signed, (by the engineer who conducted it), calibration test, from WAY back in the day, like 40 years ago!
Apparently, they're still making and selling them! :shocked:
I refuse to believe it's the same company, or even that it could be substantially the same cartridge (although is sure as hell looks like it is). It was my
impression back then (late '60's, early '70's) that Shure was already starting to surpass them.
Btw, headphone fans, that was how I first knew of Grado, as a phono cartridge maker. This was back when Koss was a
premium headphone maker, and an American company whose products were designed and built here.
Wow, I did not know this history:
Walter O. Stanton, the inventor of an easily replaceable phonograph stylus that was crucial to creating a consumer market for audio equipment, died on Monday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 86.
In the late 1940's Mr. Stanton's slide-in stylus made it possible for users to replace a needle assembly when it wore out, instead of having to send it back to the factory. Audiophiles snapped them up for home use, and the invention became one of the basics in phonograph cartridge design.
But Mr. Stanton was as much a salesman as he was an engineer. In 1950, he bought Pickering & Company, the audio component manufacturer that first sold his patented stylus.
A decade later he founded another company, Stanton Magnetics, which was one of the first American companies to make and sell magnetic cartridges that improved sound quality and allowed for a less-expensive product in the 1970's. Both companies had operations in Plainview, N.Y., and West Palm Beach, Fla.
Rather than selling the phonograph as one big console, Mr. Stanton was one of the first to separate the electronics, the turntable and the cartridges and sell them separately to consumers.
To do that effectively, he prodded the major manufacturers to arrive at standards for the mounting systems for cartridges and the type of recording on vinyl records. He served as president of the Audio Engineering Society and was inducted into the Audio Hall of Fame, family members said.
In his effort to broaden the market for audio components, Mr. Stanton helped found the Institute of High Fidelity, whose annual trade shows in Manhattan attracted crowds of gadget lovers.
Pickering, yeah, I remember them as a higher end cartridge/stylus maker back in the day. Didn't know they were owned by Stanton.
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