Axelwahl says, "One expert put two Micro-Seiki on top of each other --- and then waits 5 minutes for the darn thing to stabilize the speed."
I think the flagship Nottingham Deco took such approach, with a massive 64 pound that is as thick as a microwave and driven by an extremely low torque motor that you have to finger spin it to start. Definitely doesn't seem very user friendly to me. I had a Spacedeck in the house at one point, very quiet table but the sonic was so mellow that it put me to sleep.
I use direct-drive turntables. Sometimes I use them to (VHS)tape-drive a "passive platter". So the motor is any one of my dozen direct-drive turntables. I no longer see these DD tables as record players, they are motors with a 12" pulley, "active platter", along with a controller. The combination of two platters takes up a lot of table space for sure. But they sound good. The only time when I can't hear any improvement from this tape-drive approach is when I use a dd table with a coreless motor. The coreless motor DD table sound just as smooth as the tape-drive set up. I have yet to try it with my Technics SP10mk2 table. It will be fun. I don't have any Denon turntables right now but I would like to try them as they are the only company I know who use an AC motor for their DD turntables.
I think the flagship Nottingham Deco took such approach, with a massive 64 pound that is as thick as a microwave and driven by an extremely low torque motor that you have to finger spin it to start. Definitely doesn't seem very user friendly to me. I had a Spacedeck in the house at one point, very quiet table but the sonic was so mellow that it put me to sleep.
I use direct-drive turntables. Sometimes I use them to (VHS)tape-drive a "passive platter". So the motor is any one of my dozen direct-drive turntables. I no longer see these DD tables as record players, they are motors with a 12" pulley, "active platter", along with a controller. The combination of two platters takes up a lot of table space for sure. But they sound good. The only time when I can't hear any improvement from this tape-drive approach is when I use a dd table with a coreless motor. The coreless motor DD table sound just as smooth as the tape-drive set up. I have yet to try it with my Technics SP10mk2 table. It will be fun. I don't have any Denon turntables right now but I would like to try them as they are the only company I know who use an AC motor for their DD turntables.