Quiddity
You want to hear a really strange story? I have two identical Technics SP10 MK3 turntables. One was sent to a tech who is considered to be one of the best in the USA. He replaced all the caps, diodes and rectifiers and upon return (even though it tested the same) it KILLED the table with no upgrades.
There has to be a lot of complicated things going on with "drive" and "speed" of these various tables because the start, stop, accuracy and drive can be drastically improved by things like this upgrade and I don't know if those are even in the parts per million.
The direct effect which you postulate is reduced by the second order low pass filter formed by the belt / platter combination. The maximal velocity variation for a given length change is the product of the radial displacement produced by the length change and the corner frequency of the filter system expressed in radians per second. The numbers come out in the parts per million range.
You want to hear a really strange story? I have two identical Technics SP10 MK3 turntables. One was sent to a tech who is considered to be one of the best in the USA. He replaced all the caps, diodes and rectifiers and upon return (even though it tested the same) it KILLED the table with no upgrades.
There has to be a lot of complicated things going on with "drive" and "speed" of these various tables because the start, stop, accuracy and drive can be drastically improved by things like this upgrade and I don't know if those are even in the parts per million.