Artemis/Schroder SA-1?

The high torque DC motor - is noisy when idle (nothing playing - from a ten foot listening position approximately).

It is still noticeable when playing low volume dynamics of music IMO and the deal breaker for me - even tho its sexy as all get out...

Notec, I don't doubt what you say, but that report is most surprising. What is there to make noise in a DC motor at idle? (Nothing, I think.) Is this hum you are talking about, audible over the speaker, or a mechanical noise? .

It's mechanical dude. From the motor herself.

I still want one tho. Hope it's made next from darker wood

It's mechanical dude. From the motor herself.

So noisy motors are female? Hope nobody tells Elizabeth.

Notec,
Is that "mechanical dude", as in Robocop, or "mechanical, dude", as in The Big Lebowski?

If the motor made that much noise and was not grossly "broken", the company will have discarded it in favor of some other motor that does not make noise. To do otherwise would be corporate suicide in the highly competitive tt marketplace. Also, there are numerous superb aftermarket DC tt motors available to anyone. So I think that all you need to worry about is the choice of wood and whether the turntable is still being made at all.