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Teres is also going to be offering a replacement motor/idler system for the Garrards, I read (FWIW). Maybe for Lencos some time too, ya never know ( turn it sideways? ;-) ). Obviously They actually listened to idlers and found out how good they are. I'm really starting to like that company!

Jean, Now that I think of it, I do recall a good feeling about the Sony TAE products. It's the earlier and maybe the later ones up to the SE line that I did not like at all.

Wouldn't you consider the Loricraft tables to just be latter day copies of the Garrards?

The Teres motor for Garrard is just their Verus set up to work on the inside rim of the Garrard platter.

Oregon, a small correction. We are no longer producing any belt drive turntables. For more than a year now our top of the line table has been direct drive.

With all of the noise about rim vs belt, direct I think that the most important point about the Verus motor is being lost. The reason we are adopting rim and direct drive is that we now have a motor that has dramatically less cogging than anything we have seen before. This allows us to couple the motor more intimately with the platter without the detrimental effects of cogging.

Isolation between the motor and platter (from a belt, idler or whatever) is a very good way to reduce the negative effects of cogging. But as this group knows so well it also causes loss of pace and smearing. An idler setup suffers from cogging effects but to my ears it's a better compromise than the smearing you get from the greatly increased isolation resulting from a belt. But it is a still a compromise.

Because the Verus motor is essentially coggless, we are able to couple the motor as intimately as possible to the platter without introducing degradations from cogging. This is why we created a drop in replacement for the Garrard motor. With the major reduction in cogging and more intimate coupling to the platter the improvement is not subtle. It was rim drive both before and after so there is more to the story than just the drive topology.

I have contemplated creating a drop in replacement for the Lenco. Any interest?

Chris

Can you give us more info on the replacement motor for the Lenco? When you say "drop in"...does it occupy the same dimensions as the original Lenco motor?

A bunch of us have BIG plinths...just wondering how much rework of the plinth will be needed.

Thanks...and cool development!

-Jim

Teres,
I appreciate your help in clearing this up. It's always risky to put info out there without good, clear information.
I applaud Teres for seeking a better way to bring joy to our hobby and way of life.
Please keep us posted on any new developments.
Respectfully, Oregon