Brinkmann vs TW Acustic

tdaudio, I completely agree with you about recording process and all the behind the scene work. DG certainly made it well known that they are not there to capture the performance as is but edit and manipulate the recording session in such way that they think is the best way to listen through 2 channel systems. Whether you agree with their philosophy or not is up to personal preference. I have not made much point about that since I was really concentrate more on timing/speed issue with Timeline.

Actually I am a bit disappointed as there is not much of a comment regarding Brinkmann which is a turntable that I am actually curious about. All I recall regarding TW vs Brinkmann is that there were some old threads back when TW was still relatively new, it seemed that quite a few people made a migration from Brinkmann to TW.Whether that is still an accurate sentiment to the current Brinkmann and TW, I have no idea.

Hello Downunder

In my case, with one motor, the speed slows down ( as observed by the 33 mark moving to the left of the strobe disk) when the needle is in the groove. Are you using more than one motor?

Andrew

Hi Andrew

I have the AC-3, so 3 motors.
Never had an issue to align the belt in the middle of each motor pulley. Just adjust the feet slightly and after some slight changes the belt aligns perfectly. My VPI HRX belt always vibrated all over the place, so the TW a lot better:-)

Are you sure the 33 drifts slightly to the left? KAB says left is faster.

BTW, what mat do you use, or are you direct to the copper plate. I have tried the millenium, Boston and no mat. I found the Living Voice is quite a bit better than all of these. Dgad recommended it a while back.

Cheers

Hi,3 of my friends bought TW ACUSTIC tables after hearing my well set up table.These guys all Love there tables.

Downunder,

I am back to just the copper. But the reason is it sounds almost the same. On the AC I preferred the Living Voice.