Turnable database with TimeLine

Is anyone else wondering what their highly accurate test procedure is?

Yes....good point.
Just more unsubstantiated Marketing Copy.....
This is one of the reasons I fear the 'use' of the Timeline by manufacturers...?
I simply don't trust them...
Videos posted by manufactures displaying 'superb' Timeline results could be 'fabricated'?
We really need actual owners of the turntables to post their results onto this Database....but that's easier said than done?
Anyone who invests heavily in a well-known brand (especially an expensive one).....may not wish to publicise a poor result?....or may not even want to face the reality themselves?
I fear those may be the reasons we don't have the NVS, the TechDas or the Caliburn submitted as yet?
We certainly know that certain readers of A'gon do own these decks?

Don, While I agree with others that correct instantaneous speed is an important measure of tt performance, it is certainly not the only thing to consider. Different tt's sound different, and it isn't always only due to differences in speed constancy. Yet somehow, I've gravitated to direct-drive and idler-drive (Lenco only); I hear my particular tt's as superior to the belt-drive tt's that I have owned in areas that probably really are related to their capacity to maintain constant speed despite countering forces that exist during LP play, but I've never owned a megabuck belt-drive tt that I might like better. Thus, from my experience, I feel unqualified to generalize. My subjective judgement of what I own and can afford is all that counts, to me. In the end, we're all in that boat. So, I sympathize in part with your view, but the obsession with speed constancy is not just hype.

Halcro

Your choice of speakers are very suspect!

You hear "lucidity"? LOL!

I can not argue with religious theory.

There are many, many things that screw up Lp playback.

It never will be perfect!

Don
I don't think that any of us are claiming perfection. Well maybe one of us is. But we are, most of us, on an impossible quest for same.
Religious? Maybe a substitute, but it is a whole lot of fun.
Given the manyfold problems of vinyl playback, it is a miracle that anything resembling music is possible at all. So maybe a Devine presence is at work.

I graduated from college and started working in Aerospace Engineering just as the WWII generation was starting to retire. I had the privilege of being mentored by engineers that started working just before and after WWII. This is the generation that designed and developed moon rockets, supersonic jet fighters, television and hifi. They did it all using slide rules and look up tables. It was an age of soulful design. On paper, vinyl playback looks bad. On paper, vacuum tubes look bad; but separately and even better together they make music magic. There is a lot to be said for Computer Aided Design and increased engineering productivity; but there is something about the Art of Engineering in vinyl records and the whole recording chain of the past, something remarkable that still amazes us in the 21st Century.