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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.

Halcro
You have mistakenly attributed the following quote to Richardkrebs.

01-09-14: Halcro
Richardkrebs is right.....
Why is speed so important? As you know, the primary job of any record player, including turntable, arm, and cartridge, is to accurately reproduce the waveform of the music as it was originally recorded onto a vinyl record....

This quote has been lifted from the pages of IAR Magazine compiled by J Peter Moncrieff - Article on the Rockport Sirius III turntable. I note the article is subject to copywrite. Following convention it would be appropriate to acknowledge the correct author.