belt drives can have speed control, either mechanically or electronically, and almost all that I've seen do
My rec?
Skip the Turntable and buy a better DAC, feed it from a hard drive-based media server, and look forward. It is almost 2010, and Edison invented the record in 1877!
Well.... you did ask...
well I have a nice digital front end and essentially an entry level analog front end. the digital new retail is about 5x as expensive and guess what... I prefer the analog.
Some well engineered SACDs come close to producing the liquidity of analog but I still prefer my vinyl.
At Rocky Mountain Audio fest this year I heard all kinds of systems and the hard drive based systems just left me feeling cold. Even the really high dollar systems. I heard a B&W 802d, ayre monoblock, ayre pre, ayre dac, mac mini system some months back and felt the same way.
Give me tubes and give me vinyl... some horns would be nice too
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So, when the CD's have rotted away, and the DATS have flaked off, and the HDD servers have crashed, the vinyl and shellac will still hold the music for hundreds of more years into the future.
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What he said.
To each their own but to me it's not even a contest. I get by far the most enjoyment out of my system when I'm spinning vinyl.