SPEC GMP-8000EX

✓ The merit of string driven turntable system
✓ Built in manual adjustment mechanism for necessary string tension

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Description

This very simple structure turntable system would have one of the ideal figuration for getting high quality reproducing. Because that it’s component is only a few parts, a turntable, a motor and a string. They don’t need any other mechanical structure or parts. And so if we had done research on each component, we could manage to reach at certain quality level. I should agree that belt driven turntable system has same component like as string driven system except belt. Well, which would be desirable belt or string? It’s a hard question because that belt and also string have each advantage and disadvantage. A belt is made of some elastic material, such as grinded urethane rubber. And the tension by this elasticity, 5% to 10% added extension, can transfer the torque for turntable.

So it is easy to install and use. On the contrary, string has some difficulties to manage. Speaking strictly, string has some elasticity like as belt, but if we adopt string for the system, we have to use very critical only a few % added extension for getting nonslip transmission between pulley and string. And so making a full use of string is quite difficult. But this string has tremendous virtue. The string could transmit the circumferential velocity of the motor pulley to the turntable velocity without any delay. Because that the string works as rigid material rather than elastic body. At the same time, the belt itself is elastic material and so the motor pulley and the turntable work with some springs and dampers because of this elastic body. And it inevitably causes some delay of the motor servo, when the load of turntable fluctuates. We could sum up, fundamentally the string driven turntable system can bring out outstanding high precision rotational accuracy according to constant-speed rotation of the motor, the most significant necessary requirement for turntable system.