Ah yes, the record store guy, who paradoxically often knows very little about record players!

With the greatest respect to record store guys, this isn’t a judgement, just an observation based on experience – several of my customers are record store guys, one owns a record store! Nice people, good tastes, but rarely experienced enough with serious equipment to be offering opinions like this. This is true of most of what you’ll read and hear.

There are excellent belt-drive and direct-drive turntables. It’s not the drive method alone or even mostly that determines system performance. Unfortunately, most people aren’t interested in the technical details, nor have they been exposed to the range of equipment necessary to form a valid opinion on this important point.

How many record store guys do you think have listened to an SL-1000, PD-350 or L-07D for example, let alone owned several of these grail machines? Simply put, most people will never hear an end-game turntable and this lack of experience and knowledge lies at the heart of misinformation you’ll often read and hear.

As we always say here at Liquid Audio: knowledge is power. You want the truth? Speak to someone who actually knows what it is!