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A turntable is generally a rotatingplatform, and may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... This article is about rotation as a movement of a physical body. ... The word platform is used in several different contexts including various topics: In rail transport, a railway platform is an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams. ...
A constant speed, motor driven phonograph/gramophone. The increasingly skillful use of turntables by DJs to mix and scratch records has given rise to the term turntablism and has lead to professional CD players with the same capability.
Turntable (railroad), a device used at some railroad facilities to turn locomotives or other rolling stock around, or onto one of several radially arranged rail tracks (a rotary transfer table)
Turntable (motor vehicle), a motorized or manual device, usually installed in a driveway or on a garage floor, that rotates a motor vehicle to facilate an easier or safer egress of the vehicle
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After the success I had with my homebrew tonearm, I decided to build a turntable that is able to fathom the sonic delicacies that the tonearm is able to produce.
Therefore the turntable is made to large parts out of wood.
One more or less often used synchronous turntablemotor is this or that Premotec model.
On the Rek-O-Kut and the Garrard the power gets to the turntable by means of a "rim drive"; that is, the final agent is a bard-rubber drive wheel which locks into position between the motor's axle spindle and the inside rim of the turntable.
On the Scott the turntable drive is direct: that is, the drive shaft of the motor locks into one of three gears on another drive shaft, which in turn is geared to the center of the turntable.
A turntable does not become a record player until you add a tone arm, which must be separately purchased and mounted.