A direct-drive turntable is one of the three main phonograph designs currently being produced. The other styles are the belt-drive turntable and the idler-wheel type.[citation needed] Each name is based upon the type of coupling used between the platter of the turntable and the motor.
Direct-drive turntables are currently the most popular phonographs, due to their widespread use for turntablism in DJ culture.[1][2] Panasonic's Technics series were among the first direct-drive turntables,[3][4] and remain the most popular series of turntables.[1][2], the ground-breaking innovation of the Technics direct drive system is the use of the platter as a part of the motor thereby reducing the number of components. However, this was not the first electric direct drive turntable. In 1928 Swiss company Paillard - later owners of Bolex cameras, Hermes typewriters and Thorens turntables and audio equipment - applied for a patent for a direct drive turntable motor which was granted by the Swiss Patent Office on 2 June 1929 and the well known turntable manufacturer “Thorens produced a series of direct drive turntables in the early nineteen fifties: CD 43 Record Changer, CBA-83 Automatic Player, CB-33P Manual Player and E-53PA Turntable (Motor Deck). They all had the E 53 N motor”.(quoted from http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/td124page.html)
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