For jazz and classical, it is sublime. For rock and electronic, the quartz lock keeps complex passages from smearing.
Because of the quartz-locked motor, the Q200 does not suffer from the "belt-drive sag" that plagues cheaper tables. The transient response—how quickly the note starts and stops—is sharp. Drum hits have a physicality usually associated with direct-drive tables, but without the edgy, grainy hash that can come from early direct-drive systems. hacker q200