For over 30 years, New Jersey’s VPI Industries has been making some of the world’s finest belt-drive turntables. With its new Classic Direct-Drive Turntable, the company takes a different design approach. Introduced in the late 1960s, direct-drive turntables use a motor placed directly beneath the record platter and attached to it. (The motor of a belt-drive table, by contrast, is offset from the platter and spins it using a connected belt or band.) Direct-drive tables typically offer superior stability and re…