I have tried manually rotating the platter and stopping it at different spots, it still always rotates backwards on its own after the playback has come to a complete stop. The surface its standing on is levelled, i can even hold it up in an angle and it still rotates counterclockwise a couple of millimeter when stopping playback regardless where i stop it.
It is clear you’re not really bothered by this on your unit, but i am.
Seeing as there are other people who has noticed the same thing it would be great to hear from someone at Denon if this is something that they consider a malfunction, an unavoidable byproduct of the motor they use or if it is an intended feature. I am still unsure if i should or could return the unit in the hopes of getting a unit that has a motor similar to the one on my other SC5000M which doesn’t have this problem. (i have a warranty so if it is indeed something that shouldn’t happen with these players i’d like to know sooner rather than later)
Thanks for your replies and workarounds for dealing with this issue though.