Which vintage direct drive?
I read a lot about these TT-101 turntables being 100v etc. These turntables all have a voltage selector. Japanese turntables does NOT have voltage selectors, they are 100v. Regarding TT-101 JP Jones confirmed that a sample with voltage selector is not a common sample. I can add that export version called JVC, not Victor (which is a Japanese version). Every 100v turntable can be used with step down (or step up) transformer and it's fine! |
My choice: Luxman PD-444 Denon DP-80 Victor TT-101 Technics SP-10mk2 Technics SP-20 from this list i think Luxman PD-444 is the best of them all in terms of usability for almost any tonearm, designed for two arms (long and short). Victor tt-101 is the most problematic, hard, expensive or impossible to fix. You may never find a working sample. Technics is great, but not for "9 inch arm. Denon is nice! |
My particular TT101 works on 120V or 100V as selected at the transformer primary. Yet it is labeled “Victor”. The acronym JVC doesn’t appear anywhere. I’ve read that it was made for sale to American servicemen stationed in Japan, but that’s just from one source. It can vary from country to country, in Germany they are JVC as far as I know. Anyway my Japanese TT-101 now at JP Jones Workshop and it’s 100v. |
