billwojo
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| Concerned about my cart/pre pairing I would look into getting a Step Up Transformer (SUT) for your cart to install between the cart and the phono preamp. This will step up the voltage from 0.3mv to about 3 to 5mv that your phono preamp can handle. Right now your phono preamp is maxe... | |
| Vintage Tube amps My rebuilt Mac MC40 monoblocks are awesome and not rolled off at all. Best audio investment I ever made.BillWojo | |
| Zu Audio Modded Denon 103's I've seen those Zu cartridges and never could figure out why they were so much more than other DL-103 carts. The only advantage that I ever saw was they supposedly buy batches of the DL-103 and select the best ones after testing to modify. The fac... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Matsushita was a Japanese giant that bought the majority share of Victor starting in 1953 but pretty much let Victor (JVC) run itself. Victor was a big engineering firm, they are the ones that designed and built the very first quartz locked direct... | |
| JVC TT 71: buy now for spare for my or TT81? best-groove, I feel the same way as you regarding the build quality and really like that substantial motor. I'm not sure but I think the TT71 and the TT81 use the same motor. I think the TT81 has upgraded electronics. As far as the switches go, I'... | |
| JVC TT 71: buy now for spare for my or TT81? There is a TT801 on Yahoo Buyee with less than an hour left and no bids. Starting at $468.12 USD. Missing the vacuum pump and platter mat is not original.Give me a TT71 or TT81, the TT801 and TT101 are to old at this point without extensive mainte... | |
| JVC TT 71: buy now for spare for my or TT81? When I was looking at the Victors I did a lot of research on the TT71, TT81 and the TT101. Since all the talk is about the TT101 and the TT81 the TT71 sort of falls under the radar but if you examine the specifications the TT 71 is only a very tin... | |
| Vinyl...should I stay, or should I go? midareff1 said "@elliottbnewcombjr me thinks vinyl always sounds better at your house because your vinyl gear is far superior to your much older digital stuff."I've listened to Elliott's setup and I don't care how much he upgrades his digital ... | |
| Gimbal vs unipivot tonearms @millercarbon, it sounds like you have had some issues with tonearm cables and headshell connections in the past. If all of your connection points are clean and free of oxidation than there really isn't much to be gained by wiring direct. Check a ... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @knollbrent, what Victor plinth are you using? Elliott and I have the CL2P with two tonearm boards. Elliott managed to mount a third arm on his as well. BillWojo | |
| Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable... Nope, I didn't forget the motor at all. The motor certainly is not directly connected to the platter, there is a compliant rubber coated wheel between the motor shaft and the platter. Speed and W & F should be in the same area as a belt drive ... | |
| Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable... Mijostyn said "There is no way in h--l you are going to keep that many bearings quiet."Huh? On my Russco that I'm restoring there is only one more bearing than my belt drive table. That extra bearing is the bronze bushing in the idler pulley. Good... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Agree 100% with everything that Elliott said. I have the same plinth with a TT71 motor drive, Victor 7045 tonearm and a Audio Technica ATP-12T tonearm in the rear position. It's a dream to use.For belt drive I recently received a Acoustic Solid, S... | |
| Tonearm sugestion I'm sure that German forum has some interesting post but you need to know how to read German. BillWojo | |
| Denon | 110th Anniversary | Silver-Graphite Headshell and DL103 lewm, it's time to pull that old DL-103D out of storage and send it out for a rebuild. It's to nice of a generator to have sitting unused.BillWojo |