gp49
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| Help required with tracking problem Something I forgot to mention:You may be using an electronic stylus pressure gauge, but with BOTH the Shure V15 IV and the Stanton 681EEE you can't just measure it and leave it at that. The reading for the Shure must be increased by 0.5 gram over ... | |
| Help required with tracking problem I think it's a tracking problem with your 681EEE. The Stantons which tracked really well (they are discontinued now) were the 881S and its descendants, such as the 981 series and the 880 series (actually the same as the 881 but not calibrated). Th... | |
| Can a vintage piece over 40 years old be Highend Take a look at the monster Audiogon thread, "Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot" in the Analog section. It concerns rehabilitating and remounting idler-wheel turntables...primarily Lenco, but also Garrard 301/401, Thorens TD-124 and th... | |
| What tt 's have you sold after getting a Lenco? I don't have a Lenco in my system (yet); it's a newly restored cream, grease-bearing Garrard 301 that has banished the belt-drives. A much-modified AR turntable including custom-built armboard integrated with the subchassis, would now be on the bl... | |
| Best "P" mount cartridge? The original Sumiko Blue Point, which I still have, was a P-mount; the current version is NOT. Sometimes the original can still be found as NOS.Also you may occasionally run across as NOS, several of the older Grado cartridges which were available... | |
| Are the TT's of the 70-80 as good as the new ones As mentioned, there are turntables even older than the 70s-80s that are better than the new ones. The Lencos date to the early 1960s, the Garrard 301 to the late 1950s! In a proper plinth and skillfully restored to good running order, they will ea... | |
| Good Semi-automatic Turntables ? Garrard, in their advertising of the Lab 80 Automatic Transcription Turntable in the mid-60s, said that automatic lift-off and shut-off adds an entirely new dimension of pleasure to record playing. My version is not available new; I happened acros... |