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| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Theories are great.....I know of tonearm designers who can convince you that Uni-pivots are theoretically superior to gimballed tonearms....But hey....they can both work fine.I know some turntable designers who can convince you that belt-drive hig... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Haha Don....I would rarely talk trash about belt-drives in general as I have one myself and enjoy it immensely ☺️But when they start charging $30 Grand-$200 Grand for gigantic belt drives whose performances can be matched (or bettered) by $1000 we... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? A few weeks ago I saw a TT-101 in the Victor wood base with tonearm and mounting boards for two other arms asking less than $2,000 on HiFiDo. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Lewm, I was speaking generally after hiho posted his interesting (as always) info about Yamaha using Victor/JVC motors and electronics.if you follow HiFiDo you will see that mountains of GT 750s and GT 1000s sell for around $1,000 and GT 2000s are... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I would kill for another of those Yamaha brass and wood record weights.Do you see any of these come up on Yahoo Japan sampsa? | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Great info again hiho, but it only begs the question initially asked....why do the Japanese place more value on turntables made by a company like Yamaha which used the brain-power and production-power of JVC/Victor at the same time as almost ignor... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Without pre-empting Thuchan's report here eventually....http://audio16.com/2016/04/08/a-good-table-deserves-a-good-plinth/ | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Welcome to the Thread fast_mick.You're right about the perceived 'value' of certain brands in the Japanese or Asian marketplace and yes......JVC/Victor is not so highly prized there whereas the Yamaha 750GT/1000GT are so numerous I'd swear they we... | |
| OK...I've ditched my mono cartridge What are the "very high end stereo" you claim I've compared it to? | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? From a 6 Moons Review of the Walker...The base is crushed marble in a lead and epoxy resin and gorgeous. The Platter is 75 lbs. of encapsulated lead, the most resonance-free material known to man. It also used to be on Walker's website but I see t... | |
| Advice on cables for Classe Sigma, Classe CAM 5300, Halcro DM78 & B&W 800D"s Ultrab, are you using the Halcros in balanced mode or single ended? | |
| Advice on cables for Classe Sigma, Classe CAM 5300, Halcro DM78 & B&W 800D"s Hi ultrab,you can see my Systems Pagehttps://systems.audiogon.com/systems/758Regards | |
| Advice on cables for Classe Sigma, Classe CAM 5300, Halcro DM78 & B&W 800D"s I suggest you've never heard them properly set-up.....? | |
| Advice on cables for Classe Sigma, Classe CAM 5300, Halcro DM78 & B&W 800D"s Playing with interconnects and speaker cables is fine but a word of warning with the Halcro amps.I've had the DM10 preamp and DM58 monoblocks for nearly 10 years and they are mysteriously affected by after-market power cables. I have tried half a ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Flieb,I like your idea of a lead platter mat, but as you've found...I don't know how to maintain a constant thickness with sheet lead?It is so malleable that you can depress it with your fingertip.....The only solution I can imagine, would be to l... |