jpjones3318
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| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 Hi @lewm For that mod I'd recommend machining a new base pillar cap to be able to fit a cable retainer. You'd either need to solder the IC at the bottom of the base pillar, or run thin-guage wire the whole way through from the connection PCB in... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 Don't forget the EPA-A505. | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 @chakster The 100MK2, while similar, has a noteable difference. The bearing pivots on the 100 are spring-loaded and hard-chromed. The 100MK2 uses the same pivots as the B500 which are not hard-chromed nor spring-loaded. The spring-loading doesn... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 Most of the arms I see, if not obviously broken (shattered/missing balls), will typically present with at east one pitted ball in a bearing. These can seem to work fine until that pit works its way around to the running surface of the race or pivo... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? Hi @dover - hope you've been well. So you believe the frequency generator, speed and phase control circuits meet current state of the art performance do you, even though the SP10 uses 70’s chips and we now have chips capable of switching at a tril... | |
| Sound-Smith retipping There was a guy several weeks back that received a seriously botched repair from them. He said they refused to make it right but did so after he escalated to Peter. Purportedly they refunded the repair in full be he’s SOL on the cartridge which ... | |
| Technics SP10 MK3 Restoration @dover has he started providing any meaningful measurements yet? The machine work does look rather nice, but I had to admit that I stopped paying much attention when he made the claim that the MK3 was digital. @billwojo I know one of the supplier... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? There's no recipe for this stuff. Some of the motors I've used for donor parts I don't even know what 'table they came from, and unless you can somehow find one with compatible properties some degree of circuit modification is inevitable. That's... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? Yes but no one has addressed the major problem with the SP10mk3 - that is the antiquated error correction circuitry based on obsolete chips that results in errors and overshoot.The Technics SP10 servos use algortihms to estimate predicted errors a... | |
| Technics SL-1210GAE Anniversary delivery . Everything I’ve bought from Japan, save a few overweight items, I had shipped EMS which delivers via USPS here. FedEx and the automatic duties is a deterrent. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? 60mm hole. The mounting plate on the back of the armboard will be 69mm or 79mm depending which version. | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Finally, I can login. None of the units I've worked on have had selectable transformer taps. It may be that the Japanese domestic units did not while some of the export units did. At any rate, it looks like Totem may have a rare unit. | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? Halcro10-01-2019 6:45amYou're right Lewm in your recollection of JP Jones' skepticism about Victor's Patented Bi-Directional Servo......And then Hiho (I think) produced all the World Patent Documents for it which floored JP who said he needed to r... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Platter continuing to rotate after you press the stop button is associated with calibration. A well calibrated turntable should stop pretty much dead when you press the stop button. But my TT101, which was calibrated by JP and works wonderfully, ... | |
| What about diamond cantilever/stylus combo @chakster yes. |