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| How good is the Micro Seiki DDX-1000 Direct Drive turntable ? I think Chak’s last post was around February, 2021. Since then he is off this grid. I repeat, Dang, you are best off to check the speed accuracy unloaded and under load (with cartridge engaged on an LP). If speed is stable, brakes can be repaire... | |
| How good is the Micro Seiki DDX-1000 Direct Drive turntable ? Cleeds, on the Kenwood L07D, the SP10 Mk3, and the Denon DP80, the respective brakes are actuated electronically, when you press the off switch, but the brake itself is mechanical; pads push against the spindle or platter to bring it to a halt. An... | |
| Vintage Technics SL-1300 poltergeist--help! That was a joke, by the way. I don’t use a DC during play because the ones I’ve used add an unpleasant coloration and/or feedback related sonic problems. Others take a different (minority) view. | |
| How good is the Micro Seiki DDX-1000 Direct Drive turntable ? If it’s a mechanical problem and all else is working perfectly I wouldn’t worry. But you’ll have to stop the platter by hand until you fix the brake mechanism obviously. If it’s electronic the TT may need to be calibrated. That also is no big deal... | |
| Vintage Technics SL-1300 poltergeist--help! Serves you right for using the dust cover while playing records. | |
| Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records Sorry for being so pedantic, but first of all ALL enzymes are proteins, not just most of them or some of them. In general, enzymes act to catalyze chemical reactions that would happen anyway but happen much faster if mediated by an enzyme. (That's... | |
| Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records Drbond, if a “sealed, mint” LP does not respond to the cleaning you’ve already done, I’d give up and either toss those LPs or tolerate them as is. I doubt any further cleaning will fix them. Good money after bad, and all that. | |
| SPL Stereo Vitalizer Mk2-T (tube) a beast of a loudness control at $1295 You may like what it does, but nothing in your description reminds me of a classical loudness control. As you may know, a loudness control is supposed to compensate for the Fletcher Munson curve imposed by our own hearing apparatus, where mid rang... | |
| Vintage Technics SL-1300 poltergeist--help! Is the onset of the malfunction temporally related to when you removed the counterweight? And yes, I think the channel could be there to enhance structural rigidity. | |
| WallySkater and Reference. Correct. The full range one I bought from Australia to replace the OEM treble toroid is huge and out of production, but it used alone was insufficient to get decent bass response from my 845PXs. The SL bass transformer is necessary. I use an induc... | |
| How do you organize all this turntable paraphernalia?? I have a beautiful antique side board that resides within a few feet of my equipment rack; all that crap is in drawers of the side board. One drawer has fuses, spare ICs for repair of vintage DD turntables, and the like. Another bigger drawer has ... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm My 50 years in this hobby tell me there’s nothing really new under the sun. I understand that you may feel obligated not to reveal your sources, but you must also realize that your policy in that regard reduces the usefulness of your comments to ... | |
| WallySkater and Reference. One transformer won’t work for both great low bass and extended treble. Different turns ratios are optimal for each. But maybe you could get away with it since you’re removing frequencies below 100Hz. You’re on your own there. | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm Pindac, why are you so secretive regarding the entity that modified your tonearm, especially since you here reveal that they have a product for sale in the current market? One cannot otherwise benefit from your murky descriptions. “Murky” in the s... | |
| WallySkater and Reference. I replaced the treble transformer with a full range transformer and run it in parallel with the OEM bass transformer. There’s a bit more to it but not much. |