lewm
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| Add a volume remote? I’m using a Khozmo shunt attenuator in my preamplifier. It is indeed very good. But in my case it sits inside an active circuit. | |
| Should I keep the Turntable or sell it? Take a deep breath and keep what you’ve got for a while. The foregoing conflicting bits of advice should be reason enough to take it slow. With all respect to Chakster, I am really rather surprised at some of his pro-Technics opinions, because in ... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable Chakster from the text you quote, it seems that the new product is a “real transformer“ in that it has a primary and a secondary that are discrete from each other. This provides the mentioned galvanic isolation. What you have been using sounds lik... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? 13blm, just to continue this conversation, I would point out that the bearing of a belt drive turntable is under a unique stress that does not pertain to direct drive and most idler drive turntables, in that there is a sideways force pulling on t... | |
| Add a volume remote? If you are going to use a passive attenuator, remote or otherwise, you need to be certain that there is no impedance mismatch between the device putting signal into the volume control and the device being driven by the output of the volume contro... | |
| Should I keep the Turntable or sell it? Why the fascination with Rega?i’d say stick with what you have for at least several months before you jump to something else. Also, and this may be unfair criticism, there are some who claim that the low end to mid level Rega tt’s tend to run “fas... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Melm, so, where is it that I don’t know what I’m talking about? I own an eagle and road runner. Together they run my Lenco very well and accurately. The servo device in the Kenwood L07D also has a loose operating point in that it only makes corre... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Alex, Sorry to contradict you, but most vintage Japanese DD turntables used light-ish platters. The most notable exception is the SP10 Mk3, which has a 21-lb platter. The Pioneer Exclusive P3 also had a fairly heavy platter, but not as heavy as ... | |
| TIGER PAW "Tranquility" (Magnetic Bearing Repulsion...) Any Good? Even that approach is not entirely novel. The Kenwood L07D also uses partial magnetic levitation to reduce the downward force on the bearing, but the spindle is in contact with the bearing. | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Chakster, If you see Harold's follow up post, it seems that he really found no substantive fault with his PD444, except that you could say it was too perfect, and he prefers his belt-drive. Personal taste has a lot to do with this.Harold, From wh... | |
| turntable skipping with footsteps Even 11 years after this thread was kaput, yes, a wall shelf (e.g., Target) does work decently well even in "wooden houses". The trick is to select a weight-bearing wall for mounting. Most wooden houses built in the last 40-50 years in the US ha... | |
| TIGER PAW "Tranquility" (Magnetic Bearing Repulsion...) Any Good? Geoff, So long as the belt (assuming a BD drive system) is in direct contact with the platter structure, I see no way there could be "slippage" or excessive compliance if the platter is suspended magnetically. Although I guess you may be referrin... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Alex, Funnily enough, I went from SOTA Star Sapphire III to Nottingham Analog Hyperspace (a big improvement) to modified Lenco (a big improvement over the Notts) to my current stable that still includes the Lenco plus four vintage DD turntables: D... | |
| TIGER PAW "Tranquility" (Magnetic Bearing Repulsion...) Any Good? If what you say is true there is no issue, but unless I misunderstood, Daveyf’s post of 6-16-2018 suggested the drive is magnetic a la the Transrotor TMD system. Sorry if I and others got it wrong. | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Alex, SP 10 mk3 definitely does have a pitch control; it’s built into the outboard power supply.Fremer’s “hunting” hypothesis is the favorite criticism of DD by those who prefer belt drive, but it is very unfair to apply what is or may be a proble... |