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| Loricraft Garrard 301 to Dobbins Sp10 Mk3 - What can I expect ? Ok. But you're getting the main benefit: removing the motor from the OEM chassis and installing it directly into a non-resonant support structure. I guess the Beat has a modified or brand new platter, as well. I don't know how much benefit that ... | |
| Loricraft Garrard 301 to Dobbins Sp10 Mk3 - What can I expect ? Chakster, "Kondo the Beat" is likely to be the turntable that Pani bought. Dobbins took the motor assembly out of a Mk3 chassis and sank it into his plinth, which is made of some non-resonant material, but I don’t remember what it is. Thus Steve g... | |
| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? To the OP: As you apparently realized mid way through the barrage of responses, your question is not about whether digital recordings of one cartridge vs another would reveal differences between them. Your question is really specific to the Sugar... | |
| Reminiscing about Dual and AR turntables Almost everyone who is old enough went through the cycle of owning an AR-XA and a Dual of some type or other. I think those turntables can be regarded with nostalgia but not a desire to re-visit them, albeit one or two of the Dual turntables can ... | |
| Loricraft Garrard 301 to Dobbins Sp10 Mk3 - What can I expect ? Pani, You contacted me privately. I have heard a Dobbins SP10 Mk3, sitting in the room with Steve Dobbins himself at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, back in 2011, I think. I listened for more than an hour to music of different types. The tonearm ... | |
| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? Michael Fremer is betting that the answer to your question is "yes". He's been doing this for the past few years and posting the tracks on his website. Most who have auditioned the tracks seem to hear differences among and between cartridges. A... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? The only problem is LewM doesn’t own a p3. He used to lust after one, but he is now very happy with what he has. However, if some day Lew’s audiophile angel were to descend from heaven and present Lew with a p3, Lew would be ecstatic. Unfortunatel... | |
| Can I substitute a 12AU7WA for a 12AU7 in a Primalina amp? In this modern era of tube fakery, nothing means anything, in my opinion. However there is no electrical difference between a 12AU7WA and a 12AU7. Tubes labeled ECC82 would also be acceptable. This is to say that you could pop any of these tubes i... | |
| What is the fascination? Can you say, "dripping with sarcasm"?kahlenz, You are more elitist than you know. Expense-wise, it’s just the other way around. A basically high quality vintage turntable (usually not to be found in any grandfather’s closet), if properly refurbish... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Unless your LP is in terrible condition, I don't see how letting the stylus ride in the run-out grooves for a half a minute or so, while you overcome your intertia and get up to change the LP, is going to hurt it. So, I agree with Chakster. I do... | |
| Harmon Kardon ST-7 with Rabco Tonearm Stringreen, I do think that the tonearm on the ST7 tonearm was a low cost version of the original Rabco SL tonearm, designed specifically and only for the ST7 and never used again. Nor was it ever sold separately. It was therefore either designe... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Raul, thanks for that quote from Vintage Knob. Perhaps I failed to read that whole sentence when I consulted VK but as I recall their blurb on the PD444 stated the model number of the M-S motor used by Luxman in that table. I didnt note that it wa... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A Phono Preamp....anyone familiar? I am reminded of the great movie, “Manchurian Candidate”. Were you guys all prisoners of war in Korea, together with Keith Herron, by any chance? | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? Shane (Downunder), Good on you! Great array of turntables and I’m jealous of your P 3. I recently had a copper mat custom made for my L07D and the improvement in SQ was beyond my expectation. | |
| What is the fascination? Tz, keep in mind that Raul eventually recanted and came to declare that low output moving coil cartridges as a class were superior to moving magnet and other types of cartridges. Personally I do not share Chakster’s unequivocal preference for mov... |