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| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Downunder, In your above post, are you suggesting that Technics ought to offer the option of SP10R + plinth but no tonearm? If so, I was thinking the same thing myself. Perhaps that will come eventually. Because there might also be a market for... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B I wish I hadn’t written that, only because I dislike categorical statements as much as you do, Nicola.on the issue of replacing capacitors, those who scoff remind me of those who deny climate change. Aged electrolytic capacitors eventually WILL le... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Chakster, TT101 is not better than mk3. No matter how much you may wish it. | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Not too many of those $1200 to $1400 SP10 Mk2s have already been refurbished, freshened with new electrolytic capacitors where needed, and calibrated by someone who knows what they are doing. That’s what bugs me when I read that someone compared ... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Pani, thank you for your detailed report. The Technics on those AT footers is very different from the very same turntable placed into a massive plinth. You heard the Mk2 one of the two ways it should be used. True, the “no-plinth” approach has ... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Chakster, What you say about tax is true in Tokyo. Only the big stores, however, want to be bothered with the paperwork needed in order not to charge the tax. And one would need to present a valid passport, of course. Of all the stores I have s... | |
| Upgrade tonearm for Lenco L75 turntable jean natais plinth to perhaps a Durand Kairos ? I’d do what folkfreak recommended. Then measure out the pivot to spindle distance for either the Kairos or the Talea, using of course the spindle of your Lenco for one reference. See where the pivot point would fall on your arm board. This will ... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) As you know, I have a Reed 2A, 10.5-inch, on my Mk3. I lust a bit for the 3P. I think this new pivoting/SL tonearm is called the 5T. It seems to work like the Schroeder LT; the base moves as the tonearm traverses the LP, so as to maintain a str... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Wow. Thanks for the recommendations. I too am interested in the Yamamoto CF headshell, but I did not see any Yamamoto products in any of the 3 high-end stores I have so far visited. Today I did buy an Oyaide HS-CF, perhaps close to the Yamamoto.... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Even if a local (Japan) 10R is set up for 100V, that is no problem at all. Good robust step down transformers for AC are very easy to find and very cheap. I already have two turntables at home, my L07D and my DP80, running off 115V to 100V step do... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Chakster, Why are you so obsessed with market values? Who gives a hoot? (I use the word “hoot” in lieu of an obscenity.) My prediction is that there will be a difference between the two up or down, and that the difference is so small as to be n... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Brf, Yep. At this very moment, my SP10 mk3 power supply is with JP for installation of his replacement chip and calibration. I have been completely satisfied with the MK3; it is the best of my 5 turntables, albeit maybe by only a small margin ov... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, I am glad that JCarr finally mentioned the fact that most LOMCs I know about have a much lower nominal inductance than the 0.5mH, on which you based your first set of calculations, and thank you for re-calculating your results based on more r... | |
| Soundsmith Optimized Contour Contact Line Stylus for Rebuild Again, Raul, the OP did not ask for a comparison between boron and ruby cantilevers. He did ask for “opinions of those who used this stylus (referring to the SS Ruby cantilever/OCL stylus)”. That’s what I wrote about, and only that. I have neve... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) I am in Tokyo for the next two weeks. Today I saw both the 10R and the 1000R, on display and on sale at a store in Akihabara (the electronics Mecca in Tokyo). The 10R is 864,000 yen and the 1000R is 1,728,000 yen. Just for displaying my passpor... |