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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Thekong, You wrote, ..."if that is true, and the DP100M is in the same league as the SP10MK3, P3a etc.,"That's one of the biggest "ifs" I have seen on this thread. First of all, Dover does not say what tonearm and cartridge were used to make the c... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Shane, I was wondering about those buttons, if one were to remove the wood casing. You could probably make some sort of rigid platform to re-mount them in place of the wood.To say that the P3 suspension, which looks like that of a modern sports c... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Shane, Yes, I am aware of its internal construction. Just wondering whether the wood outer "box" that serves only as a cosmetic shroud might resonate a bit. (Even if so, I imagine you could just remove it entirely.) Also, I gather from a person ... | |
| Improve volume from turntable with a new cartridge? You aren't going to find ANY cartridge with an output significantly greater than 5 mV. And if your phono section can make do with only 1mV input, I would say your max'd out as far as being able to drive the linestage section of your integrated am... | |
| Improve volume from turntable with a new cartridge? Your equation has too many unknowns for anyone to give you a good answer to your question. First and foremost, you need to verify that your integrated amplifier does indeed provide phono equalization. There was a time during the downturn in use... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Raul, I think JP already pointed out to you that it is folly to judge any two closely matched turntables in general by factory published specifications, because we don't know how the measurements were made. In particular, we do know that the P3a s... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Shane, Always willing to take the P3 off your hands.... (To answer Henry's question, a man always needs "one more" turntable.)Henry, I am loving the ZYX UNI on the above described Mk3. All my LPs sound better than ever. Did you ever audition the U... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I’ll take "...languid with happiness" from your dictionary. I love the L07D. Note that I wrote "more languid", compared to the Mk3, which is anything but languid. I was also trying to stay away from saying the L07D was "more musical". Before the... | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter While on the one hand, I do not disagree with anything Ralph (Atma-sphere) wrote on this subject, I wonder why there are so many vinylphiles who swear by one or another metal mat, most typically copper ones. I own an SAEC SS300 metal mat, which ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? The Mk3 is king of pace and rhythm, not at the expense of sounding too "tight", for want of a better word. Originally, without the Krebs mod, I would say it did sound a little tight, compared to the L07D. Someone else might prefer the more langu... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Thanks, brf. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Forgot to mention that I built a bearing damper exactly like Albert Porter's idea, into the cherry base of the above plinth. Albert uses a block of iron. I am leery of putting that much iron near the motor's rotor, which in the Mk3 is a gigantic... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Downunder, My Mk3 is mounted in a 70-lb slate slab, 2.5 inches thick. The slab is mated to a solid cherry base that is about the same size as the slate. I epoxy'd some threaded inserts into the slate and bolted the wood base into those, for good... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Pani, I find the correlation between goodness of sound and price, when it comes to cartridges, to be unreliable at best, if not totally non-existent. Thus, if I find a cartridge that is "special", no matter what the cost, I would use it on the bes... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable If a cable is picking up "interference" that indicates you need a cable with better shielding. There might be no other problem with the cable you are using besides lack of adequate shielding. However, if you really do have "hum" at high volumes,... |