lewm
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| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable I agree. I am done buying TT's except out of curiosity and my predilection for great vintage products as gadgets. | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Nandric,I think a magnetic set-up could provide for variation of the force with respect to the radius of the LP, depending upon how it is implemented. So, since there are many tonearms that use magnetic methods, why is the Sony so much better?To t... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable Raul, I don't disagree with you in your objective judgement of the TT101 and the DP80. If you think of them only on the basis of what you can read about them, their build solidity, and their specs, then they indeed are not even meant to compete i... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable Dear Raul, And you need to read again my response to your earlier post that suggested I should re-read the blurb on Vintage Knob, which contains many errors of fact, at least as regards some other vintage turntables, I might add. For example, assu... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable Raul, I generally would pay no attention to specifications published by a manufacturer, although I would assume that actual units perform "close enough" to the published specs. But I would never use such information to make a fine distinction bet... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable I went to the URL provided by Theophile. The guys on Audiokarma seem to have been in general agreement that owning one of these vintage beasts is risky, in terms of their non-repairability if something breaks. I have to say that I disagree with ... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 Turntable Compared to most of the other top of the line vintage Japanese direct-drive turntables, the GT2000 is readily available in Tokyo, every time I have been there and touring the audio salons. (Our son lives in Tokyo, so I am there once every couple ... | |
| Lyra Kleos vs Koetsu Urushi I agree with Maril on the sound qualities of the Urushi. I think all Koetsu's get lumped with the original Rosewood, which perhaps does/did have those shortcomings in the extreme bass and extreme treble registers. The Urushi does not, and neither... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Got to see an SL1200G "in the flesh" this weekend at the CAF in Rockville, MD. Visual inspection suggests that it is much better built than the original SL1200; it has an almost jewel-like quality, even though the basic shapes are entirely borrow... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Dear Audiolabyrinth, Apart from current offerings from Win Tinnon (Saskia) and OMA, I don't think there ever was a commercially made slate plinth for anything. The original OEM plinth for the SP10 Mk3 was a nice one made of obsidian (I think). I... | |
| Your worst gaffes Back in the 80s, an audiophile friend and I each acquired Decca London cartridges. Being tinkerers, we early on discovered that one could remove the "lid" from the cartridge body and thereby gain access to its innards. There were two little scre... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Billallen, You are certainly entitled to your conclusion that direct-drive turntables "need" a tuned suspension, but there is a legion of direct-drive aficionados who would disagree with you. Yes, it's important to isolate any turntable from envir... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? "With an unsuspended mass-loaded turntable of any kind, that centrifugal force is absorbed and thus resisted by the mass of the supporting structure." I don't want to say "I told you so", but I did tell you so back when that was a point of conten... | |
| Magnetic isolation What this proves is that you hear a difference between your particular magnetic levitation system and your particular "contact based" support system, in favor of the former. From this sort of one-off experiment it is perhaps premature to generali... | |
| What is Technics thinking? As an owner of an SP10 Mk3, I have no problem with Artisan Fidelity. Their workmanship and engineering are superb. Now, whether any amount of workmanship and engineering done to create a plinth are worth the premium they charge is not for me to d... |