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| 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... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Hi Henry, Yes, I can hear subtle differences among them, and yes, it is impossible or at least very difficult to sort out the root causes of those differences because of the tonearm/cartridge differences. However, I think those of us who regularl... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? I've got a Victor TT101, too. And a much tweaked and modified Lenco sitting next to it in one of my two systems. The TT101 is very linear sounding and very musical. Linear in the sense that no particular register is emphasized (bass vs mids vs ... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? In the interim since he initiated this thread on the EMT 927, Thuchan purchased, restored, and re-plinthed a Victor TT101, no slouch among direct-drive aficionados. I would like to know how he feels about the EMT 927 in comparison to his new TT10... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Dentdog, There is no need to be apologetic regarding your affection for the Resomat. You have lots of respectable company in that regard. Like I may have written elsewhere, if not here, I am curious to try one myself. In the past year, I had an... | |
| MM/MI Phono Stages If you insist on front-panel adjustability for load and capacitance, there are only a few choices, either vintage Japanese or modern ones that may or may not include MC gain options inseparable from the design. EAR is one I can think of right awa... | |
| Bad NOS tubes... Jea48, First, I apologize for sounding so pedantic. Your post actually prompted me to do some research on the metals used in tube pins. In the URL you provided, are you referring to this passage?: "The 6DJ8 family was originally developed by Amp... |