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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I got riled up because I could perceive no "opinion" in the context of our first post. In fact, I could perceive no point of view at all except to point out the fact that Quartz is an organic material. Anyway, I do apologize for my tone. I may ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Frank,What’s your point?The weekend that men landed on the moon, in 1969, my then wife and I were on the way to Martha’s Vineyard for a vacation. We had stopped in New Haven to visit my grandmother, and my wife would not leave until she could find... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Belt drive? We don' need no stinkin' belt drive! | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Peter, That would be a very low average price for any Mk3 that is in decent cosmetic and electrical shape. Someone got a good deal. Fully done Mk3's in a quality plinth have sold for more than $12K. I paid more than $5K for mine with no plinth,... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking AL, The operative word in your first sentence is "theoretically". Yes, an SL tonearm is theoretically perfect, but it is never actually perfect, which is one reason why the SL type does not completely dominate the high end of the market. The othe... | |
| turntable speed control Melm and cleeds, My apologies. I was to some degree playing for laughs.Anyone tired of fiddling with belts and belt tension might want to consider any of several vintage Japanese direct-drive turntables, the creme de la creme, not the bargain bas... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong mmakshak, In your post of 4-15, I am not sure what you are referring to. I took no issue with anything PL said about stylus wear. I only noted that his brief reference to headshell offset angle as being THE cause of skating force is not quite ac... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong I am curious about a long length, underhung tonearm. None seem to exist, yet it would appear to be an interesting option, curing one of the problems with the available underhung tonearms (they tend to be short in length which increases the tracki... | |
| Has anyone recently had any slow response with Sound-Smith repairs There is another long thread on this topic. Turns out Peter Ledermann has been dealing with major illness in his family, and he is the one and only one who can sign off on a rebuild. This seems to have slowed them down a bit. Based on the testimon... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong I suspect that there is always a tiny amount of tracking error and a tiny amount of skating force and that both are so small in magnitude and so relatively constant across the LP surface that these two qualities (small and constant, compared to a ... | |
| turntable speed control Melm wrote, "...belt drives (which may measure worse in some respects) sound better." This is so so wrong and short-sighted. Yet, CLeeds agrees with him. Well designed and implemented turntables of any kind sound better than those that are not w... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong Flieb, Thanks for saying exactly the same thing that I said in fewer words and without the physics lesson. If my point(s) were moot, your points are moot-er. I realize that an experienced person such as yourself would have the facts well in hand... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong Peter Lederman probably has forgotten more about vinyl set-up than I will ever know, but I do have to disagree with him on one small point; the genesis of the skating force begins with the fact that 95% of tonearms are mounted so as to have the st... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong I guess we shouldn't post any longer to this thread, because Inna is bored, but I was rather surprised to read that go4vinyl and Raul suggest the problem of unequal gain in one channel vs the other could be due to azimuth maladjustment. In fact (... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? It's just how things go in the collector market. Apparently, 2000Xs are right now highly desired in Asia. If you really can buy a Mk3 for $5K on Yahoo Japan, you might grab it; they are worth a lot more, up to twice that much, in the US. Many/m... |