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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry, As I now understand it, the 300 series Acutex's are induced magnet types (of that I am certain), but the later end of run 400 series cartridges are conventional moving magnet types. So, it would not surprise me if they sound very different... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Peter, It's more like "TT101 vs Mk3 vs L07D". There are too many other variables to reach a scientifically objective conclusion, especially since the conclusion is unavoidably subjective. I am thinking the TT101 does crush my Lenco, and I am a l... | |
| SP-10 parts substitution Any switch capable of handling 120VAC and a relatively low current would work. That's no problem at all. But you probably want to preserve the originality of your deck by fixing the original one, or at least to keep it looking original externally... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Cheers to you as well, JP.Just to bump this thread, which to me is more interesting than "what cartridge to use on a Reed 3P?", I will add after another night of listening to a wide variety of LPs, good and mediocre in sonic quality, that this com... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Like Chakster implied, it depends on the effective mass of the Reed what one would recommend, because each Reed can be had in something like six different species of wood that vary quite a bit in density. I have a Red Cedar 10.5-inch Reed 2A (abo... | |
| Need New MM Cartridge Recommendation Ortofon 2M Black and AT150MLX seem to be much admired, if they fall within financial constraints in terms of cost. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I've had two days listening to the TT101. I am beginning to actually believe that it is going to work consistently. Saturday I listened to it for a few hours with the OEM rubber mat. Then today all day, I switched to the SAEC SS300 mat. This c... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Dover, Did not see your last post until now. Rest assured I was joking about using an ADC XLM on an FR64S. That would be an extreme worst case scenario, indeed. I don't own an XLM anyway. I just got my TT101 up and running for the first time, ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Thanks, Raul. Indeed, I thought you were one of the guys who advocated not paying attention to tonearm effective mass. However, even back in those days, were you not running those active subwoofers. More than once back then you emphatically adv... | |
| How to clean vinyl records One of many simple and cheap ways to do it is to get a flat pan deep enough and large enough to submerge a record. Get also a soft brush, preferably one that is designed for LP brushing. There several choices out there. Fill the pan with tap wa... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Wrm, If you don't mind I'd like to post a question to some of the other FR tonearm users. Over on Raul's now quiet thread about MM cartridges (I think that's where I saw these posts), there were several who said that they used the FR64S and even ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? My experience agrees with JP's. The OEM mat(s) on my Mk2A and Mk3 were identical, although I don't know the part number. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Yes, I measured the circumference of both, and I noticed that the TT101 casing/shield has a larger circumference by about ~1.5", which, divided by pi, would be consistent with an ~0.5" difference in diameter. I had hopes that the Denon cut-out wo... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? JP, Thanks very much for your informative response. If you ever do get to do some additional experiments with DD’s toting heavier-than-OEM platters, let us know. Here is a question that maybe Totem or Peter can answer, particularly Peter: Will a ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? When I owned "only" the SP10 Mk2A and the Denon DP80, both in very similar slate plinths, I gave a slight edge to the DP80 and eventually sold the Mk2A. But I agree, the Mk3 surpasses both by a considerable margin. Prior to applying the Krebs mo... |