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| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Kind of a moot point, since the Final Audio is no longer available, the Mk3 has gotten very expensive, and the L07D is rare to find. Plus the latter two are now very old and typically have maintenance issues. Meantime, the Salvation is available a... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine Yep. I guess my posts on the vicissitudes of the TT101 belong in the "Living Dangerously" thread. | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable No opinion on Final Audio, but I cannot help but remark that I have a lot of experience with the Verdier, altho not in my home system, and I definitely would choose/have chosen the L07D over the Verdier sound, which is very open, very nice, but no... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine "Your" = "You're", of course. I hate when I do that.Henry, Can you make me one of those free-standing cradles for my TT101? Who makes your arm pods, etc? Based on your first hand inspection, do you perceive that the TT101 and the TT81 have exactly... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine TT81 for others, maybe. I've got DP80, L07D, SP10 Mk3, Lenco for "back-up".TT101 is looking good. I am leaving it power up. Your quite right that the innards are a veritable rat's nest. I have observed that it is difficult to pack all the wiring b... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable But look at that huge platter and magnets and look at the base (granito or no granito, but thanks for the reminder about granito). To me it cries out for more mass in the base; I would think you want the center of gravity to be well below the plat... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Re your criticism of the Verdier: That's what I have heard too, from users. The platter and magnets are a bit too massive for the "plinth", which is really just a flat piece of either MDF or granite. (I thought granite, but you've got one so you s... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine Richard, So many of my "conclusions" as regards what the hell is going on with the TT101 eventually prove themselves to be false or only half true, that I am loathe to make any pronouncements, but I do see with my unit that keeping it powered on a... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine Hiho,Simple answer: I have not yet listened to the TT101, ever! Mine came as part of a QL10 (TT101 + Victor laminated wood plinth + Victor 7045 tonearm). The ensemble is in "like new" condition. I expect to listen to the TT101, at first, in this c... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Interesting, what you say about the Verdier. I do know there are two completely different models, La Platine, and La Nouvelle Platine. I just read the assembly instructions for La Platine. They do apparently supply a "steel ball" which is installe... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Peter, the magnets are situated at the base of the 2 to 3-inch vertical shaft upon which the platter rides, and they are in the form of a collar around the vertical shaft that looks to be less than an inch in distance from inner to outer boundary ... | |
| Turnable database with TimeLine Well, what I have is a huge improvement compared to the way the TT101 was behaving before I sent it off to New Jersey. It does work fine about 90% of the time, and if it prematurely terminates, it seems to need only a re-start to get it up and run... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable I just went to the website where there is a crystal clear drawing showing how the maglev works. There are also photos to show step by step how to convert an older Salvation to maglev. Without question, the maglev works "only" in the vertical plane... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Harold, I don't remember for sure where we were with the Salvation; does it use magnetics in both the vertical and horizontal plane, or not? If yes, do you mean to say that the spindle or vertical shaft from the center of the platter touches nothi... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable One more OT comment: I've played around with the Verdier tt, the grand-daddy of tt's with fully magnetic vertical suspensions. The magnets used are quite huge, as anyone can see by inspection. If you push down on the platter surface, there is quit... |