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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Nice use of emoticons, Halcro. One emoticon is worth a thousand tears.My TT101 is working, if I leave it powered up at all times, and if I don't move it, and if I run it at least once a week. With those stipulations, it's "reliable". I have heard ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? As Halcro and I know, there is NOTHING in turntable land quite as complex as a Victor TT101. I haven't seen a P3, but the Denon DP80, Kenwood L07D, Technics SP10 Mk2 and Mk3 are as simple as a belt-drive, by comparison to the TT101. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? This guy Chris must be a gem, for sure. And by all means, Downunder, DO replace all the electrolytics in your P3. Like Albert says, you may save yourself a much thornier dilemma at some point in the future, if leaky caps eventually kill off an uno... | |
| VPI SDS exact speed in .... 40 minutes? Why hasn't anyone suggested belt slippage as the cause of this problem (and it IS a problem, not "normal")? I could envision that a high mass platter might slip the belt for several minutes at start-up, if the motor is relatively weak and the belt... | |
| old verses new ??? There is no "correct" answer to your question, the way you posed it, except to say, as Czarivey already did, that vintage tt's are generally less expensive than new ones, and MUCH less expensive than the most expensive class of current production ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? "Diamond encrusted titanium cantilever."Sounds like something you'd give your girlfriend or a prize awarded on a daytime TV quiz show.Fleib, You really seem to have a good grasp on these concepts. I typically do understand what you're talking abou... | |
| TECHNICS SL1200 MKII.......THE REAL FACTS Techie, You are only allowed two exclamation points per post, plus one inappropriate question mark. Sorry. | |
| Unbalanced to balanced VPI junction box change? To get back to the original question, if the OP's existing single-ended Valhalla cable has only one conductor to carry signal plus a different kind or character of conductor to carry the ground side of an SE hook-up, then indeed he may want to cha... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? I am surprised to read Don's and Doug's statements regarding anti-skate. If the reader is a neophyte, please take those statements with a smidgeon of skepticism. For any pivoted tonearm with stylus overhanging the spindle, there IS a skating force... | |
| Rekokut Rondine 3 vs. Merill AR es1 replica Boofer, Do you already own the two turntables and are you trying to choose which one to sell, or are you making a de novo buying decision? I just wondered where the reference to the SL1200 comes from; it seemed to come out of the clear blue sky, s... | |
| BEST CART FOR SMEV12 ARM at TW BLACK NIGHT TT If only Burmeister made a cartridge. | |
| Dumb VTA Question Ditto what Doug said. Life is short. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, Do you know how they loaded the cartridges in that German survey? I cannot read the German. Between you and Dover, an interesting point is raised. The Koetsu cartridges are often damned for having rolled off hf response. Perhaps their sin i... | |
| Phono rig capacitance Dear Dfel,Go here: http://www.jensen-transformers.com/That's the home page. On the left hand margin you will see a vertical listing of links. Click on any or all of the links listed under "Applications". Plus, the principles of Jensen are some ver... | |
| Opinions on bang for the buck on TT & tonearm Dear Hiho, Upon further thought, I would wish to modify my definition of audiophilia, in the interests of both fact and humor. But the OP has more responses here than he really needs.Dfel, With $6000 to spend, one can purchase a very highly "tweak... |