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| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Brad and Henry, I have found that small size cans of mandarin orange slices in water make excellent footers for my Lenco in slate plinth. I use 3 cans, tiptoes on the bottom of each can and a spacer on the top of each can so that the turntable mak... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? PS. Yes, coreless = slotless. Just found a site that confirmed my impression. And coreless motors do not exhibit cogging. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Henry,The question you raise has also interested me from time to time. The internet is full of information on motors. However, much of it is written using jargon that is unfamiliar to me and therefore quite dense. But here goes my current und... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? A belated response to Henry's question about the complexity of the SP10 Mk3 vs the TT101: There are no on-board electronics in the Mk3 save for the on/off and speed selector switches and wiring thereto and the brake solenoid. All the electronics a... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? "Small ones" does not tell me much. Some electrolytic caps in solid state devices can have values as low as one microfarad and below. Such caps are tiny, but they are nevertheless electrolytic. If they are electrolytic it would seem to me they are... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Hiho, FWIW, that's the first thing I noticed once I got my L07D up and running, an uncanny sense of "fluidity" (good word for what I hear), plus the L07D's signal to noise ratio seems to be unusually low, which adds to that same sense. The turntab... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dean, My first Acutex came with the Saturn headshell installed. When I foolishly tried to take them apart, the exterior frame of the cartridge body stayed inside the Saturn and the bare coils came out in my hand. It was instructive to say the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, The word in the eBay ad is "PuNtina", not "putina". | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Henry, You say you ordered silver leads from 2juki. The leads were poorly soldered to their cartridge pins. So you do have a legit complaint. But how does this make them "fake"? Fake would be a fair adjective, if the leads were made of someth... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Since the LPM320STR III is one of my favorite cartridges, I hopped right over to Italian eBay and bought a 420. However, I am a little apprehensive since all they show is the box. Does anyone know whether "puntina" = cartridge? The word would seem... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Banquo, What I did point out is that the service manual of the TT101 is available on Vinyl Engine. With the service manual, a competent person can trace a problem to its source. That is the first step in the repair process. As to its possibly... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Assuming that the P-mount itself is of decent quality, e.g., the one that comes with the Azden or with the B&O cartridges, you can just solder the tonearm wires directly to the P mount pins, and then use the P mount in the conventional manner.... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I wouldn't "dabble" in vintage dd turntables if I did not sincerely believe based on listening in my own home on my system that they offer superior value for money, based on performance alone. The fact that they will not depreciate if properly mai... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Nandric, I read a little about the new data that call into question the actual speed of light. Compared to other previously existing data that confirm the Theory of Special Relativity, I think the data from CERN are rather weaker. I am going ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear �Nandric, Go ahead and buy that TT101, if you want it. Here is a URL for the owners manual AND the service manual, which can be downloaded from Vinyl Engine:http://www.vinylengine.com/library/jvc/tt-101.shtmlArmed with the service manual, any... |