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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Mind you, the Littman was preferred by cardiologists, not audiophiles. As I recall, it was quite good for picking up murmurs. But another virtue if you are schlepping it around a hospital all day is that it is very small and light compared to some... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Based on your last post, I would not worry one bit about that hum. (Obviously your TT101 was built for 120V.) But if you like to worry, I still would not go to a lot of trouble and expense to move all the electronics out of the tt chassis, if inde... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Gary AND I should have written "EMI", not "EMF". EMF stands for ElectroMotive Force, which is another term for voltage. EMI stands for ElectroMagnetic Interference, which is undesired low frequency radiation from a transformer or motor. I picked u... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Where to begin?Dear Gary, Henry makes a VERY good point; if you have plugged your TT101 into the 120V wall outlet, that could very well be what is making your transformer hum. Even though the voltage is only slightly different from 100V, you had b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? So-o-o-o-o-ooooo, Raul, when are you going to name your latest passion?Is it the Denon DL-S1?You are of course entitled never to give up your personal search for perfection, but you must see that the past 3 or 4 years of your posts on this thread ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? A vibratory hum from the transformer is nothing to worry about, as long as it does not intrude on the listening experience. If you had an amplified hum coming thru the speakers, that is another story, but don't worry about the local mechanical hum... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Avid. That's the name I was trying to think of. Nice stuff. Light-ish platters/high torque motors. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Yes, the direct-drive school does seem to have two camps, high torque motor/light platter vs low torque motor/heavy platter. And yes I think the LO7D is more in the latter camp, certainly compared to Technics stuff. There is an analogy in belt dri... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Thanks, Downunder. I hardly think that the speed and precision of the P3 is due to its fast start. One is not listening at the start. Yet there does seem to be a consensus that a sense of "speed" or pace or whatever like that is superior for most ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Hiho, His second post was in response to something I must have written, since he is addressing me. Yet I have no recollection of ever reading this treatise before. Also, he talks about "poles" in coreless motors, so this means I am full of baloney... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Far as I know, the motor with the symmetrically arranged coils is indicative of a second generation L07D. There are photos of such a tt on the LO7D website hosted by Howard Stern, who serviced both of my L07Ds. But in real life, I have never seen ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Way cool! Did not know about the Dual. Perhaps I should have gone to R�MAF after all to hunt down each of the modern DD's that we know so little about.I take it you were dissatisfied with your Mk2 on other grounds besides "bass dynamics and tightn... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Hiho, In some magazine or on the internet, I saw a photo of the Bardo motor with its coils exposed. It is striking how much the whole construction resembles either one of the L07D motors you showed in your photos. Makes you wonder whether Brinkman... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Hiho, The information I have been able to gather suggests that it is simply more difficult to get torque out of a coreless motor than out of a similarly sized cored motor because the coreless motors tend to trap heat and thus overheat, and overhea... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry, On that last post, one would have to peer into the brain of a Victor engineer to find out why all Victor tts were not equipped with coreless motors. The motor in the TT101 is not only coreless vs the TT81, it also has considerably higher to... |