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| Belts vs Direct Drive and correcting experiments Someone I know has installed or intends to install a shield in his Technics SP10 MkII, for the reasons you outline. I don't know how that's worked out, but I may try it on mine, now that you mention it. The only way in which this could be a bad id... | |
| We Need an Affordable Record Flattener Grimace, Where and when did I infer that one needed a gas oven? It might be difficult to find tiles that are sufficient to cover the surface area of an LP, whereas one can get glass cut to size fairly easily in any good hardware store. I suppose b... | |
| The necessity of a plinth This has absolutely nothing to do with the differences between DD tables and idler tables, but IMO a cone-shaped footer can be an asset IF one first determines the loci of standing waves on the shelf (which would be based on the resonant frequency... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Gad, Is the Thorens TD-111 an idler? Have you restored or repaired it? If so, why not enlighten us? Perhaps you have something to teach us, other than how to make snide remarks. I can't recall your ever having made a useful contribution here, but ... | |
| We Need an Affordable Record Flattener Check the archives on the Vinyl Asylum. You can make your own record flattener with two pieces of plate glass and your home oven. Heat the oven up to about 175 degrees (or thereabouts, check the thread) and place the warped LP between the two piec... | |
| Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance? Axelwahl, How do you like the pw compared to the Jubilee? Is it worth the extra bucks? I thought Ortofon marketed the PW as kind of a super-Jubilee, so it is surprising that you are finding that the PW needs a very different load resistor. Thanks. | |
| The necessity of a plinth Here's the way I try to think of the difference between an idler and a DD as regards plinth design: In the idler, the motor and idler itself are "external" sources of noise and vibration, whereas the rotation of the platter and the bearing can be ... | |
| Not getting enough volume with my new MM cartridge Rick, It sounds like your dealer is not hip to what all the others here are telling you: if you don't have enough gain from that combo, there must be something amiss. For him to tell you to use a higher gain linestage (or whatever it was) is evide... | |
| emt 950, technics sp10 - direct drive sound Curio, Same tonearm and cartridge on the SL1210 and the EMT 948? | |
| Platter Upgrade for Garrard 301 Not sure why you would think of the "new top of the line" Thorens (whatever that table may be), over all the other myriad of possibilities, in lieu of the Garrard 301. Perhaps I and others shouldn't have distracted you from what was a good idea of... | |
| Platter Upgrade for Garrard 301 Dear Jonathan, The Lenco is a "great sounding classic" too. There are those (not me, necessarily, because I haven't done the experiment) who would argue that there is not much difference between a well tuned Garrard 301 and a Lenco L75 in stock fo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regarding the efficacy of loading MM cartridges at around 100K ohms instead of 47K, I discovered this myself many years ago by accident. (I soldered in the wrong resistor; when I then replaced the 100K one with a 47K one, the sound was definitely ... | |
| Record mats for vintage tts Ralph, That's a pretty dogmatic approach, but thanks for your post. The Herbie's is "rubber", or something that looks and feels like rubber. The BA Mat 1 is graphite, which would seem on principle to be a good idea. Both have their admirers. Lenco... | |
| Would Like To Hear From Strain Gauge Owners Hxt1, So I take it that Raul alienates you because of his preference for solid state phono stages (i.e., his own) and his dislike of the Denon DL103, plus the fact that he is a bit dogmatic at least on the former subject. Notwithstanding these fac... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables Ketchup, I would say there's nothing very great about the build quality of a Lenco L75. The drive system is completely novel and full of potential problems, but it works very very well, if you perform a few mods here and there and get rid of the s... |