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| Turntable in 20 K$ price range - Design & Music Davidri, Given your criteria, and since you, like most here, appear to believe in a linear relationship between retail price and sound quality, why not just pick between your two choices based on appearance? They are both excellent, and no one is ... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonearm, I don't know whether you have already done so, but you might like to go over to Vinyl Asylum and search on the musings of Mark Kelly, a very smart fellow, on the various platter drive mechanisms and their pros and cons. Of additional i... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Thanks. Very interesting, indeed. I do recall hearing rumors about La Platine platters "falling down", due to loss of magnetic field strength, but none of my (two) friends who own the table have had that problem. There are a few other brands that ... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, Are you saying that the vertical magnetic suspension of the La Platine per se simultaneously offered a form of eddy current braking of the rotation of the platter in the horizontal plane? If so, why would that not also be a feature of t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Ian, Very nice job on your slate plinth. I see you are also using an RS-A1 tonearm. I have one, too. It's a great choice for a slate plinth, because no drilling is necessary to install one, not to mention that the sound is excellent despite or ... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Come to think of it, Win, I see your point. I observed the herky jerky movement of my SP10 motor without the platter. It almost threw itself off the benchtop where it was sitting. So clearly, the mass of the platter smoothes out the operation. Fur... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction I don't know of any direct-drive tables that deliberately use this strategy, except possibly in their electronics. Can anyone think of any? | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Re isolating the motor: that is one of the major benefits of the PTP3 in a slate plinth, IMO. And that solution does not require any Rube Goldberg devices in between the motor and everything else. (Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist who made... | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Strathorncat, Your observation is in agreement with my thought that there are probably a lot of SP10s (and Denons and etc.) that "work" fine, but could be working a lot better with fresh electrolytic capacitors. | |
| Well Tempered Reference Arm Essentialaudio, I went thru that painful experience (trying to adjust offset and overhang on a WT Ref tonearm) on behalf of a dear friend of mine, whose only crime was that he wanted to install his new Dynavector 17D3 cartridge, which has a very s... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction It's not a new idea. The Garrard 301 used an "eddy current brake" in much the same way. The degree of braking was used to fine adjust speed, but it also stabilized the speed. Don't know of any other "modern" turntables that do this, though. | |
| Micro Seiki MA 505 Arm - how good is it? I own an MA505 MkIII and like it very much. These are the weaknesses in the design, as I see them: (1) Too many pressure-fit connectors between cartridge and preamp. You have the headshell to arm tube, arm tube to pivot assembly, pivot assembly to... | |
| Decca London Gold cartridge nightmare Gp49, Your post made me smile. Some 20 odd years ago, a friend of mine and I each owned the then current version of the Decca London cartridge. We also had heard "somewhere" that fiddling with those little screws could improve the sound. I did thi... | |
| Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs Syntax, From my readings and conversation with a dealer, the Allnic line is indeed produced and designed by the very same guy who was the Silvaweld designer. I think in the former case, he had a business partner who is now out of the picture. The ... | |
| Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs Swampwalker, Just wanted to be certain I understood you. Did you mean to say that Albert is auditioning the Allnic product(s)? Thanks. |