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| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable You can buy a slab of two-inch thick PA slate from any of several sources and have it shipped to you anywhere in the US for a total cost of less than $500, maybe much less than $500 if you don't have to pay shipping. After that you need to find so... | |
| Two Arm Turntables Around $2100 for a Giant direct-coupled Lenco plinth, if you do nothing yourself but pay for it. Check out Jean Nantais via the Lenco thread (Home Despot). For a little more effort and similar expense you could have a Lenco remounted in a steel to... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Kcc123, It's quite possible that the sorbothane liner will work out well, but I have never been fond of sorbothane "feet". One thing to consider is the factors that govern energy transfer between dissimilar materials. At the interface energy will ... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector OK. The un-examined phono stage is not worth listening to. This is just a hobby; these devices are just interesting toys that have the added benefit of producing great music. | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector Thoreau quoted Socrates in "On Walden Pond". My bad, | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Does this forum have a search engine? If so, try searching on the word "plinth". If not, go to Vinyl Asylum and do a similar search. Also, scroll down the list of threads on this Analog section and look for threads about Garrard, Lenco, Technics S... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector That was Henry David Thoreau, unless he was quoting Socrates. Perhaps this is a "fact". | |
| How will XLR cables vs RCA effect a phono pre There still seems to be some confusion, despite Ralph's clarification. If your phono stage has truly balanced circuitry inside, from input to output, then you would be remiss if you did not use an XLR connector where pins 2 and 3 carry the signal ... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable That looks like a nice design that would really get a firm grip on the JVC. The pros and cons of a plinth for a DD table have been much discussed elsewhere. There is no question in my mind that a massive and properly constructed plinth does wonder... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Kcc123, That is very cool. Shades of the Micro Seiki DDX1000. I would call that an UN-plinth, not to say that it would not sound great. However, there's no way I could make something like that. Did you do it yourself? Can you show side or bottom v... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector You guys make me think I'm going deaf. I hear no significant roll-off of the treble (compared for example to my CD player) with my Koetsu Urushi. I live in the Washington, DC, area. If anyone wants to come hear my "rolled off" system, please conta... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Tbone et al, In the DP80, when you use the adjustable speed control you are bypassing the quartz crystal oscillator. That's the only way you can get the electronics to agree to change the platter speed, I guess. If the electronics are all copaceti... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector Halcro, I don't mean to take issue with your opinion of the Koetsu Urushi, but my experience is quite different. In my system I am getting great bass and fantastic treble from the Urushi. And of course the midrange is to die for. Whether or not it... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Stringreen, The magnetic strip issue has been done to death. If the table holds speed, you don't have a problem. If it does not hold speed, you MAY have a problem with the magnetic strip, but there are many other possible and cureable causes of sp... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable I've got the same brochure that Tbone is talking about, from the Vinyl Engine. The one for the DP80 does quote a 77db S/N ratio, as he says. Both 77db and 80db are well below the S/N ratio of any LP playback system, so noise per se is not going to... |