zaikesman
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| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Here's something that's always made me wonder. Folks talk about quartz/PLL-controlled DD as constantly "hunting" for the correct speed, or attempting to compensate for deviations after they've happened.What I'd like to know is this: In a BD, I'd a... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? I don't think a SL-1200 has a "looser bearing structure" than a BD. I haven't used an SP-10 in over 20 years though, and never looked under the hood of one.The Mk.II pictures on this page, though clearly not the same as my SL-1200, still look to m... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Hold up, I think both both TWL and Macrojack have a couple things wrong here (not that I don't agree with most of the gist of what Tom has said -- I think I said some of the same stuff myself above :-)"...direct drive motors generally (and I use t... | |
| Cleaning old record collection.. advise please Try something cheap and easy to see what the possibilities are before investing in an expensive machine, which will vacuum records dry (good), but will scrub them wet no better (or worse) than you can do by hand.You do need to get a fine-nap velve... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets I think I have all the DC5 Epic LP's, but they're no Beatles :-) I was born in '64 and was given my first Beatles record, Rubber Soul, around the time the group broke up (not that I knew), when I was six. That record (American version) is still my... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Raul: I wouldn't know about the sound quality of relatively inexpensive DD's competing beyond their price range (though you might), I was only stating about their speed accuracy and precision. But a caveat has to be acknowledged: published speed d... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? John Renbourn -- Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englande's Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte [Reprise, '68] Reference-quality recording of fingerstyle steel-string guitar, w/hand percussion and flute. Along with Bert Jansch, one of the guys Jimmy Page g... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets RF: I was asking more about the sonic success of the CD, in your mind, than I was about the music -- of course we all know the music. Anyway, the 'White Album' was Apple on both sides of the pond (and sounds excellent in the US issue). What I'm in... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets I have only one Parlophone LP, a later pressing of the UK-only compilation "A Collection Of Beatles Oldies" (originally released for Xmas '66 and deleted not long after the group broke up). The cover art is great, but the sound doesn't strike me a... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Raul: Wouldn't the rumble specs, at least, be somewhat dependent on the plinth made for a deck-mount DD?Anyway, whatever one thinks of Michael Fremer, to me it's interesting that a guy who's critically auditioned that many turntables, and proclaim... | |
| New Beatles Box Sets Slaw3: Having grown up on the American Capitol mix of "I Feel Fine", ever since radio switched over the CD remixes I've dearly missed hearing that gloriously reverb-laden version when it comes on while I'm driving in the car. OK, so the CD remixes... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? LP'sPercy Sledge -- Any Day Now [comp. Charly, '84, rec. bet. '66-'73] "When A Man Loves A Woman"Tiny Bradshaw -- Breakin' Up The House [comp. Charly '85, rec. bet. '50-'52] "The Train Kept A-Rollin'"The Moonglows -- Their Greatest Sides [comp. Ch... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Dan, I wrote this dreadfully huge post disagreeing with your presumption that static inaccuracy in baseline speed is more of a factor than dynamic micro-speed variations. I don't want to post it the way it is, so I'm just saying so, and we'll see ... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Macrojack: Your last post, it seems to me, actually bears little relation to the question you appeared to ask at the top (reread it), or the debate you seem to have been encouraging since. I think a discussion of theoretical potential and pitfalls... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Paul: I agree that the remarkable longevity and popularity of the SL-1200 says exactly nothing about either the worth of that machine to audiophiles, or the worth of DD in general to audiophiles. Now, that fact may say more about audiophiles than ... |