Hi lewm, I suppose I should forget the Concord deal, I highly respect you and value your opinion, have you ever had experience with the technics sl-1600mk2?, if so, what was your preference for a good moving magnet cart and top needle?, I will move on to a out standing phono amp later and get a good moving coil cart, however, my buddy claims that moving magnet has better body to the sound, where the moving coil is resolution?
Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?
I have just acquired a 32 year old JVC/Victor TT-101 DD turntable after having its lesser brother, the TT-81 for the last year.
TT-101
This is one of the great DD designs made at a time when the giant Japanese electronics companies like Technics, Denon, JVC/Victor and Pioneer could pour millions of dollars into 'flagship' models to 'enhance' their lower range models which often sold in the millions.
Because of their complexity however.......if they malfunction.....parts are 'unobtanium'....and they often cannot be repaired.
TT-101
This is one of the great DD designs made at a time when the giant Japanese electronics companies like Technics, Denon, JVC/Victor and Pioneer could pour millions of dollars into 'flagship' models to 'enhance' their lower range models which often sold in the millions.
Because of their complexity however.......if they malfunction.....parts are 'unobtanium'....and they often cannot be repaired.
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@audiolabyrinth your technics 1600mk2 comes with standard tonearm, same arm supplied with SL-1200/1210mk2. Avoid the cartridges with very high compliance (over 30cu) or add kab fluid damper to the tonearm. Also avoid low compliance heavy cartridges! Look for mid compliance MM/MI near 20 - 25 cu @ 10Hz (not at 100hz, if your cartridge made in Japan then multiply 100hz compliance from the manual on 1.7 to get the compliance at 10Hz). |
Dear Audiolabyrinth, No, I have never owned a Technics SL1600 or any others in the SL1200 lineage. But I also don't try to match cartridges with turntables. What counts is the effective mass of your tonearm. Read up on tonearm effective mass and cartridge compliance, so you can understand what Chakster was trying to say, which I believe is simply that your tonearm is "medium" in effective mass, which means it would mate well with medium compliance cartridges. There is some good information on Vinyl Engine to help you to define those terms and to identify cartridges that fit the bill. But also, rules are made to be broken. |
Rwwear, The last link on your DN308 post was made into this one :-) https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6431#&gid=1&pid=12 the last picture. This one is originally from 1983and is number 472, the oldest of the 8 units I have procured, the youngest is from 1993 and is number 1608, have seen an auction in Japan for number 1628 so the supply of these is very limited. Good Listening Peter |
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