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.
128x128halcro
Dear Raul, If I did write that I prefer the DP80 over the TT101, it was a typographical error.  Because the opposite is true, although I do like and admire the DP80 very much.  (I did and do say that the DP80 is less colored than the two SP10 Mk2's that I have owned.) I think if you'll re-read my post, you'll find you misinterpreted my words; I prefer the TT101 to the DP80 by a smidgeon.  This means very little to anyone else. It's only my personal opinion.  I will say also that the TT101 plinth should be discarded in favor of a more modern and higher mass design, IMO. That makes a lot of difference to the performance in my experience.  Halcro and Thuchan (and also I) have done this.

I think you were quoting me, when you wrote, "those 21 lbs and the build materials and as you said does not impedes resonances".  But I think you got me wrong, again.  I wrote that the material composition of the Mk3 platter makes it rather more immune than most to resonating at a single frequency, because of the CLD construction.  I then went on to concede that anything will resonate if you whack it hard enough, which IMO is an irrelevant way to test platters.  But the MK3 platter would tend to resonate in a broad band of low amplitude, again because of its composite construction. The bottom line is that compared to most other platters, the Mk3 platter is more dead.  I can only hope that the SP10R platter is as dead.  It's lighter in weight, according to specs I read.  Don't get me wrong, however, I would love to own a 10R some day.

The MS platter may or may not be resonant, but those heavy platters are made of a single metal, which may make a difference.


@rauliruegas 
I see you have miss quoted me also, I did not say how in "hell"
anywhere in my post but still find your your sweeping 
assumptions of others opinions off putting.

But carry on as usual. 
Btw, who told you that the TT-101 is so " superlative " as you think because that's a total misunderstodd by your self or the one that told you?
Uhh....let's see....
Apart from me and Lewm, there's Audpulse, HiHo, Aigenga, Thuchan and someone called Harry Weisfeld who wrote in 2014
I have a Kenwood LO-7D, a JVC TT101 (best of all of them), MS DDX-1000, an SP-10 Mk-2, etc. All are wonderful.....
The TT-101 inspired Harry to design the VPI-Direct which, together with the $105,000 Techdas AF 1, are still the only A+ turntables on the Stereophile 'Recommended Components' List.
@best-groove you even do not own those Technics.
And Raul does not own a TT-101.
Nor has he even heard one.
A few years ago he bought a Victor TT-71 and because he has a 'need' to have the 'best'.....he declared the TT-71 better than the TT-81 and TT-101.
He has never even heard the Denon 100M which he continually praises based on its specifications.
Ask Thuchan how the Denon 100M (in his bedroom system) compares to the TT-101 in his main system.....😎