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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.
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cleeds
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  downunder

All our tables in 20 years will be worthless as nobody will be buying any physical media or players.
Not likely. Television didn't render radio obsolete. The automobile didn't eliminate the horse industry. The ballpoint pen hasn't stopped production of fountain pens.
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best-groove
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@cleeds  I' approve this!
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chakster
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@downunder

Does it really matter. All our tables in 20 years will be worthless as nobody will be buying any physical media or players.

Oh, i’m waiting for this to buy all my favorite records from the 60s and 70s for $1-5 like it was in the 90s when majority of people believed in CD format. Only 10-15 years later the price for rare vinyl increased to the stratosphere, some of those records now cost hundreds and thousands dollars even in VG condition. Dealers, who 's bought warehouses full of records at that time, now are millionaires.  
downunder
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Not likely. Television didn't render radio obsolete. The automobile didn't  eliminate the horse industry. The ballpoint pen hasn't stopped production of fountain pens.


LOL.  what has television got to do with music?  last I looked, not many horses and carriages carting people to work and back.  Fountain pens are some stupid expensive luxury item these days.
  Not many 8 tracks, 78's, minidisc's, DAT or cassettes sold these days.
CD is obsolete as well as vinyl - at least vinyl sounds great.


Who is going to buy vinyl and turntables after you and the rest of us are 6 feet under? 
99.99% of the population will be Streaming.


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rauliruegas
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Dear @downunder : Never mind, those gentlemans always live and will live thinking nopthing change. Audio ignorance only.

Regards and enjoy the MUASIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
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