David Bowie - Diamond Dogs, Dynaflex!
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@tgilb Nils sounded great last night! I only made it through the first disc, hopefully I'll play the second one tonight. I've been going through my collection and play grading everything that I don't already have catalogued in Discogs and am still working my way through ELO. ELP is next! It's been a lot of fun. |
@slaw the JVC QL-Y66F is an 80's vintage fully automatic direct drive turntable. It has a really nice looking rosewood base with a large 14" platter. When I got it, I couldn't turn it up very loud or it would start to hum from airborne vibrations. The plinth is hollow and not well braced. I stuffed a few pounds of plastic-clay in it and put some vibrapods beneath the cheap fiberboard on the bottom of the plinth to keep it from vibrating and now it sounds really good. It came with springy feet and I replaced those with some heavy aluminum feet and have it on a Symposium Ultra platform. I have springy floors and the feet eliminated footfall issues I was having. It comes with two arms - a straight arm and an s-shaped arm. I'm using the straight arm and haven't tried the S arm yet. The Kiseki blue seems a good match. I ran it through the Hifi New test record torture tracks and it did very well. It's not a high end table by any means, but with the minor tweaks I've made it's a really fun turntable to own and sounds great. It has some cool features like a dial to set VTF, anti-skate, and damping and buttons to move the tonearm left or right. Things come and go in my system, but I think this will stay for a while. Here's some info on the table. https://www.vinylengine.com/library/jvc/ql-y66f.shtml |
@slaw The RPM9 is a "better" table, but I never made an emotional connection with it, which probably sounds dumb, but whatever. The RPM9 is very similar to my Music Hall MMF 7.1 - same motor, same decoupled design, same tonearm. The big difference is in the design of the plinth. The 7.1 is probably my "best" turntable, either that or my Clearaudio Emotion. They're both kind of "pedestrian", but with a good cartridge, good isolation, and a good phono pre they both sound great. The Kiseki Blue mounted on the JVC and running through the Chinook is currently the best sounding setup in my collection. |