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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Dover, No one can be absolutely correct, except you. I should have remembered that from past experience. Not that I would argue with your obvious point here, your condescending attitude notwithstanding. Instead of "due to the tt only", I obviously should have written "due to factors other than LP eccentricity" or words to that effect. The point was subtracting out the sinusiodal noise due to LP eccentricity. Serenity now!
Dover has comprehension problems (as well as others) with both my statements and those of Markus who designed the Feickert software.
The spikes in the generated sinewave are NOT "speed corrections generated by turntable error correction".
They are simply part of the software program to compensate for non-centricity of the test record and the effect it has on the steady-state 3150Hz test tone.
The previous software plot ( which I included) does not include these spikes.
How anyone can interpret it otherwise is beyond belief. Markus is amused....
Why don't you contact him yourself Dover to explain your interpretations...?
Halcro,
I don't know what test record you're using, but this software, app, or whatever, is giving an erroneous impression. The TT101 has W/F 0.02% WRMS, and speed deviation of zero w/up to 120g VTF.

That W/F is at the limit of conventional testing ability. With a DIN 45 465 test disc w/locked groove and centering, you can test to 0.06% unweighted wow, if you have the program.

Below is a link to Kevin (KAB) talking about positional updating tables vs. linear frequency generators. It's not what we're discussing, but might give some perspective:
http://www.kabusa.com/myth2.htm

Regards,
Fleib,

You bring up a good point. There is no piece of equipment that can measure W&F of true absolute '0'. So at some point in this discussion, it is going to have to be accepted that the TT-101 is probably at that threshold of being
non-existent in this regard of 'measurable' W&F
A good point guys...
I recall on another Forum where someone used the Feikert Speed App to measure a CD player (a theoretically perfect 3150Hz sine wave) yet it produced a frequency response chart very much the same as the TT-101 albeit with slightly smaller ripples.