Halcro, you're a gentleman. Thanks.
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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And the winner is ..... Belt drive Onedof turntable. Richard - one final correction. Halcro keeps posting the VPI Direct Drive raw graph. 10-16-15: HalcroUnfortunately the raw graph Halcro posts is in fact the Onedof turntable. Here is the link to the original graphs - VPI Direct & Onedof raw data graphs Figure 2 is the VPI Direct raw data graph. Figure 3 is the Onedof raw data graph. Interesting to note that the smoothest raw data graph by a substantial margin is the Onedof TT with stretchy rubber belt drive and high mass platter. Fremers testing and listening notes that the Onedof and Caliburn turntables have similar absolute results, but different shaped graphs They sound substantially different in character, perhaps the raw data graphs go partly to explain it. This of course is conjecture only. |
*since the availability of the Feikert Speed App I have regularly stated that the Data downloaded on its 'Chart Info' was imprecise and non-scientific as it was not possible to duplicate the results from test to test.* Why do we give credence to this in a magazine? Stereophile is Amateur Hour, unprofessional and lacking expertise. Too much trouble for them to conduct a proper test? Read the specs page on the VPI Direct and all it has is the price. |
I propose (without any data to back me up) that the tonearm has a lot of influence on the shape of the Feickert App speed deviations. I believe that unipivots are more easily excited by the 3D eccentricities of the records and thus show a more ragged perhaps more exaggerated trace. This belief is easily attributed to my dislike of most if not all unipivots but at the very least I think it safe to state that the w&f measurements are influenced by the tonearm and are therefore even less comparable from one table to the next. Non-sequitur: I was at VPI yesterday and Harry Weisfeld is experimenting with adding additional pivot points to his 3D arms. Good idea. |
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