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
Raul, good to hear from you, thanks for echoing my sentiments & sharing your knowledge.
Totem,
AFAIK....Victor made black and brown pigskin mats.
Mine is jet black...🤓

Raul
Welcome back, we missed you!

Beyond core functional test numbers,  I do not put a lot of stock into equipment specifications. I prefer to use my ears. As above... We do not listen to specifications.
If we did, tube equipment for example, with its typically inferior measured performance, would be off our Christmas shopping list.
My view is that we can hear way deeper into the output of a product than measurements can articulate.

If you are interested in more detail on my upgrade, please feel free to PM me.

cheers 

Richardkrebs,

Why don't you just make stuff up like most manufacturers?  People don't know what it means anyway. Imagine a turntable going from 70dB S/N to 90dB !!  You could pretend to rewrite the laws of physics with some doubletalk about external acoustic compensation curves or some such nonsense.

Wow and flutter - not a problem. Just buy a few crappy off-center test records (aren't they all?) and you could have before and after "proof" of upgrade effectiveness.  Enlarge the hole in one of the records and carefully center it for your after sample. 

Regards,

Dover,

You're way out of line posting your belt drive BS on this thread.  It doesn't matter how good it supposedly is, it's inappropriate.

Like your bit about absolute speed and the rotation of the earth, it doesn't make sense.Â