Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?
chakster As noted Panzerholz is hit and miss regarding availability, another option to Baltic birch is Bamboo ply which is dense and relatively heavy. If you have cabinet shops local, check to see if you can purchase some and or have them cut it up if they are so inclined. |
Some tips for those who should understand, even if you didn’t know. Quartz control is great but, isn’t the only technology, as it all came from good roots of this planet. There’s so much more to know. http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/technics-sl-1100-opinion.574870/page-3 The dumbing-down of this country’s too young to know audio history on this site could be very damning to us all! Don’t forget, we put a man on the moon in 1969, almost 50 years ago. Where were you at that moment in summer of July 1969? I had already built my first ’PAS-3X’ "Dynakit" pre-amp 2 years before that moment. Please don’t over-look that quartz/sand is a mineral born from the earth and when hit with a tiny voltage, it vibrates, perhaps more than your girl is using to compensate for your lack of understanding of things? P.S. Please don't get me wrong here, I still use early/vintage Technics, pre-quartz. The original SP-10 uses for all intents the same motor the SL-120Mk1 does! The whole line was servo-controlled, consequently, yes quartz controlled is better, however generally, the whole line stayed the same, except for the quart control circuitry. |
Frank, What’s your point? The weekend that men landed on the moon, in 1969, my then wife and I were on the way to Martha’s Vineyard for a vacation. We had stopped in New Haven to visit my grandmother, and my wife would not leave until she could find a copy of that Sunday’s NYT: "Men Walk On Moon", it said. I was already an audiophile at that time, albeit with very little money to spend. I already knew then that I did not care for the Dyna PAS3X preamplifier. Quartz resonates at a constant frequency. So, what is your point? Other crystalline materials could have been chosen by audio engineers, but quartz was chosen instead. By the way, quartz referencing did not come into the turntable world for a few more years after 1969. Note that in the thread you cite, the ad for Technics talks about the original SP10 and the SL1100 and 1200. The turntables in that ad did not use a quartz reference; that came along later with the SP10 Mk2, etc. So, again, WTF? |
Dear lewm, a possible point is that you, perhaps one of the wisest and more experienced on this site has responded to things that I stand on and that are actual. Most on this site seem to take too much for granted with-out knowing the history that is pointing to the now and the future. Good-gosh, if nothing else, it should be told. And ,let us all not forget that there are owners of systems in this world that aren’t even aware of sites such as this site and others that are enjoying even better equipment. These folks simply have budgets and systems that are too great and large to even talk about it on the web, they simply enjoy themselves. It seems I must ask for forgiveness for even being on the site with my antiqued system. That old system of mine just happens to be what was the TOTL 44 years ago at the height of The Golden Age" of Hi-Fi’. Is there a division of this site for ’elders’ that I could join? One mustn’t forget that anything that’s new and great today, will, with-in a short period of time will also be history/vintage. I’m happy to read of folks who embrace an old table as the OP is speaking of and can even have discussions here with-out being lambasted. Good thing is for me, the whole experience of trying to join this sited and being met with vitriol replies has inadvertently caused me to do more listening to my music/system, which is better than wasting my time on the inter-web. Everyone would agree, it’s my choice. Nonetheless, I happy to see a member speak of his equipment. At this point of over three quarters of my life interested in electronics shouldn’t be wasted on the inter-web either whatever the connection. I was there not too long after the beginning of the whole ’hi-fi’, stereo world’s on-set. This is why I posted my opinion. fm |
