Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

lewm

Totem,
Yes, I thought about it. But the evidence of any wear at all on the thrust pad is so minimal.

Nor I, as hardly any wear. Likely both relatively moderate usage.

Hi everyone,  I was going to start my own thread,  but this one is as good as any,  with the resurgence of vynl,  I have decided to jump in, I've only owned 1 turntable back in 1982, so I've went and bought 3 turntables, lol!, I've also been buying and selling audio to good effect the last two months,  I bought the 3 tables to flip to be honest here,  however,  when me and the wife found out what one of the tables was worth on ebay,  we decided to keep that one,  it's the technics sl 1600 mk2, was not working,  the wife is an audiophile,  a true diy fixer to say the least, she has indeed fixed the technics sl 1600mk2,  at the moment,  that was the automatic tone arm belt, costed  $.48 cents 😊, we have more to do I'm sure,  however,  the table is fully functional at this moment,  the other two tables are technics sl 1500 mk1, and the sl d303 table  we are going to go through and fix if anything is wrong,  I  own a $65,000.00 main system now,  but the analog turntable system we are building,  we will call it,  the vintage system,  after testing many various vintage speaker monitors and book shelf speaker's and receivers of the sort,  we hand picked out the best sounding receiver I've heard in my lifetime,  any way,  in the last 5 weeks,  this is where the vintage system is , sherwood all silicon S-8800 140 watts/fet in perfect like new condition,  the legendary Advent/3 speaker's,  Nakamichi RX- 505 cassette deck,  new phono pre-amp,  the Vincent pho 700 mm/mc with outboard power supply tube/solid state hybrid ,  Audiotechnica AT-OC9/3 micro coil cartridge, flagship moving coil cart of Audiotechnica,  I  haven't gotten to cable's yet,  but I've got my picks for brands,  I  may trick out the technics sl 1600mk2 turntable?, anyway,  this is my current building system,  I enjoy learning from all, although I've been building systems for 36 year's,  I'm only 49 years old,  lol, my mother bought my first system at 13, I've never looked back since,  I do want to learn,  maybe recap the sl 1600mk2?, are there capacitors in the signal path,  this table is full of capacitors , all opinions I welcome with,  the vintage system 🖒

Audiolabyrinth, The only question in your stream of consciousness post that I can answer is the last one; there is no "signal path" in a turntable per se.  However, the capacitors you will find inside the plinth are probably in association with the motor drive system, which I think would include a servo feedback circuit in the SL1600, about which I know very little. I am assuming it is kissing cousin to the SL1200, meaning at least that it is a direct-drive turntable, not a belt-drive.  Yes, it would be worthwhile to replace the electrolytic capacitors in this circuit.  Film capacitors in the circuit are probably still OK.  If you (or your wife) know how to solder, then just replace like for like, meaning replace the old capacitors with new ones of the same capacitance (expressed in microfarads and abbreviated "uF") and voltage rating.  You can buy the needed parts on-line from Mouser or Digikey.  Use Nichicon or ELNA Silmic brand electrolytics, or actually anything that those two companies sell.

I cannot resist asking how one goes about "hand picking" an audio component.  Listening is a better way to do it.  (Sorry, like I said, I could not resist.)  Sherwood did indeed make some fantastic receivers.

Can you say what is the composition of your $65,000 system? Why not integrate phono into that system?

Ah, quartz is inorganic. It is silicon.

Organic would be carbon containing.

Hi lewm,  thankyou for your informative post,  I enjoy learning,  we did listen to a whole lot of equipment to come to our impression's,  our goal was to go back in time to hear if anything was as good as today or better,  we got frustrated with the notion that newer was better,  we'll,  the consensuous was wrong!, I suppose that getting jensen or murdof capacitors is inadequate for none signal capacitors for the technics sl 1600mk2 turntable we hand picked out, I would enjoy all the help from you and anyone else,  as far as the main system you asked about,  it is the only modified krell 700cx out there according to krell that we spent the  $11,500.00 doing so back in December 2014, then I'm useing a digital player that we got rid of an ayon cd2s player for called,  Vincent cds7 , btw, we run directly to the Krell 700cx amplifier,  then, we have taralab's zero gold XLR interconnect between them,  speaker cable's are taralab's omega gold speaker cable's,  with special order omega 10" speaker jumper's for bi-cableing the 4 speaker post on our jbl L7 vintage speaker's,  btw, just bought the mint second pair after selling the first L7 speaker's thinking we would go up to any  $25,000.00 new or used speaker's,  that expenditure was a bummer,  so we looked long and hard and found mint condition jbl l7 speaker's,  paid  $ 400.00 shipping out of new York city to Mobile, Alabama,  useing plycon furniture and automobile transportation group carrier,  I  also use a taralab's oyaida terminationed Cobalt power cord,  with furutech gtx-rhodium NCF outlet's through out the system with dedicated lines we did our self's,  so the main answer to your question about the analog turntable,  we do not use or have a active pre-amp on main system,cheers.