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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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norm
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Hi Halco,

Sorry to hear about the TT-101. Hope your Tech can return the TT-101 back to its original glory. We can only make assumptions why the TT-81 sound better than the TT-101.  Could it be possible that the TT-101 performance deteriorated overtime and went unnoticed?  Your redundancy in power surge protection should have kept the TT-101 from harm.  Is it possible the power outage was merely a coincidence the TT-101 failed? It’s difficult to imagine two models made by the same company where their “top” model is trumped by a lower model. When the TT-101 is back on-line, you will undoubtedly do another side by side comparison again.  That should settle the ambiguity
rwwear
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Perhaps there was something wrong already with the TT-101 and the power outage finished it off? This could account for the difference in sound.
rwwear
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Perhaps you would be better off with one of these halcro?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/493608538/love-the-worlds-first-intelligent-turntable
totem395
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halcro
Curious if your teck has been inside a TT-101 before?


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best-groove
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I read in the TT101 service manual that it do not need maintenance and engine lubrication but I believe little.

All turntables and those who have many many years of life need cleaning pin and lubrication with oil and perhaps thrust pad as for Technics SP 10 MK
None of you have ever done this to her TT 101?


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