Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's?
I bought my Denon DP-60L in 1984, a direct drive, automatic turntable. It had a Grace F-9e and sounded fantactic. It still does. The only change is I have a Sound-Smith Ruby OCL replacement stylus in the Grace and higher quality ICs to the pre. It's not as good as my VPI Prime Signature with a Sound-Smith Helios, but quite listenable. Rollin |
chakster Have you seen this AT Safety Raiser ? Brand new device from Audio-Technica for lazy guys: ...Wow, everything old is new again. This looks like the exact same "Safety Raiser" that AT made back in the -70s. It is a spring-loaded device. |
Cleeds. I still have my Safety Raiser from the 70's. It never worked. The Thorens
Q-up
model was much cheaper and works great. Mine was $8.00 when I bought mine.http://www.thequp.com/ |
Interesting rwwear, I bought a Thorens Q-Up when they were introduced. I could never get mine adjusted properly for tension so it either failed to lift the arm or would roughly fling it upwards. I no longer remember which arm I was using at the time. Overall, my first stereo system included a Dual 1009, though I didn't use the stacking feature, only the auto start and stop. My second table was an AR-XA and every one I've owned over the decades since had been manual. It's no big deal when you're used to it. ;^) |
