If you have access to a woodworker and machinist, it's not hard to expand a PD444 with a partial subplinth and third arm base out front. I did that with a thick wenge wood subplinth and a brass pillar that accepts standard Micro Seiki brass cantilever armboards. This frees you to add whatever arm you like. If interested, feel free to PM me for pictures. The dense wenge actually dampens the entire TT and improves the performance of all three arms.
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.
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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