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.
128x128halcro
Based on your last post, I would not worry one bit about that hum. (Obviously your TT101 was built for 120V.) But if you like to worry, I still would not go to a lot of trouble and expense to move all the electronics out of the tt chassis, if indeed it could be done with the TT101, which as H pointed out is quite complex, and quite a bit more complex than an SL1200.

Do you like the EPA100 significantly more than the UA7045? I always thought those Victor tonearms might be sleepers and have been tempted at times to buy the 12-inch version.

The TI Shield is not going to kill the hum, because the hum is of mechanical not electrical origin, but you might find it benefits the sound and is definitely worth the effort. I ordered a 12 X 12" sheet and cut it in the shape of an LP, so it fits under my tt mat and does not show. For best results, it should be grounded to the tt chassis. If your platter is made of anything conductive, e.g., alu, that should take care of itself. Let me or let us know if the TI Shield cleans up the sound in surprising ways.
Mind you, the Littman was preferred by cardiologists, not audiophiles. As I recall, it was quite good for picking up murmurs. But another virtue if you are schlepping it around a hospital all day is that it is very small and light compared to some others that have complex and heavy bells. (The bell is the business end of the scope.)
Lewm, I am mostly playing my high compliance mm carts at this time and the UA7045 is not compatible. I think the 7045 is excellent and would recommend it and by extension the 12" 7082. Also Jim Howard did an excellent job on the EPA100 so it really sings, so I really enjoy it.

I am interested why you think the vibrating transformer is not effecting the oh so sensitive stylus? It seems to me that I need to quiet it anyway I can.
Gary
A soldier has his uniform, an officer my have a sward, the English lawyers have a wig and a doctor has the stethoscope. This is called 'non verbal communication' but
somehow it seems to work. Such that Ataturk wanted to raise his country into the Western civilisation by ordering that every Turk was obligatory to wear a hat. According to
the same logic the only thing one need to do is buy a stethoscope.Ie a hat will not do anymore.

Regards ,