Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously?

Lewm

As to whether anyone cares how you are making out with your intermittent TT-101, at least other owners myself included, have been following your on again off again saga.

Always nice to have options if the same issue arises.

but I just thought Halco would appreciate my keeping his thread alive.

😎👍

I, being the owner of two TT-81's, also pay close attention to anything related to our DD tables!
(grin)

We all know that the majority of 70s and 80s Japanese DD turntables came supplied with the ubiquitous thick moulded rubber platter mats.....yet a company like Victor, discovered that these mats....whilst damping the aluminium platter....suppressed the high frequency harmonics and caused a kind of bottom-end bloat to the sound.
35 years ago Victor produced a thin (0.5mm) pigskin mat with a fine cut suede finish one side and a lightly tanned finish on the other for their high-end Laboratory models like the TT-101.
I have been using this mat for the last 5 years and have tested many other leather/suede mats which have suddenly become the fashion over the last few years....yet none has quite equalled the transparency and liquid purity of the Victor...👀

Jico has just released a 2 mat set of suede leather mats....and the Victor mat has now been surpassed in my system by the thinner Jico model.
I can imagine many systems where the thicker Jico mat may sound better and at the price that Jico are selling this set for....it's simply a no-brainer for anyone not to try....😎

I'd buy a mint top of the line Sansui TT from the 70's just to look at it !Most Beautiful HiFi gear of any type I ever saw.