Whats on your turntable tonight?

T_bone, which DD table is accelerating? I looked at the lineup in your system thread and you have quite a collection.

Thanks Albert, the lineup just seems to accumulate as I find pieces to try out. Gotta start tossing some back. I have not re-plinthed anything like you have done with your Technics (though the DP80 is not an original plinth).

The P3 is the one accelerating. I pulled it off the shelf a few days ago in order to listen to it again and imagine my surprise. I tried again just now and I am scared to let it go for more than a few seconds - I don't think I have seen a consumer product that heavy spin that fast - I have new respect for the power of the motor.... :^) In any case, I'm taking it into the local Pioneer Service Center tomorrow morning.

Any thoughts? Ever heard of that happening to a DD motor?

That same thing happens to Technics DD tables when one of the antique electrolytic caps fail. The good news is new caps are inexpensive, you should probably replace all of them when you go into the unit.

I did that to my MK2 and I'm having it done to my MK3. I suspect your P3 is suffering from the same problem.

"Kalenda Maya - Songs & Dances 1200 to 1550" - Simax PS 1017 - one of those LPs that demonstrates that digital recordings on vinyl can sound great.

J.S. Bach "Fantasies" for Harpsichord, played by Alfred Gross in a superb LP from Das Ohr.
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Shadows: Foot tapper EP. One of the first records I bought. Still marvellously fresh, brings me right back to the early sixties.
And - not just tonight, but the last two weeks: the remastered 1970-75 Genesis box, expensive, but very good. To my ears, even more of a positive difference from the originals than with the remastered Doors box (partly, I guess, because the original tapes were in a better condition).