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| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Come to think of it, Win, I see your point. I observed the herky jerky movement of my SP10 motor without the platter. It almost threw itself off the benchtop where it was sitting. So clearly, the mass of the platter smoothes out the operation. Fur... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction I don't know of any direct-drive tables that deliberately use this strategy, except possibly in their electronics. Can anyone think of any? | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Re isolating the motor: that is one of the major benefits of the PTP3 in a slate plinth, IMO. And that solution does not require any Rube Goldberg devices in between the motor and everything else. (Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist who made... | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Strathorncat, Your observation is in agreement with my thought that there are probably a lot of SP10s (and Denons and etc.) that "work" fine, but could be working a lot better with fresh electrolytic capacitors. | |
| Well Tempered Reference Arm Essentialaudio, I went thru that painful experience (trying to adjust offset and overhang on a WT Ref tonearm) on behalf of a dear friend of mine, whose only crime was that he wanted to install his new Dynavector 17D3 cartridge, which has a very s... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction It's not a new idea. The Garrard 301 used an "eddy current brake" in much the same way. The degree of braking was used to fine adjust speed, but it also stabilized the speed. Don't know of any other "modern" turntables that do this, though. | |
| Micro Seiki MA 505 Arm - how good is it? I own an MA505 MkIII and like it very much. These are the weaknesses in the design, as I see them: (1) Too many pressure-fit connectors between cartridge and preamp. You have the headshell to arm tube, arm tube to pivot assembly, pivot assembly to... | |
| Decca London Gold cartridge nightmare Gp49, Your post made me smile. Some 20 odd years ago, a friend of mine and I each owned the then current version of the Decca London cartridge. We also had heard "somewhere" that fiddling with those little screws could improve the sound. I did thi... | |
| Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs Syntax, From my readings and conversation with a dealer, the Allnic line is indeed produced and designed by the very same guy who was the Silvaweld designer. I think in the former case, he had a business partner who is now out of the picture. The ... | |
| Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs Swampwalker, Just wanted to be certain I understood you. Did you mean to say that Albert is auditioning the Allnic product(s)? Thanks. | |
| Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs Before Mike's post, I had never heard of the Allnic products. They look very interesting and very thoughtfully designed and executed, even tho I do not favor SUTs or transformer coupling. Has anyone heard either of the two units Mike mentioned? | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Pryso, I saw that UK site; in fact you may be the one that originally supplied me with the URL. Due to the devaluation of the pound vs the dollar, it's become a more reasonable proposition. Certainly, for anyone who is not into DIY and who has an ... | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Raul, Sorry for the tone of my post, if it was too intense. In response to your latest, I can only say that there definitely ARE reports on the internet, on various other sites, of SP10s that won't hold speed, that have lost torque, that are plain... | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Strathorncat, Sounds like you know how to read a schematic and have an SP10 service manual. You will therefore know or be able to see that the external PS is far from "state of the art", even for 1980. I think this means that Technics built it as ... | |
| Technics SP-10 TT motor capacitors? Raul, I think you have the completely wrong idea in this rare case. For me, the reason to change the electrolytic caps in ANY device that has been sitting on a shelf for 20 years is simply to avoid a failure that could damage other, much more irre... |