sleepwalker65
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| Difference in sound using different carts when digitizing vinyl record? With 44kHz sampling I doubt sound quality will be good enough to appreciate the capability of a true hifi cartridge. Your best return on investment will be from using a good, clean stylus on any reasonably capable cartridge (AT95E will do quite we... | |
| Twist the cartridge phono cable @bpoletti is that cryogenically treated liquified vacuum organic? | |
| Phono Stage Opinions @rocky1313 is the SL-1600 a mk2 or mk1? The mk2 is a very nice turntable. Either would work very nicely with a modest cartridge upgrade to an Audio Technica VM540ML, which is a mid-high compliance moving magnet design. As for the phono stage, I’d ... | |
| No one actually knows how to lculate what speaker cable they need Simple math. Take into account the power demands of the speakers to achieve the desired SPL. Then the power output of your amplifier, and subtract the two. This gives you the margin that can be lost to resistance in the speaker cable, P=I^2*R. You... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @glupson, the service manual shows an arm return mechanism like that of the “lesser” semi-auto Technics turntables of the late 70’s and ‘80’s. The mechanism is driven by a small gear on the platter spindle and engaged either mechanically by the ar... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @chakster that video cleared up some of my questions about the AT safety raiser. I would want one for certain if I owned a manual turntable. | |
| Opinions on these budget integrateds? @justvintagesfuff, with respect, Monoprice is terrible, low quality junk and would be a large step backwards for the OP. Their products don’t belong in any true hifi system. | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @chakster that AT Safety Raiser looks intriguing. It doesn’t say how it works, so I suppose you manually “set” or “load” the mechanism and when the tonearm bumps into the “antenna” it triggers the mechanism to release and lift the tonearm? That w... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @glupson, the SL-Q2 has a different mechanism than the SL-1700mk2 to raise and return the tonearm at end of play. I have the factory service manuals for both, and I’ll look it up for you. Yours might just need some cleaning and new grease on those... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @chakster the definition of “the best” is quite subjective. In my own subjective viewpoint, I prefer semi-automatic turntables that return the tonearm to its rest at the end of play. The mechanism that furnished that function on my prized (and sli... | |
| Just an observation here, but???????? In vintage turntables, I prefer spring suspension augmented by the turntable being placed on rubber isolation feet. My Technics SL-1700mk2, which benefits from a non-resonant substructure which is spring-suspended, has its feet upgraded to the rub... | |
| Just an observation here, but???????? @orpheus10 which Teac r2r machines would be capable of 2 track (half track?) operation? | |
| What is the fascination? @glupson I know what you mean about the SL-Q2. It is a great turntable, I rehabilitated one a while ago, and have another that I’m going to restore once I’ve got my second SL-1700mk2 all restored. I wish I had bought either one of those back when... | |
| Romex and breaker switches Do not listen to what Chaz said about electrical code. He clearly doesn’t know what he is talking about- for instance, stranded wire, otherwise known as THHN, is run almost exclusively in EMT metal conduit for commercial and industrial application... | |
| What is the fascination? As one who has restored a 39 year old Technics SL-1700mk2 and working on a second one for mono playback, I do it for a few reasons: 1: It’s fun for me to take something that’s got historical significance and rehabilitate it so (hopefully) I and fu... |