Dear Audiolabyrinth, No, I have never owned a Technics SL1600 or any others in the SL1200 lineage. But I also don't try to match cartridges with turntables. What counts is the effective mass of your tonearm. Read up on tonearm effective mass and cartridge compliance, so you can understand what Chakster was trying to say, which I believe is simply that your tonearm is "medium" in effective mass, which means it would mate well with medium compliance cartridges. There is some good information on Vinyl Engine to help you to define those terms and to identify cartridges that fit the bill. But also, rules are made to be broken.
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.
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.
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Rwwear, The last link on your DN308 post was made into this one :-) https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6431#&gid=1&pid=12 the last picture. This one is originally from 1983and is number 472, the oldest of the 8 units I have procured, the youngest is from 1993 and is number 1608, have seen an auction in Japan for number 1628 so the supply of these is very limited. Good Listening Peter |
RWwear, So far I have procured 8 of them and I'm constantly looking for more - just picked up another one last week - so if you want to get on the list let me know. I know of two more located in Japan this person had 3 from which I bought one so far - the possibility of getting these two exist. Good Listening Peter Added a new photo of the next one Im working on https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6431 |
Peter, You seem to have taken a very different tack with the DN308 as compared to the DP80, in terms of the design philosophy behind the two very different plinths. The DN308 plinth seems to have a hollow interior, whereas the DP80 plinth (from photos I have seen elsewhere on your site) seems to have been built from layers of precisely machined wood such that the only available empty space is tightly fitted to the electronics and the mechanicals of the DP80. I actually prefer this latter approach. Can you comment? Thanks. |
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