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What makes for a GOOD turntable.

Why is it my Music Hall MMF5 has a project tonearm and why is it the Project 9.1's motor isnt attached to the TT platter isnt that an accident waiting to happen? And why are there some mnay different opinions about whats right and whats wrong?

Basically high audio is a hobby where you can waste alot of hard earned money when all some people want to good solid equipment.

I am determined to find the truth what really makes a GOOD TT? I dont need the latest and greatest because one the prices are insane and your not even paying for the quality of the TT your paying the engineers salary who stayed up late thinking of the next big time under pressure from the marketing team.

So with that said what makes a GOOD TT. And please no suggestions over say $2500 cause that i just dont agree with.
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ajahu
306 posts
 
Sorry, it was a mistyping. Pioneer PL 707 is a turntable.
Here its is: http://www.thevintageknob.org/PIONEER/PL707/PL707.html
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Yes Viridian, I AM Kookooooo!!!
grimace
624 posts
 
Turntables are rounder than they were twenty years ago. I think I read that in TAS.

Seriously, get yourself a good used table and you'll have everything you need. I went with a SOTA and I love it, but there are lots of great ones out there. $1,000 can buy you a lot of used table.

As for what makes a good table, it depends on what you're looking for. Personally I wanted a table with a lot of mass for very stable imaging which I have in spades with my current rig.
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viridian
4,184 posts
 
Hey, you nutjobs are right! I had an old Pioneer F-445 digital tuner in my garage and just got it out and hooked it up. Wow, what depth, what flow, whatever other audiophile descriptors come to your drug-addled mind. I gotta go; I'm dropping off all six of my turntables and several thousand records at the Goodwill. This is just too good to be true! If I could just find an FM station that played only Pat Barber, Diana Krall, Holly Cole, and "Jazz At The Pawnshop" I would be set! Rock on.
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
Grimace,I stopped reading TAS a few years ago, but I think you've just given me a great reason for going back. Heheh.

I better hurry. I've been waiting for CDs and DVDs to get rounder also, but it looks like in a few years we won't be using them.
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