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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Look near the AC cord outlet to find the recommended AC voltage. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Of course you can check each electrolytic for its integrity, before replacing it, and thereby save some cost and bother. But also you need not replace film capacitors. As a rule, they last virtually forever, if the unit has been stored at a reaso... | |
| EQ in Addition to an Active Crossover? What is it that you are not happy with and that you hope the equalizer might help or cure? Back in the 70s such devices were very much in vogue, but no longer. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Pablo, You wrote, "I would say it hasn’t been turned on in the last 15 years." There's one clue to a possible problem. The electrolytic capacitors do not like to get old, but more than that they do not like to sit on a shelf with no voltage acro... | |
| Beyond the sound of things, and into the soul of things. Orpheus, do I understand you correctly that you said you cannot tell the difference between CDs and LPs after you have recorded them onto tape and listen to them via your real to reel recorder? If I am correct, shouldn’t this be an indication tha... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? For those of us who are not Dual cognoscenti, what is a Dual 701? I guess we should assume it's DD. Dual pioneered the coreless motor. In fact, most coreless TT motors in use even up to today (Brinkmann) are naught but developments on the Dual ... | |
| Beyond the sound of things, and into the soul of things. But Geoff, we know that there IS something wrong with CDs, as well as with the playback machines that go with them. Haven't the issues with RBCD been hashed over ad infinitum? (If that's what you refer to when you use the term "CD".) High rez CD... | |
| FR64s Dynamic or Static Balance As Dover suggested, most internet gurus have recommended about a 50/50 distribution of the VTF between dynamic and static. However, I do find that the venier setting for VTF on my FR64S is accurate to within +/-0.1 gm, if I take great care in zer... | |
| Cogging! And a coreless motor helps most of all. | |
| Cogging! Cogging is a bad thing in any turntable motor, regardless of how it drives the platter. With belt-drive, it could be even more annoying and noticeable than with DD. But the fact is that in most any modern turntable of reputable design, motor cog... | |
| Cogging! Think of an iron core motor with only two poles as a model for the phenomenon | |
| New Technics turntables best-groove, If you can re-interpret the following sentence fragment, I might have a better idea of what you're trying to say: "...has alternating the cartridges he possesses on both and not he noticed better differences passing from the SP10 vs 1... | |
| DeoxIT on tube pins I agree that one should not use excessive amounts of any enhancer. Nor should one repeat the treatment over and over again. I have read warnings about using Walker SST on tube pins, because of the heat issue raised by Elizabeth. But is there rea... | |
| DeoxIT on tube pins What is “wrong” with using pro gold, once you have cleaned the pins with their solvent? | |
| cartridge recommendation One man's neutral is another man's "colored". However, most would agree that Benz cartridges impart a kind of coloration, in that they tend to smooth over rough spots. But some like that effect. I have no idea about any LP Gear cartridges, didn... |