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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.
halcro
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best-groove
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ohh yes yes ..the P100 C mk4 is a great cartridge I know this very well, even your stylus or stylus and cantilever VDH, but you possessed a large cartridges park as many fans have this would be very frustrating not being able to play with everything.

For the dust cover I think there are screws in the hinges to adjust the inclination, try to see if I'm right.
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lewm
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Shane, I would take the dust cover and put it into storage.  You don't want a dust cover anywhere in or on or over your turntable when it's in use.  I thought every vinylphile agreed with that principle. Of course, you could always place it over the plinth when the Mk3 is not in use. Otherwise, those heavy lucite covers are bad karma, in my opinion.

downunder
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@lewm    LOL.   Dust cover bad karma.  I need to burn it at the stake😊
  Yea, pretty sure it will be in storage very soon.
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audiolabyrinth
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Seems like I'm collecting vintage turntable's,  I just obtained the pioneer pl-550 direct drive table,  I already have the technics sl-1600mk2, can anyone tell me much about the pioneer?, at the moment,  the technics seems to be in a whole league of it's own with performance compared to the pioneer. 
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