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Headphoneus Supremus Member of the Trade: Sē Audio
Originally Posted by memepool
LCOFC Silver Litz is de rigueur. Incognito or Cardas make kits but I'm sure you can buy the cables cheaper on their own. You probably won't want anything too stiff as I assume it will need to feed into the sled that the arm sits on? Don't know the innards of these decks personally.
You might want to think about using a DIN socket if you find an appropriate place to fit one, instead of RCAs for the external cabling as this is what most tonearm and cable manufacturers use.Keeping the amount of sockets and joins in the cabling to a minimum is also something to think about as the signal is so weak.
Professional Microphone cable from Canare, Mogami, Van Damme or Belden is a popular option for external tonearm cable as it's very well shielded and reasonably cheap.
So you're saying use a DIN socket in the plinth, and run the tonearm cables to it, then use Professional Microphone cable with a DIN plug on one end and RCA jacks on the other to run into the phono stage?
Use a single run form the cartridge tags to the phonostage if you can (depending on the innards of the TT). You can buy shielded cardas for reasonable money.
If you want to try it out a good and cheap alternative is the wire from a microsoft mouse (ps-2 type not USB). You know the old type MS mouse from about 10yrs ago? Thats the one. OFC copper in a litz config and its small and supple enough to do the job. Disadvantage is that the colours are wrong (well some of them are). Oh yeah - the sockets from a d-sub connector of the type commonly found on computers work very nicely as cartridge tags. Not quite as heavy as the cardas ones, but very similar.
FWIW, Joe Dephillips of Discovery Cable has been quietly supplying tonearm wires to many well-known brands for years. Air Tangent, VPI, and Clearaudio arms were all using his tonearm wires at some point. Joe also re-wires arms, you should consider calling him, he's based in Florida.
So you're saying use a DIN socket in the plinth, and run the tonearm cables to it, then use Professional Microphone cable with a DIN plug on one end and RCA jacks on the other to run into the phono stage?
A single run is ideal but isn't always practical especially with an arm like yours which may well actually be connected to a circuit board underneath for the motor functions. A single plug connection is going to be ok.
Headphoneus Supremus Member of the Trade: Sē Audio
Originally Posted by memepool
A single run is ideal but isn't always practical especially with an arm like yours which may well actually be connected to a circuit board underneath for the motor functions. A single plug connection is going to be ok.
Yes, after opening the bottom I see that there is indeed a circuit board.
Click on the piece to the right to get an enlargement of the actual piece.
I'm thinking that I'll wrap the sides in 3/4" Bloodwood chamfered at the top edge. I'm also toying with the idea of inlaying two or three 1/8" bands of Quilted Maple all the way around the sides of the table. The bands would stand proud about an 1/8", and have a bullnose edge.
I'm still not sure about the feet yet, but I'm thinking that there will be three, and that they will most likely be short wooden posts with metal cones, not unlike Terry Cain's design. I also like the thick Maple platform of Terry's design, and since I have some 3" thick Maple butcher block, I'll probably incorporate it under the TT.
I don't know if someone mentioned this already but I believe Cain's plinth came about because of Jeff Day's Garrard 301 restoration project at 6moons. Just to give props where it's due:
Someone recently offered to sell me a Goldmund Studio, which is perhaps one of the best turntables ever made with linear tracking arm. It was for $1600, pretty reasonable. But I'm horrible w/ machines & tweaking is really not my thing... just wanted to get a decent table I can knock around...
__________________ Study/Main Listening Room System
Amplifier - Leben CS600 tube integrated amp
Speakers - Harbeth Super HL5 (30th Anniversary Edition w/ OFC internal wire)
Sources - La Platine Verdier Granito w/ Moerch DP6 tonearm, Consonance Orfeo CDP (as of Sep '08)
Living Room/Secondary System Amplifier - Plinius 8150 solid state integrated amp
Speakers - Bluenote Ducale monitors (temporary)
Sources - Squeezebox 3 running through Paradisea+ DAC, Sony Playstation SCPH-1001
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I got me a mitsubishi LT30 too today!
Now, I cannot find a service manual for it...
Would you, by any chance, happen to have one?
Mine has intact plinth but you cannot move tonearm with buttons.
Probably needs a belt or something.
I haven't opened it yet, was trying to find some docs on it first...
As a matter of fact, it's still in my trunk, I don't want my wife to go
WHAT? ANOTHER TURNTABLE?
I hope the result will be worth your efforts. I am a little wary about the linear tracking arm... I have a Technics SLQ L1 which I have had since the 80s which is a linear tracker as well. My main table was down for a while so I put the old table back into service. After a small bit of clean-up it worked flawlessly, however with my new amp, speakers and sub I can definitely hear things I didn't notice back in the 80s. The main problem was the linear tracking arm being moved along it's rail. Each time it moves it puts out a very low, soft thump. Much like you hear sometimes when you have a warped record. The sound was really good otherwise, but that bump every few seconds was not good. I was unable to get rid of it. I hope yours doesn't exhibit the same problem after all your hard work.
Linear Mode
