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Headphoneus Supremus
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Thats exactly what I'm trying to get accross. If you think of all the elements separately which is how the high end stuff was sold until the late 70's you can cherry pick and mix and match the best components from any era and in so doing save yourself money.
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Agreed. Tonearms have improved as have cartridges because these are pretty easy things to make and don't require large scale manufacturing.
Motorboards do. One of the main reasons belt drives have taken over is that they can be made by small companies without large industrial plant. Check out some of the stunning turntables which came out of Japan in the 1980's and you'll see what I mean. Nobody makes turntables like the Marantz TT100, Kenwood LD07, Sony Biotracer, Nakamichi Dragon or Luxman PD555 anymore or the Garrard 301 or Thorens TD124 for that matter...
Originally Posted by Jeff Wong I think of turntables as having made great advances in the last 20 years, but, I'm thinking of "turntable" as the umbrella description of the entire rig including the other parts necessary for a working front end. |
Thats exactly what I'm trying to get accross. If you think of all the elements separately which is how the high end stuff was sold until the late 70's you can cherry pick and mix and match the best components from any era and in so doing save yourself money.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Wong From a more technical and correct standpoint regarding just the base and platter (where you're coming from, and I suppose rightly so) there probably have been fewer advances in that time, although platters and plinths have made some progress; tonearms and cartridges have definitely made greater strides in improvement. |
Agreed. Tonearms have improved as have cartridges because these are pretty easy things to make and don't require large scale manufacturing.
Motorboards do. One of the main reasons belt drives have taken over is that they can be made by small companies without large industrial plant. Check out some of the stunning turntables which came out of Japan in the 1980's and you'll see what I mean. Nobody makes turntables like the Marantz TT100, Kenwood LD07, Sony Biotracer, Nakamichi Dragon or Luxman PD555 anymore or the Garrard 301 or Thorens TD124 for that matter...