Your dream turntable?

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    Or you could have your turntable and eat it too:

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    OR one could simply cut to the chase and procure an EAT turntable!

    https://www.europeanaudioteam.com/en/turntables-wp000005.html

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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,920
    If I purchased one of these six figure turntables, I’d have to eat it as I couldn’t afford food!
    Brian

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    Tasty…
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,161
    edited February 2023
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    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    Joey_V wrote: »
    I had a conversation with a local friend - dream turntable.

    Anyone here have a dream turntable?

    My dream turntable is one that stays firmly in my dreams...and out of my digital wonderland.

    In the future, when I am more dedicated to audio than I am now, and have a much bigger house, I can imagine setting up a dedicated room for my turntable rig and driven with tube electronics. Until then, sweet dreams....

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    To answer the OP's question, I can see myself upgrading to a VPI Avenger Reference turntable with VPI Fatboy tonearm. I actually like my current turntable/tonearm a lot. However, Teres, the maker of my turntable, went out of business years ago. Graham Engineering, the maker of my Phantom II tonearm, is still around, but they are a boutique manufacturer with less than efficient customer service.

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    DarqueKnight wrote: »
    Joey_V wrote: »
    I had a conversation with a local friend - dream turntable.

    Anyone here have a dream turntable?


    To answer the OP's question, I can see myself upgrading to a VPI Avenger Reference turntable with VPI Fatboy tonearm. I actually like my current turntable/tonearm a lot. However, Teres, the maker of my turntable, went out of business years ago. Graham Engineering, the maker of my Phantom II tonearm, is still around, but they are a boutique manufacturer with less than efficient customer service.

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    That table looks sooo familiar

    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    Love the SME model 60 or VPI Avenger Reference. Of course there are so many others at crazy price points but those two are on my list of something I’d love to work towards some day.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    The Avenger Ref is very nice
    That sme60 is super nice
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • newbie308
    newbie308 Posts: 769
    Are we talking about the, "Some day I will attain this dream" turntable, or the, "Not likely in my lifetime unless I really do have a wealthy price relative in Africa who will provide me with millions if I can send him $8k right now" kind of dream turntable?
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    I was talking more like maaaybe if I get lucky I would attain this table kind of dream table
    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,772
    Does it come with a T shirt?

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    This is probably going to be shelved in the i will never be able to afford it section

    The Nagra Reference Anniversary

    Wow

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    Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 1,173
    edited February 2023
    ken brydson wrote: »
    Does it come with a T shirt?

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    If they did.... genius!

    Same with the new Coke Formula years back 🤪
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  • mikejedi0619
    mikejedi0619 Posts: 110
    That NAGRA is sweet but I agree I will never own it. Oh well gotta be happy with my Technics 1200G L O L !! 1st world problems 😂
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  • plastic_avatar
    plastic_avatar Posts: 708
    I have simpler tastes and I can spend the money difference on the right cartridge ;)

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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,569
    Drive system is sick

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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 1,173
    ^ Way impressive.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    I don't spin vinyl, but if I found one off these units, I may give it a spin...

    Always have an open eye for one strictly for it's aesthetics...

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,570
    Is that a Bang & Olfson or Tandberg?
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,145
    Looks like a B&O Beogram 1202.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    edited February 2023
    Beogram 1200. The 1202 doesn't have the brushed aluminum controls.
    I would build some goodies for it.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    edited March 2023
    Don't think that Tandberg ever built, or even sold a badge-engineered, tt. They were, first and foremost a magnetics company (even after they abandoned the hifi market).

    As an aside, I am sure any of all y'all who know the 1960s-era b&o components knows that David Hafler sold some of the b&o products of the era as "Dynaco" (adjunct) products. :)

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    source: https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/building-my-first-system/

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    source: https://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/RecordersBangAndOlufsen.html

    I don't know how viable the generation of b&o cartridges shown above is at this late date? Does Soundsmith retip them? I don't think that they (or anyone else) has replacement cartridges.

    I have one of the much later, and rather cheezier (although not bad) TX-2 tangentials. Soundsmith does make replacement cartridges for those, although I bought probably one of the last MMC-4 sold by the b&o store in Boston when I got the TX-2. ;) I shoulda bought an MMC-2! :blush:

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    edited March 2023
    well -- heck! :blush:

    There were Tandberg tts. Can't even guess if Tandberg made 'em, or they used CEC or someone like that. The arm reminds me of, e.g, a Technics SL-23, but I don't think it is a Technics arm. :p


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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    Nice looking TT also.

    If cartridges are NLA, can others be retro-modded to fit/work?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    edited March 2023
    Generally, no. There were several (three, at least... I think) generations of proprietary cartridge mounts for b&o tts (arms) from the 1960s to the turn of the century. b&o designed their record players as systems, with minimalist arms designed for their MI cartridges, and vice versa. There were adaptors for some (perhaps all?) generations of b&o cartridges to use them on standard 1/2 inch mount arms/headshells, though.

    Soundsmith had/has a deep appreciation and understanding of the b&o MI ("micro moving cross", MMC) cartridges, though, and has done yeoman service in providing retipping support over the years. They also still make replacement cartridges for the last generation of b&o arms (i.e., the mount on that TX-2).

    N.B. I am not a b&o expert, so these are all semi-informed opinions; not to be taken as Gospel! :)

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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,161
    Pics of the 'micro moving cross' here: https://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=11431&sid=9e714d6c9d474562aee22f778f4d7888&start=10668
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 3,834
    Nothing tracks a warped record like a B&O turntable with a high compliance cartridge, in my semi-humble opinion.
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    Nothing tracks a warped record like a B&O turntable with a high compliance cartridge, in my semi-humble opinion.

    I would build a turntable clamp to match, but good too know.
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 3,834
    A clamp could effect the turntable's suspension tuning unless it was very light weight.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,505
    edited March 2023
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    A clamp could effect the turntable's suspension tuning unless it was very light weight.

    Like Joe's clamp on a Linn LP12.

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    Speaking of warps, I got this LP from a guy who said it wouldn't play on his table.

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