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In Reply to: RE: Help on TT upgrade posted by MylesJ on November 08, 2011 at 17:37:41
"I want to digitize my collection and only do it once and I think the P3 is the weak point."
Virtually any table with a platter that sits on the motor is going to be a weak point. The motor vibration gets transferred to the stylus.
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The noisiest tables I've owned were belt drive. A cheap belt drive table uses a toy DC motor that whirrs away at some high RPM. The trick (to belt drive) is spending enough to get a really good motor. A direct drive table uses a very low speed motor with coils that are gradually energized using positional feedback. Even the cheap dd tables I've had produced virtually no motor noise, and vary mostly in terms of torque and speed stability.
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NoTechnics,
I held the same opinion for a long time. I've read enough from people with high end systems using DD tables that I'm prepared to be proven wrong. Do you have a different table you would like to recommend?
A possibility within your budget if you want to keep the Rega arm is a Technics SL-1200Mk2 (preowned). Remove the arm and purchase a arm base plate for the Rega arm. If the Rega arm is unmodded it might be a close call between the Technics arm and the Rega arm IMO. After you finish transfering your LPs to digital the SL-1200Mk2 will be easy to sell and you should get back all you spent on it.
I like VPI, Nottingham and Well Tempered. Didn't reading about DD get you into your current situation? I would think the last thing you'd want to do is repeat that history.
> > Virtually any table with a platter that sits on the motor is going to be a weak point. The motor vibration gets transferred to the stylus. < <
Not "any" DD table, some of the better DD's sound quite transparent. And this isn't just a problem with DD, if the belt driven motor vibrates, unless that noise is isolated (very difficult) it will be transferred to the platter/stylus.
The fact is, early Rega's had very noisy motors, and the cheap "rubber" band isolation didn't help much to isolate it from the stylus. A shame, considering the main bearing was well designed.
TB1
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