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RE: diy turntable AND (for all you experts) an obviously dumb question

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In Reply to: RE: diy turntable AND (for all you experts) an obviously dumb question posted by nickb on May 12, 2008 at 21:18:09

I've thought about modifying an existing table - my parents have an old pioneer table from the early 70's. Or would it work to take the motor assembly from an old table like this and build a new table around it? Or does a large part of the fidelity come from a great motor that runs smoothly, quietly, and exactly at 33 1/3? Of course I'm aiming for as high quality as I can get, but I wouldn't be opposed to building something mid-fi, to learn how it all works, and then going from there. Part of what is appealing about building a new table as opposed to hijacking an old one is the ability to experiment on aesthetics as well. Just wondering what resources were out there, because I'm not sure how the motor thing fits into it - controlling speed, belt size, platter size, getting the right rpms,.. Thanks again for the tolerance.

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