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In Reply to: I checked out AF's website this past week and you are doing... posted by Curious on July 21, 2012 at 12:31:15:
That I've spent considerable money on it to keep it going and improve its weaknesses. Not counting the current worn out bearing its a much better table than the one I bought back in the early 1980s.
The stock Denon tonearm is gone and in its place is a tweaked out OEM RB-300 (Mitchell Technoweight, Incognito wiring) mounted on an acrylic armboard via a Riggle VTAF. The plinth related resonances have been tamed and the acoustic nasties via the dustcover are also history.
The mat was replaced with a Herbies Way Excellent II earlier this year. The whole thing is sitting on a Gingko Cloud II platform.
My thinking was that the drive system was something that was going to cost me a lot to replicate via a belt or idler drive, if I could replicate it at all. The stuff those type tables did better was fixable so I set off to address each issue.
I have considered creating my own plinth out of baltic birch plywood so I can mount a second tonearm. Maybe that's out there sometime after the bearing job.
Ed
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