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In Reply to: RE: Pioneer PL-70LII posted by jmlattu on September 11, 2010 at 05:17:22:
1) Yes
2) The "cue" button lowers the arm (or raises it back up if not appropriately placed). The arm lifts automatically at the end of the record.
3) Yes, the oil reservoir is under the top cap. Yes, it works. And Pioneer's repair center sells little containers of the arm damping oil (1800 yen a pop) but one could probably use any high viscosity silicon oil.
4) Nope. Very stable speed. I tend to like coreless motors better than cored or slotted motors.
5) As noted, it sounds very nice. For the price one pays, they are excellent tables. Would I take a PL-70L2 or a fully-modded KAB Technics SL-1210? I'd take the PL-70L2 any day. All things considered, the PL-70L2 doesn't match up to some of the mega tables, but at its price, it is not supposed to. The biggest issue keeping it from further greatness is probably plinth.
FWIW, the gold/champagne-y finish on the motor bezel is a paint on top of metal. It is slightly thick, and seems to 'bubble' easily. It is not a great paint and sometimes does not look great when it gets 'tired'. It can be polished a bit, but I think they don't wear well (in terms of looks).
If you want something which will look as good 30yrs from now as it did 30yrs ago (as long as it is not banged up), you might try a Sony TTS-8000. That is a wonderful motor - brushless/slotless/linear, somewhat low-torque but very speed stable.
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Follow Ups
- Talkin' business - travisty 06:43:34 09/11/10 (5)
- RE: Talkin' business - jmlattu 08:16:19 09/11/10 (4)
- The knob on the "right" (outside) is the VTF adjustment - travisty 15:08:20 09/11/10 (3)
- RE: Quite impressive system - jmlattu 10:36:13 09/12/10 (2)
- I didn't try that... - travisty 16:03:31 09/12/10 (1)
- RE: Yet another question - jmlattu 07:51:53 09/14/10 (0)
- Not that I remember. Can't remember how that would be done - travisty 08:31:02 09/14/10 (0)
- Azimuth - jmlattu 09:08:41 10/05/10 (0)
- RE: Not that I remember. Can't remember how that would be done - jmlattu 09:02:40 09/17/10 (0)
- RE: I might try that... - jmlattu 07:18:30 09/13/10 (0)
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