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After a couple of years of trying to find the space to put this (it took a move), a couple of evenings of back-breaking work (the darned thing is actually really heavy), and a couple of evenings of figuring out how to calculate null points, use a protractor, move the cart in the headshell, play with VTA, etc....I got tunez! I am so so waiting for the weekend to spin more rekkids!
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as are the feet, which are adjustable, and pillarsBelieve it or not, these are quite susceptible to vibration and MICRO made an isolation base available as an Option fairly late in the SX-8000's production and all the way through the production of -8000II, Big Brother
*These Air-bearing models sound better with a decent isolation base*
Last one the the MKII's would have been made around January 2001
If MICRO had ever had a decent distribution network and/or website they might still be with us today
The dropping of tariff barriers into Japan, making for easy access to affordable Nottinghams, Linns, etc. is what killed MICRO; they were too reliant on the Japanese domestic market
Grins
I was going to ping you to see if your offer from a couple of years ago to help set this up was still on but I got impatient and decided I needed to figure it out for myself as well... :^)That said, I am almost sure that I did not get it done perfectly first time around, so help is welcome!
The isolation table which came with the table is underneath it but the air bladders seem to lose air quite quickly. I am going to have to get it repaired. I have only seen one or two MICRO isolation bases go by in the past few years and they ended up going for a bundle. Other ones for industrial applications are available from time to time on YahooAuc and are a lot cheaper. I guess I could try one of those.
Separate questions:
Did you ever try drilling different boards for one of the designs with outboard armmounts (1500/5000/8000 and so on)? Do you have any idea what it would cost to have a local machinist do a set out of aluminum or stainless steel? If yes, do you know any machinists in Tokyo?Also, have you ever tried a linear-tracking arm on one of these tables?
as the originals are no longer available, he's made me some metal platter mats and he is a *very* good machinistAnd sometimes the MICRO arm bases come up for sale 2nd hand too
You'd have to let me know what type of arm ( I've seen these with 3 arms on them! ) to match an armbase toHave you seen emachineshop.com? You can design your own metal or plastic parts and order these online
By all means follow up at:
gware@eudoramail.comThe last one of these I saw sell here went for over US$10,000....
Linear tracker, don't see any reason why one wouldn't work
Enjoy!
Grins
How do you like it. Have you used anything else as far as arms go. I would like to hear a SAEC or the Micro Seiki 282 arm.
To answer your first question, I like it quite a lot. Up to now I have been using a Yamaha PX-1 (big old direct drive linear-tracking table from around 1980), which is quite nice, but comparatively speaking, doesn't quite match up. Probably more difference in the table/platter/motor than arm functionality but it's noticeable. Gonna try a nicer cart this weekend to see how much that changes.Second: But I have listened only for about a dozen sides so far and have not used another arm on the table yet. I have a Micro MA-505X, a Micro Max237, and a Triplanar MkVII waiting in the wings but am working on arm mounts for them. I would very much like to get a Micro 282 arm but they seem to be rarer than hens' teeth in my neck of the woods.
But then, if you're not playing U.S. made LPs, why do you need one?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
and it's a Japanese pressing which actually dates the table I think...:^)
I am actually listening now with a 'disc stabilizer' now. There's a difference vs. without, but not nearly as much as the difference between this table/arm and the one I was using until today.
Goldmund, Townshend...of course, I didn't take too much notice of 'tables like that as I couldn't even buy a picture of one back then. Let's see, 1982...making 3 bills a week running a swimming pool company's warehouse...Yikes, I didn't want to remember that!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
but they died a lonely corporate death a few years ago...This table went on sale in Japan in 1981, and was replaced in 1984 by it's bigger and slightly heavier brother (which in addition to the air bearing of the original, added vacuum suction for the disc, and if you went whole hog, a matching isolation base).
I'm actually half-surprised the air pump for the bearing and the motor still work.
Granted the whole thing is blue.... guess you can't win'em all.
but geez this is fun... it's 3am and i gotta get up in 2 and a half hours, but the tunes, they just keep on spinning so what can ya do?
Maybe because I was always the "bigger and heavier" person anywhere I went.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Whoa, that is frickin' cool. Thanks for the photo.
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