Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!dual!amd!pesnta!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfclp!fritz From: fritz@hpfclp.UUCP (fritz) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Turntable recommendation Message-ID: <3900009@hpfclp.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 21:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfclp.3900009 Posted: Sun Nov 18 21:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:01:10 EST References: <542@amdahl.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:amdahl:-54200:hpfclp:3900009:000:1058 Nf-From: hpfclp!fritz Nov 27 18:35:00 1984 > /***** hpfclp:net.audio / amdahl!wcg00 / 12:43 am Nov 20, 1984*/ > Anyone have a recommendation for a linear-tracking turntable? I've > looked at the B&O, Revox, Sony, etc., and I need some advice from > someone that actually HAS one of these. I'd be interested in what semi-serious audiophiles (as opposed to rabid golden-ears, sorry!) have to say about these. I like their convenience, and they are about the only "decent" [semi-]automatic tables on the market. The idea is good (that's the way the cutter made the grooves, blah, blah, blah), but I wonder greatly about the actual implementation. I mean, it seems like those little motors whirring on & off to move the arm have got to affect the sound, as would the fairly radical changes in stylus/groove angle as the arm fell behind and was moved ahead. As reference, I have compared a Linn Sondek with a Denon 300 (?) semi-auto, and felt what little difference I could hear was nowhere near worth the difference in cost. Gary Fritz Hewlett Packard Co Ft Collins, CO {ihnp4,hplabs}!hpfcla!fritz