JVC DD TT Underrated?

[niklasthedol]

This is how the over rating of japanese TT's in general started.

Some years ago:
"Hey I found a Technics SP-10 for $25 and a SL-1200 for $20.
Isn't that $5 cheaper than it should be?

By the way, the SL-1200 has been modified with another bearing, a different platter, another arm base and another arm, it's been made into suspended and belt driven and build into a proper plinth, the motor has been replaced with one of the better english ones and the feet have been modified too, all of it just like suggested by the BBC.
Will that make it worth more.?"

Maybe we will soon see people paying $2500 for those JVC with or without the same kind of modifications.



"dolph"

[thedelihaus]

There's something rotten in Denmark.

[TobascoKid]

Originally Posted by thedelihaus

There's something rotten in Denmark.

Good one!

[Laserdude]

I have the JVC QL-Y5F TT from 1980, but I´m not satisfied with it. It playes with a lot of s-sounds on the highs, and I can´t seem to find a PU that works on it, I have tried Ortofon VMS 20 E MKII, Clearaudio Aurum Wood, and nothing, still it makes s-sounds.

[Sam Cogley]

Originally Posted by thedelihaus

There's something rotten in Denmark.

[niklasthedol]

Before the Quotation underneath, Horatio said:
"Let’s do it. What will all this lead to?"
(Original: "Have after. To what issue will this come?")

And then Marcellus say:

Originally Posted by thedelihaus

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

After Marcellus said that, this is to follow:

Q from Horatio:
"[Marcellus,*] Heaven will guide its course."
(Originally: "Heaven will direct it.")

Then Marcellus say: "No, let's follow him."
(Originally: "Nay, let's follow him.")

[To whom it is directed*]

And then they decided to follow the Danish Prince.



"dolph"

[clydeselsor]

Nice turntable!

[CarlV]

I use one of these for my needledrops. Got it from a neighbors yard sale with a Luxman int + tuner also not US models.
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n76253951

Carl

[2fives]

I've got a QL-Y55F, using it as my thrash table. Meaning the table is mint I just have a AT-160ml cart on it I can afford to play my less than perfect records on. This deck deserves a way better cart, but is perfect with the auto return for recording my record. I don't need to be there when the record ends to cue the needle.

[Arkay]

Originally Posted by niklasthedol

This is how the over rating of japanese TT's in general started.

Some years ago:
"Hey I found a Technics SP-10 for $25 and a SL-1200 for $20.
Isn't that $5 cheaper than it should be?

By the way, the SL-1200 has been modified with another bearing, a different platter, another arm base and another arm, it's been made into suspended and belt driven and build into a proper plinth, the motor has been replaced with one of the better english ones and the feet have been modified too, all of it just like suggested by the BBC.
Will that make it worth more.?"

Maybe we will soon see people paying $2500 for those JVC with or without the same kind of modifications.



"dolph"

Brilliant satire!

I've recently been reading some threads on other boards where people talk just about this way, and are serious about it ...and on other boards, where they rip those attitudes to shreds. Even one board where BRITISH people, of the formerly brainwashed variety, have now taken to organizing face-off comparisons in which their Japanese DD TTs (and in one or two cases, idler-wheel drives) have been trouncing the famous suspended designs, leading them to decry the fact that they were "sold a bunch of goods" and hoodwinked for so many years. It has been very amusing to read, as an outsider!

[Sam Cogley]

Originally Posted by niklasthedol

Before the Quotation underneath, Horatio said:
"Let’s do it. What will all this lead to?"
(Original: "Have after. To what issue will this come?")

And then Marcellus say:








After Marcellus said that, this is to follow:

Q from Horatio:
"[Marcellus,*] Heaven will guide its course."
(Originally: "Heaven will direct it.")

Then Marcellus say: "No, let's follow him."
(Originally: "Nay, let's follow him.")

[To whom it is directed*]

And then they decided to follow the Danish Prince.



"dolph"

I should post a pic of the miniature wine bottle I found a few days ago that's shaped like Hamlet.

[erniejade]

Originally Posted by Laserdude

I have the JVC QL-Y5F TT from 1980, but I´m not satisfied with it. It playes with a lot of s-sounds on the highs, and I can´t seem to find a PU that works on it, I have tried Ortofon VMS 20 E MKII, Clearaudio Aurum Wood, and nothing, still it makes s-sounds.

1 make sure your records are clean
2 make sure the cart. is mounted properly.
3 some records were not made well also and have that SSSSSSSSSS SOUND no matter what you do.

4 used records if the person before you played them on a ceramic cart. that will also cause the sound.

[2DualsNotEnough]

Originally Posted by niklasthedol

This is how the over rating of japanese TT's in general started.

Some years ago:
"Hey I found a Technics SP-10 for $25 and a SL-1200 for $20.
Isn't that $5 cheaper than it should be?

By the way, the SL-1200 has been modified with another bearing, a different platter, another arm base and another arm, it's been made into suspended and belt driven and build into a proper plinth, the motor has been replaced with one of the better english ones and the feet have been modified too, all of it just like suggested by the BBC.
Will that make it worth more.?"

Maybe we will soon see people paying $2500 for those JVC with or without the same kind of modifications.



"dolph"

I would be much better off if I bought that Garrard 301/Thorens/Rega/Linn,and then bought the upgraded power supply,bought or made a completely different tonearm for it,made a new plinth from wood only found in the Black Forest,and then tear it apart if I need to change the speed.
Jimmy

[Laserdude]

Originally Posted by erniejade

1 make sure your records are clean
2 make sure the cart. is mounted properly.
3 some records were not made well also and have that SSSSSSSSSS SOUND no matter what you do.

4 used records if the person before you played them on a ceramic cart. that will also cause the sound.

Thanks, I´ll try some different stuff to make it work. I just bought a new stylus for the Z1 PU that was on the TT originaly.

[Bob_in_OKC]

Originally Posted by 2DualsNotEnough

I would be much better off if I bought that Garrard 301/Thorens/Rega/Linn,and then bought the upgraded power supply,bought or made a completely different tonearm for it,made a new plinth from wood only found in the Black Forest,and then tear it apart if I need to change the speed.
Jimmy

I believe the ball has now been hit back across the net.