faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (09/27/85)
What do you people think of their stuff? Does anyone else make equipment with the same neat remote controls? -- ....!hplabs!faunt faunt%hplabs@csnet-relay.ARPA HP is not responsible for anything I say here. In fact, what I say here may have been generated by a noisy telephone line.
emuroga@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/05/85)
They look great, sound mediocre. E. Muroga
scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (10/16/85)
> They look great, sound mediocre.
Hmm.. I'm looking for a turntable/cartridge to replace my 7 year
old cheap BIC record lathe. Both the "respectable" shops in town
want to sell me a B&O RX radial arm turntable. My (arbitrary) price
range is 0 - $250 for the turntable/cartridge combo.
Can I expect to get reasonably good sound from a $250 setup? The B&O
*seemed* good to me, but considering to the system I've been listening on,
I'm not sure I trust my judgement yet. What other turntables should I
be looking at? How do people feel about the Technics "close-and-plays"?scott@opus.UUCP (Scott Wiesner) (10/16/85)
> They look great, sound mediocre.
Hmm.. I'm looking for a turntable/cartridge to replace my 7 year
old cheap BIC record lathe. Both the "respectable" shops in town
want to sell me a B&O RX radial arm turntable. My (arbitrary) price
range is 0 - $250 for the turntable/cartridge combo.
Can I expect to get reasonably good sound from a $250 setup? The B&O
*seemed* good to me, but considering to the system I've been listening on,
I'm not sure I trust my judgement yet. What other turntables should I
be looking at? How do people feel about the Technics "close-and-plays"?
Scott Wiesner
{allegra, ucbvax, hao}!nbires!scottben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) (10/20/85)
> How do people feel about the Technics "close-and-plays"?
The Technics close and play turntable is, in my opinion, one of the
worst turntables in its price range. Forget the fact that it has a
horrendous suspension and absolutely no isolation of the dust cover and
base from the platter and arm. Most turntables in this price range
suffer these problems.
BUT... The close and plays have an incredibly short tonearm. This
leads to mistracking and *damage to your records*. Think of the
inherent stability of a see-saw. Then think of the stability of a
see-saw constructed from a two-foot long board. Get the picture? I
tried playing the Telarc Omnidisc rendition of the 1812 overture on
one of these; during the cannon shots the tonearm was so forcibly
ejected from the record that it smacked into the top cover. In
addition, imagine the wide range of vertical tracking angles presented
to the stylus when playing a severly warped record with a one inch
tonearm? Or perhaps tonestub is a more appropriate description.
If you must buy a linear tracking turntable in this price range, buy
one with a reasonably long tonearm.
Ben Broder
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