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Beautiful machines! I have a TD 125 Mk. II as well. It's got the modern controller circuit from the same British gentleman (with 78 instead of 16 2/3 RPM) as @L0rdGwyn has on his, a cleaned and strengthened original teak veneered plinth (I do not use the bottom plate), new springs, and a Bokrand...

Ha! That Karajan! I'll stick to my 1970 Beethoven 200 years anniversary box set. I have bought many but not all of the DG The original Source series LPs. The Kubelik Ma Vlast is exceptional. I skipped the Bruckner box but bought a 24/96 download of symphony 4-9. In the IMO boring video...

I just love the silver Yamaha design and just booted out an old black Rotel CD-player for a CD-S300 for that single reason. Optical out only of course. This member of the Yamaha Fan Club says thanks for the review. I like others would have liked to see measurements of DAC and Phono performance...

I guess nobody understood that! WXC-50 in preamp mode (switch on back), and Direct mode (internal DSP deactivated, except resampler of course). If Yamaha ever does a WXC-50 Mk. II I’d like one more digital input, LMS player capability, and the same looks as their hifi separates. :)

Old thread. This connector type was actually invented by Ortofon. SME adopted it and so did many Japanese manufacturers. I do not know when two guiding slots became common. Ortofon had one on the top for long (52mm) carts and one on the bottom for short (36 mm) carts so that overhang should not...

Here's how I use my WXC-50 as a control center:

P1: No I’m not and indeed I am. P2: Almost. Such bus compression is certainly a digital aera thing. Everything louder than everything else.

Is that an ash tray? —- I forgot to mention: Sometimes vinyl is measurably better than CD or downloads/streaming: Digital has done as much harm to non classical music as it has done good to classical.

It can at least sound very good! Excellent is too big a word for me. I’ll go with Pretty Damn Great.

To try to give a snippet of an answer to the OP: My oldest son is 21 and of course of the streaming generation, but he has also studied music for three years, his graduation main instrument classical song. He started buying LPs a couple of years ago. It seems to me that if there is a particular...

I don't care.

I've started buying some of these new Deutsche Grammophon The Original Source LP releases. Basically 4 track master tapes downmixed to 2 track and cut in real time all analog. Intriguing.

That is a wonderful pic of Yehudi! Great looking TD 150 Mk. I as well. My oldest son has a very nice Mk. II with the TP 13a arm stowed in the basement here. It has a Tandberg logo on the plinth, not uncommon in Norway. Disabling that auto standby was the first thing I did. I’m one of those...

I had this Sota Sapphire for many years, with upgrades it became a Mk. II/IV/V mix. The arm was the ingeniously weird Well Tempered, which I found that had it limits. The very nice Audio-Technica AT33PTG/II was not something it could control. Now I have a 50 years old Thorens TD 125 Mk. II...