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From: wmb@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Mark Boggs)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Turntable Clamp & Turntable Controversy
Message-ID: <353@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 04:10:22 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 04:10:22 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 02:10:06 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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One solution to a manual turntable letting the stylus try to play your clamp
is to spend $17 on a nifty gadget from Thorens that picks up the arm around 
the time you get to the label.  All is does is catch the tonearm when it gets
to the end of the music, release a catch and lift the whole shebang of the
record.

Regarding the Direct vs. Belt drive controversy.  The Nakamichi Dragon-CT for
a lowly $1795 is one fine direct drive turntable.  I don't think there is
another table around that is signifigantly superior to it.  It has no
problems tracking the cannon shots on the Telarc test record (Something the
Sota Sapphire with an Emminent Technologies arm failed at).  It also boasts
signal-to-noise of 78dB, unmeasurable speed drift and deviation, and 
wow-and-flutter < .01%  I'd be interested to hear of belt drive models that
match those stats and center the record for you too.

Nakamichi also uses dual DACs to eliminate phase shift in their CD players.
So Sony is not alone in this.
					-Mark