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jbeckva

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BUT... I can't help but ogle this guy here...

http://richmond.craigslist.org/ele/2698927800.html

Seems like the going price for it, and it's definitely no slouch. If I ever do get another one, linear/tangential is a requirement for me. That IGD crap drives me nuts.

Yeah, I'm not much of a TT fan.. but .. this one has my eye... hmmmm... What do you guys think?
 

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As usual, I'll be sleeping with the television on...
 

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I have never owned a linear table. What are the pluses and minuses of them. I have never even heard one. From what I was reading they can be a bear to set up. Is that true?

Larry
 

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Hi Jerry
Would recommend you do some research on Rabco before you plunk down $350. They had a brief period in the marketplace and probably are still considered the leader in linear tracking tone arms (really because no one followed up after them). They had mechanical ones (which this appears to be) that worked on the bicycle tire theory at the low end and servo controlled ones at the high end (which I recall being problematic).

Looks like an OK turntable.
 

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Gepetto said:
Hi Jerry
Would recommend you do some research on Rabco before you plunk down $350. They had a brief period in the marketplace and probably are still considered the leader in linear tracking tone arms (really because no one followed up after them). They had mechanical ones (which this appears to be) that worked on the bicycle tire theory at the low end and servo controlled ones at the high end (which I recall being problematic).

Looks like an OK turntable.

Ok Joe, have you been an audio nut all your life or what.? Or are you a repository for all that's arcane and ephemeral in turntables??
 

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Lee
Since I was very young, like 9 or so (a long time ago). I think I built my first Lafayette or Knight radio kit when I was that age, a regenerative tube based receiver for the short wave bands.

I had a long love affair with turntables and tone arms of many types along the way. At one time the high end Rabco was featured on an Empire turntable at one of the local hi fi places, it was a great looking setup. I thought it was a neat idea but unfortunately not enough of the buying public did to make it go. Then CDs came along and put a nail in the turntable coffin for a long time before their recent resurgence.
 

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I loved my Infinity "Black Widow" on my Denon DP1500 , both lost in a garage fire.
 
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