In article 49707b4a.14321859@localhost, Don Pearce (Don Pearce) wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:53:38 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:


Jim. Since the principal object of the exercise at the moment is to see
if this is all worth the effort, how about putting in any old cartridge
and adding any old weight that will achieve balance. You can then play a
few records and decide whether to go further with it.

Yes. That is what I'll do if all else duly fails. But I'm not in a hurry,
so am willing to take the time to see if we can diagnose and fix the lack
of ability to adjust first. :-)

FWIW I'm currently distracted, playing with ports of FFmpeg, lame, etc, to
experiment with sound codings. So am just giving the ancient arm/tt
part-time interest for curiosity.

If I really wanted to use an ancient tt/arm I'd probably go for the
technics SL10 with an old SME and another V15/III. I doubt the 301 will be
worth much fuss, so just investigating to learn. Might be pleasantly
surprised, but I suspect the turntable has also had a hard life...

Slainte,

Jim

--
Change 'noise' to 'jcgl' if you wish to email me.
Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scot...o/electron.htm
Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html
Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html