Now... and I am just
sayin' this, mind you*... I know a guy. This guy, in general, is a bit disdainful of most DD tts. But the motors in those early Sony "TTS" DD tts...
those he says... are something special. They (he says)
do not cog. More to the point... he says... you can hear the difference (in output quality) between one of those Sonys... and... umm...
most of the usual Japanese DD tt suspects (i.e., be it the lack of
cogging or unicorn dust or whatever...).
All
I can say is the one I have sounds awfully good -- and my hifi colleague (and member here, for reference sake)
@forkliftman15 (who set the one up that I have for me) opined "I guess that's what they call a black background" when we fired it up (some time ago, now).
I listened to Side Two of
Abbey Road** on it last night, and it did sound good (and it wasn't even a high-zoot pressing thereof... I just pulled out the orange "Capitol" label pressing I bought in the late 1970s 'cause it was handy and I knew it was in good condition).
As an aside, there are
a lot of copies of
Abbey Road here -- for which there is no logical explanation.
I guess this doesn't help much, does it?
Oh, well... I enjoy practicing my typing, and using
italics.
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* On the "plus" side, I heard this guy say this out loud... as opposed to reading it on the internet.
** Which, at this late date, I think just might be my single favorite pop/rock album side, full stop.
*** Oh, and
ellipses (or is that
ellipsises?)... I like to get practice using those, too...