-=[ Quoting George Wells to Bonnie Goodwin ]=-
 GW> I can't believe you're still here.  It has been years since I last
 GW> visited the Audio echo.  Traffic is much lower than it was five or six
 GW> years ago.  But, it seems that all of Fidonet is that way these days.
 GW> How long have you been getting on this echo?  It has been more than ten
 GW> years since I first got on and I seem to recall that you were actively
 GW> involved at that time.
 GW> Anyway, down to business:
 GW> Do you have any suggestions for a source for turntables?  Maybe a good
 GW> used table?  Some of us still have many hundreds of LPs.  My Thorens
 GW> table has a built in tonearm and it has a broken wire in the arm.
 GW> There doesn't seem to be any way to gain access to the wiring in the
 GW> arm so I'm not able to fix it.  It is otherwise a decent belt drive
 GW> turntable.  Everything available new seems to either be elcheapo $99
 GW> tables with arms that only accept p-mount cartridges or megabuck tables
 GW> that cost more than my house.  I have two Sure V15 type 5 standard
 GW> mount cartridges that I want to continue to use.  Any ideas will be
 GW> greatly appreciated!   See ya!   george.wells@toltbbs.com
How about checking out dealers who sell DJ equipment?  While they aren't
true "audiopile" equipment, the tables these dealers sell are much higher
quality than the entry-level junk that's available on the consumer market.
It's lamentable that these cheap tables are the only things available in
consumer audio stores.
Actually, my table is Technics entry-level junk one.  I do sometimes wish I'd
gotten something better, but this thing does fit into my cabinet.  It's a
DC servo motor driven belt drive, P-Mount.
If you do find something that uses regular cartridges and can't find a 
standard
mount in the future, some P-mounts are universal mounting, which means they
can be plugged into a P-mount arm or mounted in the standard style.
                                Phil
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