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| 179.1 | | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave @RKG, 831-3117 | Tue Jun 05 1990 17:39 | 9 |
| I think the IIXE is more like your traditional suspended sub-chassis
turntable, i.e. in a wooden plinth.
Any tweak that's reversible is worth trying, in addition to those which
apply to any flavour of floating sub-chassis turntable, i.e all the tight
bits should be very tight, short of snapping off, and all the sloppy bits
very sloppy, short of actually falling apart.
Dave
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| 179.2 | | SUBURB::COLEJ | I'm leaving soon, buy me a drink | Tue Jun 05 1990 20:34 | 18 |
| I hope this helps, but I am infinatly less well informed than others.
The Systemdek IIxe, is surprisingly..... a version of the IIx, with
an electronic power supply thingy to change speeds ect. As Dave
says, the current model II is a trad suspended sub_chassis model,
with an egg shaped arm mount board (I think). Normally sold with
a Jelco souced arm (Cheepie.)
Perhaps the best bet is if someone phones Systemdek here in the
U.K and mails you with an answer... If there are no volunteers,
I will do it later this week, if I find the address....
Am I right in imagining that your Systemdek II looks like a IV in
its body shape?
Juju
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| 179.3 | It looks very strange! | MEO78B::SHERRATT | | Wed Jun 06 1990 15:05 | 40 |
| Thanks for the offer of the phone call. Much appreciated.
What's a IV? The only models I've seen are the II and the III. The
III was the one that looked like a conventional turntable, rectangular
plinth and all, except that it was covered in suede. The II was sold
without an arm for $399 in 1982, which was about 220 pounds. It was
probably a fair bit less in the UK. Reviews at the time reckoned it
was ridiculously good at the price! The shop I bought mine from was
packaging it with the Linn Basik arm.
I'll try to describe the II. The body is a cylinder, dia about 310mm,
height about 70mm. There's a separate sprung chassis inside the body
(fully adjustable for height and level) which supports a glass platter
about 10mm thick above the body. The arm board is also attached to the
chassis. The body is supported by three legs fixed to the outside of
the cylinder arranged in an equilateral triangle with one apex centre
rear. The legs are about 18mm dia, 100 mm long and have a screw
adjustment to get the tt level.
Speed changing is done by removing the platter and moving the belt
between different diameter parts of the pulley.
From the front it looks a bit like this
________________________________
|________________________________| <-- platter
----------------------------------
| | | | | |------------
| | | | | | ^
| | | | | | arm board
------|-|----------------|-|------
|_| |_| |_|
^ ^ ^
| | |
|------ legs-------|
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