Vinyl Asylum: Re: revox tt by human

I own, use, and love a Studer/Revox B791 linear tracking turntable. I have a Dynavector Karat17D Cartidge. This table is ultra reliable, quiet, and fantastic sounding.
A friend of mine has the exact cartidge (well I gave it to him, it's our favorite) on a Denon DP72L with an SEAC tonearm. I took my tt to his house one day. We used the MoFi "Crime of the Century" to compare.
The Revox was at least 10db quieter! I'm talking about groove noise, not hum. My friend stood transfixed with his jaw hanging for the entire 22 minutes. Then at the end of the album, it picks up the arm and goes to sleep. Gues how the side ended on the single pay manual!
This table sounds great, and you can find them for $300-$500. I paid $500 but mine came mint in the box with the service manuals and a Grace Ruby Cart (now my backup). This table also tracks warped disks almost perfectly. The thing never skips or hangs.
I have a minor degree in vinyl disk mastering (how useful..) and so I have been partial to linear tracking. I've had Rabco on Thorens (eh), a few Harmon Kardon/Rabco (rumble city), and then this.
How does it compare to a current $1500+ single play manual? at 1/3 the price if you get near equal to superior perfomance as well as automatic operation. I highly recommend these. Yes they are not fun to set up, VTA is a spacer on the cartidge mounting and a drag to change, the hardware kit includes an overhang gauge, tracking force is easy to do by ear. Once set I have not touched mine in three years except to play almost daily. There are no adjustments to the mechanism.
The biggest drawback of this type of table is the subsonic motor noise. The Studer is the best I ever heard, this kind of noise makes the HKs the pits. It is very difficult to hear, a subsonic filter on the phono preamp blocks most all of it but it is there. Also occasionally the tracks-per-inch on a particular album will be shall we say, less than optimum for the Revox and you hear slight mistracking (tiny tick) each time around. Pretty rare.
Great tweaks: The Audioquest Sorbagel turntable matt rules! Bass? You'd think, but really it is most audible improvement in the midrange, kills resonances. Also I've replaced the external cables with ultra thin solid pure silver wires Awesome. Highly recommneded.
Dusty Vawter's Monolithic PS-1 with the dual Mono Power Supply is fantastic and has just enough gain and low noise floor for my ultra-low output Dynavector. Also a rave from me. The rest of my system includes the Monolithic PA-1 passive preamp, Stealth siver cables (crosswound), Sumo Nine Power Amp (the original prototype actually), pure silver litz speaker cable (2700 conductors pre leg), and ADS L1230 professional Studio Monitors (.3% THD max, 94/db@1m)
The Studer is invisible and you get everything in those grooves.
MUSIC IS THE BEST

-human

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