So I took the idler out from that poor thing and popped it into the Zero, gave it a light sanding and isopropanol cleanup. Doing that is like dousing everything you eat with onion powder, good for a few things, but certainly not for everything. Well, got this clunker wreckage of an Garrard SP25 MK4 a while ago understanding that some parts will fit the Zero 100. What I don't want to do is pollute all playback with similar alteration to everything. I want a consistent front end signal closer to the original that the mastering engineer had intended for me to hear on well mastered recordings, and I want the ability to correct or mask problems in other less well mastered recordings of worthwhile material and save that for future playback.
I would rather tweak the loudspeakers, the DSP, and the room acoustics. With vinyl there is too much that has nothing to do with listening to music, such as all of the fondling of the physical medium and packaging materials, and the ongoing tweaking of physical components that audibly affect response of the playback front end such that no two vinyl playback systems sound the same. With digital it is all about listening to the music with easy access to a widely varied collection with compact storage. Yeah, show me the LP with hi-def video and discreet surround sound. In one of my lives I was a recording engineer, minimal miking, acoustic music including large-scale orchestral music, no dynamic limiting on my side. Don't tell me I can't hear that because I always do. Like the way the potential energy of the beginning of an LP groove is always greater than the potential energy of the end of that groove. LPs obey the same fundamental principles. I'm sure if one is obsessed enough LP wear can be mitigated, but there's no getting around the basic laws of physics. I'm guessing Mikey didn't own those records, they usually had audible wear. I've owned over 10,000 LPs, buying more than half as used LPs. I wound up including my first one in a lot of five turntables that I traded for one. I think most vintage turntable buyers these days are novices and probably warded off by the negative opinions posted about Zero 100s.
Duals outnumber them by a significant margin.
Almost everything on LP since 1994 is digitally sourced. There arent too many Zero 100s out there. Yes, "digital" LPs first appeared around 1972, there was a bucket-brigade delay preview circuit commonly used for LP mastering in the 70's. Excludes: Alaska/Hawaii, US Protectorates, APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Nepal, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Micronesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Palau, American Samoa, Niue, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Guam, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Ghana, Djibouti, Cape Verde Islands, Mali, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Gambia, Liberia, Rwanda, Libya, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Lesotho, Mayotte, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Chad, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Senegal, Togo, Morocco, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Western Sahara, Malawi, Comoros, Angola, Algeria, Benin, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Somalia, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Anguilla, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Haiti, Panama, Virgin Islands (U.S.I suppose my remarks make more sense in the context of the recent uptick in LP sales.