A personal story of the triumph of vinyl over CD

rulerboyz

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This week I built a base for my ebner perpetuum turntable (which is essentially a dual 1228 (number edited) since Ebner Perpetuum was bought by Dual by the early 70s). This turntable came with a ho-hum plastic base. I was looking at it earlier this week and then looked around the room and saw an empty CD case made out of black particle board. One of those cases that was a couple feet high and had plastic wheel on the bottom that allowed the thing to rotate. I also had black shelf left over from the entertainment unit. I did some measurements and realized that the CD case was close to the dimensions I would need for my new turntable base. I took it apart and then started planning what I could do with it.

After several days of work it has taken shape. The bottom of the base is three layers of board and the sides are single layer except at the top where I doubled it up to make the right size for the table to sit on. I cut up my mouse pad into little strips to go between the edges of the table and the wood of the base, so it is good and level. I filled the inside with aquarium gravel. Total weight so far is over 30 pounds. I might get some sheets of nice wood (such as oak) and put it overtop the black to make it more presentable as a piece of furniture. I have placed it on two large acrylic blocks.

You will notice that I also have the funky 70s wallpaper to go with my vintage stereo equipment.
 

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Inspiring Initiative!

The painted wood and exposed screw ends really gives your new paleoplinth added badness. It's encouraged some nacent thoughts here about building a custom wood case and plinth for the 2QD. I love the sound of the 2QD and I still have some work to do in adjusting it and upgrading the stylus, but my enchantment with the piece ends where the vinyl covering begins. It's OK from across the room [see below] but up close it shouts "CHEEZE CIRCA 1977!" It might as well say, "Hi! I'm a Nauga!"

http://www.triarche.com/2qd.jpg

Reviewing the turntables on Ebay turned up a Micro Seiki [see below] that shows how handsome the 2QD could be with a real wood base. It would require complete disassembly of the unit, however, as this is a direct drive unit that is integrated into the base and plintch. I'm thinking a solid piece of oak would be very handsome.

http://i18.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/3d/0f/0e_12.JPG


Any specialists in the eastern US that do this kind of conversion?

Just a thought,

Peter


rulerboyz said:
This week I built a base for my ebner perpetuum turntable (which is essentially a dual 1229 since Ebner Perpetuum was bought by Dual by the early 70s). This turntable came with a ho-hum plastic base. I was looking at it earlier this week and then looked around the room and saw an empty CD case made out of black particle board. One of those cases that was a couple feet high and had plastic wheel on the bottom that allowed the thing to rotate. I also had black shelf left over from the entertainment unit. I did some measurements and realized that the CD case was close to the dimensions I would need for my new turntable base. I took it apart and then started planning what I could do with it.

After several days of work it has taken shape. The bottom of the base is three layers of board and the sides are single layer except at the top where I doubled it up to make the right size for the table to sit on. I cut up my mouse pad into little strips to go between the edges of the table and the wood of the base, so it is good and level. I filled the inside with aquarium gravel. Total weight so far is over 30 pounds. I might get some sheets of nice wood (such as oak) and put it overtop the black to make it more presentable as a piece of furniture. I have placed it on two large acrylic blocks.

You will notice that I also have the funky 70s wallpaper to go with my vintage stereo equipment.
 
PFC - You do have a 'real wood' TT base. Just happens to be MDF covered with vinyl. You could veneer what you've got and have something very nice looking. And considerably easier than a new base from scratch and from solid wood. My guess is that MS is also a veneer. Think you would be surprised at just how simple these systems are (not like the PS-8750 or PX-2, which are very complex). My guess is that you could take it apart and put back together with minimal effort. Take pic's and notes along the way and then simply reverse your steps. AK member merrylander does nice veneer here in the east.
 
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You have stated that this P.E. unit is essentially a 'rebadged Dual 1229'. I beg to differ. A ten inch Dual 1229? Don't think so. More like a re-badged 1218/1228. Glad that it worked out for you, but the Dual 1229 has a full-size platter, all-metal arm [including the front-most part], and an overlapping-pole motor. Hence my curiosity.
Can you please post some snap shots of the underside of the turntable?

Thank You,

Seth
Forever Analog
 
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My apologies for the photo quality. My lighting and camera are not ideal.
On the bottom of the table the stickers read:

Dual Motor SM400

Dual KS 4

PE 3048 Made in Germany

You are right, I am probably wrong in my numbering (it is only 10 inch platter as you said). Someone said it to me on here a while back so I'm just running with what I remembered, and my numbers were off.
 

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Sure looks like a cosmetically-altered Dual 1228 w/o the strobe. The motor is an open-frame four-pole. Pretty nice, regardless.

Seth
Forever Analog
 
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