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Pioneer pl-l70

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Oldskool88

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I saw a pioneer pl-l70 linear tracking turntable at a pawn shop for 35 bucks today. What are the advantages of linear tracking turntables? I know very little about linear tracking turntables, so I was curious if this is a good deal or not. Any info would be appreciated, thanks.
 
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i have a pioneer liner track turntable, i tried to play a record pushed play the arm moved but wouldn't drop to play the record and the light that says up is on all the time is there some kind of ajustment for that i would appreiate the help thanks
 
The advantage of a linear tracking turntable is that it mimics the motion of the master cutting lathe. It will always maintain the needle at a perfect zero angle to the record groove.

Most 80s linear tracking turntables use servo control on both the platter and the X axis of the tonearm. The servos are controlled by a program written into an eprom - "Logic Controlled" in 80s lingo.

One of the problems with eproms is that they can lose or develop corrupted data over time, especially after years of non-use as they require a small charge to maintain the data.

There are other mechanical problems that plague linear tracking turntables too like the nylon gears breaking or ceasing, someone forcing the arm off-sync, etc. So always test a linear tracker before purchase because they can be hard or impossible to fix.
 
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