Sharp VZ2000 Replaced Turntable With BlueTooth

[pete]

I have been restoring 2 of these, one has side B tone arm completely missing and when they snatched it they even pulled out the tone arm wires. I was going to remove side A, but I can not get to it. It seems the chrome piece that attaches to the front has some mysterious way of being removed. I was going to measure it for a 3D printing . The schematic tear-down is unreadable. I was going to see if side A was exactly like side B tone arm, but I didn't want to break something. So, after a year of this insanity I did this: I put it all back together and left the phono out. I fit a 3/4" x 13.5" x 13.5" mdf piece of wood over the hole after I made a bracket to fit inside on the same protruding mounts where the phono went. Nothing fancy, but I did not use the mounts that you can see "daylight " thru. Those I ran wires thru to plug into the AUX INPUT, until I got the bluetooth receiver. The turntable has a rechargeable battery that charges up when you plug it in. I haven't ran it all the way down, yet, but I've got around three hours on it with it working flawlessly. The bluetooth receiver, also has a rechargeable battery that charges when it's plugged in. If you are a Nikola Tesla you could probably figure out the plugs from the phono and get juice to run the new turntable and the bluetooth receiver. I did not want to mess with anything to do with the VZ2000. In fact, if you have one of these that just has the speakers working without the tape deck, phono, etc. you can just plug a bluetooth receiver into the AUX INPUT and bring it to life from your phone or a bluetooth turntable that is in the house and use it as a 38 pound stereo pair of speakers. The board that the turntable is mounted on has added some weight to this, but I choose 3/4" MDF because I had it laying around. I painted it silver, but I butchered it up when I had to re-drill the final holes. One could even wrap the board with some contact paper or I was thinking of an old vinyl record cover when you easily remove the new turntable. The picture with it playing is not mounted correctly. The directions for hanging this on a wall is not clear. You do get a template for the mounting, it needs to be tweaked a bit. And remember to turn it off before you press the tone arm release or it will skip across the record. Not good. Keep the stylus guard on it until you got it adjusted. The turntable is this:

ION Audio Treble LP Stereo Turntable (Black)
B&H # IOIT95 MFR # TREBLE LP

There are cheap "suitcase" turntable out there, but this one runs vertical. So anyways, I hope this helps someone out there.

 

[nikonfoo]

WOW not understanding it all
but WOW
so you have mounted a new player on the outside of the box

 

[Dbzerk]

So..... do you lay it down to play the records?

 

[pete]

-1. Sorry for being so incoherent.
2. I have a vz2000 that had the B tone arm ripped out of it. For 20 years I kept an eye out for another vz2000. I found one that worked that needed to be re-belted, I 3d printed sliders and a power switch, fixed antenna, etc. and cleaned it up and painted both halves (not the upper part that is metal).
3. You can play them flat or vertical. The white round plastic cover in the center has left handed threads and it screws down over the LP. Like I mentioned, I had to re-position the TT to get to "hang" down to play perfectly. It does now. It does not slide and if you have a bad spot on your moldy vinyl it will keep playing it over and over just like a regular TT. I have converted vinyl to hard drives with various turntables from ION. A couple of them burn right to disk. A couple of them put them on SD memory. Then I saw this one that plays vertical, the ION Treble.
4.Like I mentioned, I used the original TT mounting holes and placed 2 pieces of MDF on them to hold the vertical TT.
5.This TT is bluetooth out and there is also a 1/8" output that will connect to your AUX IN on the back of the VZ2000. Not included. I also found out that it will play bluetooth to a bluetooth speaker/speakers while also playing the 1/8" output to AUX IN. There is a "lag" between the bluetooth speaker and the VZ2000 AUX IN, which adds a nice re-verb from another room by adjusting the VZ2000 volume. The TT also has a built in rechargeable battery that lasts for most of the day. It comes with a AC/DC PS. I use rechargeable batteries in my VZ2000 and played it all day while I was testing it out. Since you are not using the original TT you are saving a lot in battery use and the bluetooth TT is very easy on power.
6.The TT is very light and easy to remove from the 2 screws to carry.
7.I haven't weighed this yet, but since I used a good part of a piece of MDF 3/4" X 1' X 2' it may be heavier. I used the 3/4" because that's what I had laying around. And, I wanted something sound for the TT. I am not going to be carrying this "re-newed" boat-anchor very far! But, again, you could use lighter material.
8. You can put the new TT output wires that go to the AUX IN on the back thru an unused mounting hole for the non-existing original TT so they won't show from the front.
9.Be glad to help out anyone that feels left out because of a broken TT. I am thrilled with this set up. PM me, I will check back.
10. THE COST?? The ION Bluetooth Treble, which comes in white or black (I wish I would have gotten the black, I think it goes better with the black grills on the VZ2000 speaker fronts, $79 and free shipping. I am in no way shilling these, but it gave me back a great boombox!