January 16, 20179 yr It's been a week and have to say I'm really digging this vinyl thing. Have ordered a good chunk of new vinyl mixed in with some nice used bargain finds, like the bill Evans above. Tried to keep my uturn somewhat minimal, went with ortofon om5e and internal preamp, hooked to my emotiva dc1 and powering stealth 6's (no cue lever! Haha). Really happy with the sound, the cart tracks really well, and have gotten some pretty clean vinyl so far I guess next question are accessories...looking at the spin clean manual record washer, but I don't think I have enough records to really warrant a cleaning system yet. Just picked up an audio quest brush and got a cork/rubber mat coming from turntable lab tomorrow. Using the magic eraser trick for stylus cleaning, thing freaking works. Will probably just focus on getting more vinyl lol.
January 16, 20179 yr Just now, grawk said: Keep it in an anti static safe I've shot myself before. I was feeling a bit frazzled, but after the discharge, I was fine.
January 16, 20179 yr 33 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said: Anti-static gun Anti static mat (cork rubber) with anti static brush not enough? Honest question, no snark implied.
January 16, 20179 yr When it comes to static, nothing is enough, IMHO. Static comes from Satan. Try it without first, it's always something you can get later.
January 17, 20179 yr Ryan, I think I have an extra discwasher zerostat gun laying around if you want it... pm me.
January 21, 20179 yr Anyone else have any strong preferences between alignments? I've always preferred stevenson, but i decided to give Baerwald a second chance. well, after about a week i've had enough. no matter how precise i tweak it, there is just too much distortion! went back to Stevenson, and everything is great again.
January 22, 20179 yr 14 hours ago, bjarnetv said: Anyone else have any strong preferences between alignments? I've always preferred stevenson, but i decided to give Baerwald a second chance. well, after about a week i've had enough. no matter how precise i tweak it, there is just too much distortion! went back to Stevenson, and everything is great again. I love me some vinyl, Cthulhu knows I've spent plenty on records, and I have a decent analog system (and my analog system now sounds like my CD player, when I use really clean records; go figure), but I have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about alignments. I've always tried for a close to perpendicular stylus position at each part of the record. I suppose that trying to make it as perpendicular as possible on average is a compromise. Are these alignments optimizing various attributes? Cartridge position can certainly make a big difference! On 1/16/2017 at 4:50 PM, Dusty Chalk said: Anti-static gun Why? You can get a carbon fiber brush for $10, and that completely solved my static problem. Edited January 22, 20179 yr by EdipisReks1
January 22, 20179 yr Well, as I said later, On 1/16/2017 at 5:29 PM, Dusty Chalk said: When it comes to static, nothing is enough, IMHO. Static comes from Satan. Try it without first, it's always something you can get later.
January 22, 20179 yr 9 hours ago, EdipisReks1 said: I love me some vinyl, Cthulhu knows I've spent plenty on records, and I have a decent analog system (and my analog system now sounds like my CD player, when I use really clean records; go figure), but I have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about alignments. I've always tried for a close to perpendicular stylus position at each part of the record. I suppose that trying to make it as perpendicular as possible on average is a compromise. Are these alignments optimizing various attributes? Cartridge position can certainly make a big difference! I guess this article kind of explains it: https://ammonite-audio.co.uk/tonearm-and-cartridge-alignment/ The Stevenson alignment is supposed to have slightly higher average tracing distortion, but less on the inner part of the record. I'm not sure why, but to my ears i am getting overall less distortion when i set the cart up with the Stevenson null points.
January 22, 20179 yr 6 hours ago, bjarnetv said: I guess this article kind of explains it: https://ammonite-audio.co.uk/tonearm-and-cartridge-alignment/ The Stevenson alignment is supposed to have slightly higher average tracing distortion, but less on the inner part of the record. I'm not sure why, but to my ears i am getting overall less distortion when i set the cart up with the Stevenson null points. Thanks! That's interesting.
January 23, 20179 yr The spin clean gadget will clean a boatload of records in a heartbeat. Highly recommended if you tend to come home with armloads of used records.
January 30, 20179 yr When does an innocent interest transcend the limits of the hobby and warp Into a... dark hobby? I bought a new headphone amp today... it came with a turntable attached... Lots of patina, but has been constantly serviced and maintained by SR, so it works fine. built in april 1979 apparently arm is an EPA-100p the more robust brother of the EPA-100, with regular bearings instead of sapphire, external armlift and no silicone damper in the counterweight. still got the titanium nitride armtube though. powersupply is slightly larger then the regular sp10 supply, to power the control unit, riia and speaker. the top plate is not attached to the bottom, but rests on adjustable feet. the spindle on the professional version is slightly thinner then regular, to allow manual centering of the record if the hole is not centered. the thin part of the weight has an extrusion that fills out the gap if the hole is correct, but if you want to manually center it, you just flip it around and use the fat side. So, did i really need another broadcast deck? No. But it used to belong to SR (Swedish radio) so now i have one Norwegian, and one Swedish deck Besides, its really cool, and probably better then the Norwegian one. I need a headshell before i can try it out, but i found and ordered an original headshell on ebay, so hopefully i'll have it up and playing soon. Edited January 30, 20179 yr by bjarnetv
January 30, 20179 yr Now you need a DR one as well... The Swedes did have nice tastes back in the day with ESL57's as monitors and stuff like that.
January 30, 20179 yr yeah, now i need a DR deck to complete the trifecta i haven't really figured out which tables they used, but it was probably som kind of EMT. Better start saving! And did they really use esl57 as monitors? That sounds like a pain for the maintenance guys Edited January 30, 20179 yr by bjarnetv
January 30, 20179 yr I heard that DR used EMT as well and some ended up here. Never seen one though and the price... eek!!! Yup, they had quite a few ESL57's which were then all "rescued" by the engineers when they upgraded. With QuadII's or 303 amps they probably worked great for years and years. My set is from 1968 and still on the original panels (refreshed electronics though) so it certainly can be done.
January 30, 20179 yr i guess the 57 must be slightly more durable then the 63 then, as they love delaminating and arcing! i still have my pair in the attic, but i'm sick of refurbishing the panels, so they will probably stay up there for a few more years.
January 30, 20179 yr Yeah the 57 design was much better from this standpoint. Nothing to delam and if you keep the input voltage in check, they won't arc. Many of the modern rebuilders use far better materials than Quad did (and still do) use so with a fully rebuilt set of panels this is less of an issue.
January 30, 20179 yr Nice find! I aways wanted an SP10 try. I'm sure you know that there are lots of resources for parts and extreme custom plinths etc. The EMT 900 series broadcast tables are very collectable so the prices are kind of nuts. Very cool looking but your SP10 should kick it's butt.
January 30, 20179 yr Yeah, the danish radio EMT will have to wait until i am a seriously successful, up and coming businessman. Acquiring these two decks in such a short interval was painful enough, although both were quite reasonable all things considered I think i'll try to keep this sp-10 in the broadcast plinth, as they are to rare to sacrifice in the hunt for a slight performance boost, and i like the wabi sabi look.
January 31, 20179 yr Just got this after not listening to the cd in at least 10 years. I'd forgotten how much I liked this album. Sounds real nice and packaging is excellent. Great job Analog Spark!
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