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Just seen this in an e-shot I must have subscribed to!
http://www.remusic.it//imgcache/140_3ce3f8d924c/1473_370_0_d9c9e9bc08.jpeg
chris@panteg
07-02-2012, 09:58
Just seen this in an e-shot I must have subscribed to!
http://www.remusic.it//imgcache/140_3ce3f8d924c/1473_370_0_d9c9e9bc08.jpeg
Nice :) be alright as a spare deck.
From the photo I'm not sure how you would get close enough to it to cue up a record!. maybe suspended from the ceiling like Tom Cruise in Mission impossible 1 :)
From the photo I'm not sure how you would get close enough to it to cue up a record!. maybe suspended from the ceiling like Tom Cruise in Mission impossible 1 :)
:lol:
sq225917
07-02-2012, 13:45
@Alex, lol, yeh not high on practicality is it.
Nice, but really a bit silly.
prestonchipfryer
07-02-2012, 15:03
Unbelievable! You'd need a bloody big rack for it. :uhho:
Nah, you'd just sit it on top of your butler.
Marco.
freefallrob
07-02-2012, 15:37
http://www.remusic.it//imgcache/140_3ce3f8d924c/1473_370_0_d9c9e9bc08.jpeg
Obviously trying to compensate for something.
:D
Dominic Harper
07-02-2012, 15:48
Da Vinci Labs. Mmmm, suits you sir
I also note that it has been painted bright red, lest any vistor to your home should fail to notice it somehow!.
I believe that the official colour is listed as 'Baboon's Arse'.
Marco.
I'd be forever nudging the arm mountings trying to get to the platter, and buggering up the alignment.
What a silly, silly thing...
Now I have no taste at all, and am particularly fond of multi-arm turntables aesthetically - but even I draw the line at this one! :spew:
Now I have no taste at all, and am particularly fond of multi-arm turntables aesthetically - but even I draw the line at this one! :spew:
Although if it was in lilac... before anyone else says it! :lol:
Just because it's big, doesn't mean it sounds any good.
Yeah, and it's playing an album that was almost certainly heavily eq-d as all these old Deccas were :)
Bring back tone controls, that's what I say :D
I thought you had them already....
How can anyone put that much effort into building a record player and not use Linear tracking.:doh:
Doesn't matter what you do, it's only going track right twice per side max.;)
Linear tracking is far from being issue free.
Dominic Harper
07-02-2012, 18:01
Don't all scream at once, but why do turntables, decks etc have to have a multitude of arms. You can only use one arm at a time. So why do people like these sort of turntables. It is the same with cartridges, why so many you can only use one at once? And yes, Dom has a multitude of arms and carts, but I always get the same response It's for the business, that is going on his headstone, and it will be sooner rather than later of he carries on lololololol.
Natalie;)
How many pairs of shoes do you have Natalie? Or handbags? :eyebrows:
It's the same with arms and cartridges.
Slippershod
07-02-2012, 18:21
I believe that the official colour is listed as 'Baboon's Arse'.
Marco.
:lol:
... and you wouldn't pick a fight with one either ...
Dominic Harper
07-02-2012, 18:22
How many pairs of shoes do you have Natalie? Or handbags? :eyebrows:
It's the same with arms and cartridges.
I can see why you would say that, but you missed my point. I'm not saying it's wrong and that you shouldn't have lots of carts or arms if that is what you want. I just don't see the logic behind having that many arms on one turntable.
Natalie;)
jazzpiano
07-02-2012, 18:47
I'd like to see the "poor man's" version, maybe 6 ottomans on beer cans with a Dual in the middle? Might work...
~Barry
Hi Natalie,
Don't all scream at once, but why do turntables, decks etc have to have a multitude of arms. You can only use one arm at a time. So why do people like these sort of turntables. It is the same with cartridges, why so many you can only use one at once?
SCWEEEEM!! :D
Actually, it's very simple... Take Dom's Garrard, for example, in that lovely big slate plinth, and then have a look at this one:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4645/garrard401spu.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/garrard401spu.jpg/)
...and imagine that if the plinth were big enough (and Dom's was too), another tonearm could be fixed onto the bottom L/H corner, with it being a different type from the other two, and all fitted with different cartridges, with each arm and cartridge combination excelling at reproducing specific types of music.
Therefore in effect, you could have, say, a 'rock music tonearm/cartridge', a 'dance music tonearm/cartridge', and a 'jazz music tonearm/cartridge', all on the one turntable. You could also mix 9 and 12" arms, as shown on the picture above, or unipivot and gimbal-based arms.
Yes, you can't use any more than one example of each at the same time (well, you could, but the effect would be 'interesting' to say the least! :eyebrows:), but what you can do is select the optimal arm and cartridge for the type of music you want to play, all set-up and ready to go!
Personally for me, that would be like a dream come true!!
Does that answer your question now? ;)
Marco.
Dominic Harper
07-02-2012, 20:33
Hi Natalie,
SCWEEEEM!! :D
Actually, it's very simple... Take Dom's Garrard, for example, in that lovely big slate plinth, and then have a look at this one:
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/4645/garrard401spu.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/garrard401spu.jpg/)
...and imagine that if the plinth were big enough (and Dom's was too), another tonearm could be fixed onto the bottom L/H corner, with it being a different type from the other two, and all fitted with different cartridges, with each arm and cartridge combination excelling at reproducing specific types of music.
Therefore in effect, you could have, say, a 'rock music tonearm/cartridge', a 'dance music tonearm/cartridge', and a 'jazz music tonearm/cartridge', all on the one turntable. You could also mix 9 and 12" arms, as shown on the picture above, or unipivot and gimbal-based arms.
Yes, you can't use any more than one example of each at the same time (well, you could, but the effect would be 'interesting' to say the least! :eyebrows:), but what you can do is select the optimal arm and cartridge for the type of music you want to play, all set-up and ready to go!
Personally for me, that would be like a dream come true!!
Does that answer your question now? ;)
Marco.
Sort of, but it more about the pressings rather than the Genre? I don't know enough about hifi in general, but I do understand what you are saying. I think I will leave it there otherwise it will become another analogue verses mastered :lol: You know what I mean Marco.
Natalie;)
pure sound
09-02-2012, 10:30
It is nice to have the option to switch occasionally between an SPU and something that plays what's actually on the record! ;)
chris@panteg
09-02-2012, 10:40
It is nice to have the option to switch occasionally between an SPU and something that plays what's actually on the record! ;)
:lol: you have a very nice alternative cartridge Guy :)
It is nice to have the option to switch occasionally between an SPU and something that plays what's actually on the record!
Lol - well you must have one of those funny SPUs that only works on a Thursday! ;)
Marco.
sq225917
12-02-2012, 18:19
You might want one arm for mono, one arm for normal records and another arm set up with an alignment biased heavily towards end of side distortion if you played a lot of 7" singles
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