Bettye Lavette - "Things Have Changed" - Saw her last weekend at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch Station in Meigs County, Ohio. They did the entire album in order.
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@boxer12, Thanks for the update. It sounds like a labor of love. Did you use any type of adhesive in it’s construction? Are you a machinist? What about the bearing? Any more details a layman could understand.…? ………………… @reubent , Common’ dude.. you have to give more details than that? ……………………….. I just installed my Synergistic Blue outlet that feeds my front end. |
Porcupine Tree / Hand.Cannot. Erase slaw, 6t5gto, Thank you. To answer your questions: I started my career as a tool & die maker, then went into R&D & eventually management. Never lost my love of working with metal though so have had a small machine shop in my basement for about 20 years. 6t5gto, I do not have a lathe large enough to face off the 12" aluminum so had to outsource that. Everything else was made in the basement except the current bearing, which I bought & highly modified. Slaw, I have many many hours into that bearing. It started out as a commercial jet engine distribution valve which metered the fuel going to the fuel nozzles in that given engine. I picked it because liked the idea of a relatively soft material coated with a thin layer of very hard material. It is about as "decoupled" as possible from the platter while still remaining safe & practical. |
@boxer12 - if you had a lathe at home that could handle a 12"+ piece of stock I was going to be even more impressed. Over, that is a phenomenal achievement. Much better than anything Slaw could pull off , ha ;) hell, I felt pretty impressed just setting my new table up. I even did it with my big boy pants on! Radiohead- Amnesiac 45rpm version- stellar |
Sonic Youth / The Destroyed Room slaw, LOL... I'm going to follow your advice on the rack & try some sample pieces of carbon fiber (to see what I like best) before going full bore into it. My son took some pictures of it right after it was built & posted them on Turntable Porn website. The pictures are not that good (the TT is red, not pink) & everything in those pictures (stand, record storage, arm, equipment, as well as the TT itself) has been greatly improved since then so don't judge me to harshly. Link is below: https://imgur.com/a/fV2M4#BuZnFnb In regard to the arm... I'm currently using a Polestar & an older (80's) Victor. The Victor is great with MM cartridges. |
Starless & Bible Black Squarepusher / Go Plastic Tom Waits / Alice slaw, Likewise, thanks, & that is a fair question. I actually own a half dozen or more MC's & have spent the majority of my audiophile life listening to them. (I still have a concept MC & Dynavector Karet set-up in headshells that I listen to occasionally) That said, nothing against MC's just lately I've been playing around with MM's & have to tell you, there are some gems out there. A couple older ones are the empire 4000 diii & the Grado signature. The empire rivals any of the MC's I've owned. It's to early to tell with the virtuoso, but if it continues to improve like it has tonight, it will become a mainstay. |
@boxer12, I’m not at all adverse to mm carts. In fact, I have an Acutex 420STR, I had re-tipped with a Shibata stylus a couple of years ago that mates perfectly to my ET-2.5 tonearm. This stylus is much quieter and more detailed. This will be the combo I’ll use on my tt project. I have a really nice compressor/filter system set-up for this application. Well, to be totally honest, I had an original Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood cart , I guess 8 years ago? Probably more...……… The Back Keys "Turn Blue" |
@Boxer12 - are you referring to the Afrocubism? I picked it up at a local shop, Waterloo Records in Austin. One of the owner turned me on to the World Circuit stuff. Most of it is AMAZING, https://shop.worldcircuit.co.uk the Caichaito is my favorite, incredible, the Ruben Gonzales is also excellent. Right now: Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days |
I am absolutely freaking BLOWN AWAY with how quiet the vinyl is and the incredible sound quality on this Yo La Tengo is. I know Summer Sun is not considered way up the list for a lot of YLT fanatics but I have always loved this disc and found a new copy for 25 bucks and it is AMAZING. Researching who mastered this for Matador records and who pressed it. It is THAT GOOD! |
@boxer12, Regarding the use of carbon fiber and balsa....Richard Vandersteen used a mix of those two materials in the driver cones in his (7) speaker. I’m going by memory but believe I’m correct. He is an avid pilot so his use of balsa makes sense from that aspect...light and stiff. ………………………………………………… Glen Hansard "Between Two Shores" |
@boxer12, Regarding your bearing material, I assume you liked the hard coating over the softer metal....the hard coating for dealing with wear and the softer metal for dealing with damping resonances? ………………………………………… Them "The "Angry" Young Them" Sony/Legacy/mono. Whoa! The music jumps out of the speakers! Neko Case "Hell On" |
Hey slaw, Your question in regard to the bearing material is absolutely correct. Also, thanks for the info on the balsa/carbon fiber material. Seems like it would be a good choice for an equipment platform, but you never know... Hence, I'm going to take your advice & buy a small amount of it first, to give it a try. I'm also going to try the solid carbon fiber & probably the birch version. It's interesting on their site (dragonplate), they have thin carbon fiber backed with linen they claim is good for reducing vibration. Probably worth trying as well, just at the contact points. |