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| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy Good point, John. I'd forgotten about that NA motor quirk. Here's what the dealer manual says about the motor height: "The motor height is adjustable and it is important to line up the grooves on the pulley with the grooves on the platter. Make su... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy I suspect that the reason the belt doesn't slip at 45RPM is because the 45RPM pulley has a larger diameter than the 33RPM pulley. Since the grooves for both speeds on the Spacedeck's platter are the same diameter, the belt must stretch to accomoda... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy There's no clutch in the Spacedeck's motor. It's a simple AC synchronous motor, intentionally too weak to start the mass of the platter from a stop. The Spacedeck's designer, the late Tom Fletcher, argued that the motor's real job is just to keep ... | |
| LAST Record Preservative. Do you believe? The chemist who invented LAST insisted that his product was not a coating. He said that it bonded with or reacted chemically with the vinyl (I don't remember which, the conversation I had with him occured over a quarter century ago) to reduce the ... | |
| Anybody own any direct-to-disc LP's? Peter Ledermann who runs the highly regarded Soundsmith cartridge retipping and vintage equipment repair service has a side project called DirectGrace Records . Peter makes D2D recordings of artists performing in his showroom. The profits from the... | |
| Denon 103 Hot Rod Version Red Body? As I recall Garth said that he'd made about 100 Shibui cartridges. Shibui, by the way, is a Japanese word for a complex aesthetic concept. Garth said it doesn't translate into English very well but "understated elegance" is reasonably close. I sus... | |
| Does anyone know about Mana tables? I wrote the first Mana review for "Listener." I think generalizations about racks, stands, and isolation devices are usually foolish since it's been my experience that the performance of these things is very much dependent on the system and the en... | |
| Sensible upgrade from Denon DL160 "Bass feels a little flabby at times" is a pretty good description of the Black Cube. The thing is almost a PRaT filter. I can't think of a worse choice for reproducing rock music. | |
| Tonearm Upgrade for Spacedeck My Spacedeck is very happy with a Schröder 2. I had a machine shop fabricate a collet to fit the 2's pillar; it was cheaper and faster than ordering one from NA's US importer. Frank Schröder's customer support is fantastic too. | |
| anyone use ikea for lp racks? Missing first sentence in post above: Do you have a Home Depot or Lowes nearby? Both home improvement stores rent trucks by the hour inexpensively. Or check the Ikea store - they might offer hourly truck rentals too (the one in New Haven does, for... | |
| anyone use ikea for lp racks? Both home improvement stores rent trucks by the hour inexpensively. Or check the Ikea store - they might offer hourly truck rentals too (the one in New Haven does, for example). I rented a van from a Budget kiosk in Ikea when I needed to transport... | |
| LAST record preservative Back in the 1980s I called the LAST company and to my great surprise was put through to the chemist who formulated the stuff. I wanted to know if record cleaning fluid would remove his product. He said that the only thing that would take it off a ... | |
| Best "dark side of the moon" Here's a report on a 2003 shoot - out of nine different versions of Dark Side, conducted by some Boston area Vinyl Asylum correspondents. The links to photos don't work any more, by the way. | |
| Suitable cartridge fore Schroeder reference arm Herr Schroeder is extraordinarily helpful to owners of his arms, even years after a particular arm left his shop. I have no doubt that he will offer you some recommendations on suitable cartridges. | |
| Blues from the 50s/60s/70s Buy any blues LPs on the Arhoolie label you come across. Arhoolie was started in 1960 by a blues enthusiast named Chris Strachwitz, who still runs the label. Strachwitz has exceptional taste and, as far as I can tell, has never put out a bad recor... |