Record deck replacement

You use the same method as with it stopped. ;-)

I'm curious as to why changing discs so quickly is important? If this is really needed, use two decks.

Transfer them all to your computer and make up a playlist for each session?

But even with my slow starting Thorens, it is up to speed by the time you position the pickup over the start groove and lower it. And even if you can't remove a disc from a spinning turntable, surely you could put it on one?

I just did. If I had a deck set up somewhere convenient I'd post to youtube, but it isnt. The only records I'm wary of doing that with is

I dont know any method that will do that, nor do you. If for whatever reason you need it that quick, use 2 decks or a computer.

NT

childish too

On 0.5% of designs possibly.

'Normally' one has a CD player.

yeah cos you are a dork.

Idler wheels will gradually get round again as you play..irrespective of heat.

I'm trying to work this through here. I can't get my fingers between the foam mat and the disc. Many of my discs have square or rounded edges, not bevelled.

OK, I'm not as bad swapping discs while turning as I was a month or so ago and it seems it is specifically the foam surface which is grabbing my fingers before I can get my nail under the edge. It will probably be much easier in lifting and centreing if I were to use a wool felt, but I'm not certain whether the reproduction will be as close to the original as the foam I am using right now. In any case, the foam was an experiment and needs to be lifted and replaced with something neater in the long term.

With a running platter, lift the outgoing record with the inbound record in the left hand while holding the pickup head in the right hand. Place new record on centre and needle on record. Doable, but

I suggest you get over it immediately after waking by banging your rattle on the cot side.

That'd take weeks. What if become enlightened and decide that a ten quid cartridge is surpassed by a thirty or hundred quid cartridge? What if I decide a paper board, polystyrene, cork or leather offers the best playing surface? Hmmm , leather sounds good.

Yes I can. It was surpirisingly easy to find the method once I'd closed my eyes.

I couldn't tolerate it for that long. Playing sessions are cut short and after a dozen or so playing sessions the plater falls into disuse.

maybe try a ridged mat, with circular ridges, makes it easy.

NT

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Ah - right. That explains it. I did at one time play records for a living (as it were) and got quite adept at swapping them. But of course didn't take much care in those days. I'd have a box of the same ones to pick between. ;-)

That's the original mat, except it had an aluminium ring underneath the playing surface for a 7" . It took me a little while to decide the reproduction problems with 7" were in part due to this decorative ring. When I removed the offending trim saxaphones sounded like they do live, there was no thought "Is that a viola?" Filling the gap between the black rubber and the disc with thin foam meant many previous records I thought of as poor were uplifted as distortion on loud vocals was removed and breathing became apparent. Actually this last part was also down to using a lower compliance stylus with conical tip and with the headshell weighted up with 1/2 oz lead so the pick-up represented something more like what was used with the early

This thin foam I have been using has put the audio quality of the 7"

well you could do this next time please!. Makes it a Whole lot easier to read;!....

Me neither .. given up on Grammy fones many years ago now!. And not missed them at all...

Well I still have some vinyls that are not anywhere on the net, so one day I am going to digitise them..

After that, its a museum piece.

I still play vinyl once in a while. Just to remind myself why digital is such a good idea.

Th funniest thing is that I spent YEARS trying to get an arm and cartridge to track a piece of 'Electric Ladyland' that always came out distorted.

Then I got the CD, and guess what. Its distorted there as well :-)

Think that was the death knell for my Hi Fi aspirations. If the bastards cant even record it properly what is the point of £20,000 of playback fidelity.

Then I went into some recording studios ' hey that hi-hat is overloading the tape mate' 'no its not, the needle is only just in the red' 'yeah but what about the peak to mean ratio and the pre-emphasis' 'F*ck off smart ass: whose got the job here, you or me?'

Brilliant idea. If only it sounded decent :-)

Rob