Turntables and Licorice Pizza

[bobabode]

Love those old Cosby albums. You're home will be reverberating with great music soon!

[bobabode]

Cool tables Jim.

[epifanatic]

Technics SL-1500, one of two that survived the fire a couple years ago. The Grado Prestige was salvaged from the lost Pioneer PL-520. I upgraded to the 8MZ stylus.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by barbara

So, now my son has speakers and a receiver. He is looking for a needle now. And he went to a garage sale and got six albums for $5.00 that he can't wait to listen to.

I was surprised at his choice of albums. But, coming from a garage sale, his choice was limited.

He got John Denver because he thinks he's heard of him.

Alabama and Willie Nelson because he knows he has heard of them.

And a couple of old Bill Cosby.

His generation has never even heard of those people........

We're getting old, Barbara.

Dave

[merrylander]

Here is a full auto, well you do have to push bottons. Yamaha PX-2 linear.
With a denon DL-160 or Audio Technica AT31E.

[BlueStreak]

Anybody here ever work on B&O turntables?

I'm still waiting on word from Beoworld.

Dave

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I have a Pioneer PL-41 and like it a lot. I'm pretty sure Boreas has one in his collection too, or is at least quite familiar with it. I really like it. There are several long AK threads on this deck. Very attractive and rock solid performance - a poor man's Empire.

I don't have one any more. (If I did, you would never have got that dustcover off of me. ) They're really nice tables.

Bob, I note that the two tables you say you have are changers, as is the ELAC you asked me about earlier. Is that what you're looking for?

The PL-41 and a number of the suggestions so far are single play manual turntables, the opposite end of the stick from your changers. They lack the convenience of a changer or even a single play automatic or auto return turntable but some believe that the lack of mechanical complexity in a manual makes for a much more reliable turntable and also a better sounding one.

For myself, I prefer single play auto return because you don't have to remember to get uo and take the arm off the record at the end. They're far less complex than a changer and also less complex than a single play automatic. Also, the good ones suffer no loss of fidelity from the return mech.

John

[barbara]

Originally Posted by barbara

So, now my son has speakers and a receiver. He is looking for a needle now. And he went to a garage sale and got six albums for $5.00 that he can't wait to listen to.

I was surprised at his choice of albums. But, coming from a garage sale, his choice was limited.

He got John Denver because he thinks he's heard of him.

Alabama and Willie Nelson because he knows he has heard of them.

And a couple of old Bill Cosby.

Update:
Son had to save up $$ for a needle. Ordered one off the internet for the bargain price of $30.00 plus shipping. Anxiously waiting for a package in the mail.

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Anybody here ever work on B&O turntables?

I'm still waiting on word from Beoworld.

Dave

Not yet. I have a BeoGram 4004 in the cue for refurb. I opened it up to get all the cap values, and I ordered the parts, but haven't done any bench work for almost a year now. Gotta get back in the groove.

Tone arm just tracks across to the stop, then goes back to rest position. I read up on posts about the most common problems, and it's usually cleaning the mechanism and replacing the bulb for the electric eye.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by barbara

Update:
Son had to save up $$ for a needle. Ordered one off the internet for the bargain price of $30.00 plus shipping. Anxiously waiting for a package in the mail.

Cool! Let us know how it works out Barbara. Patty and I had an interesting conversation with a bunch of young guys camping in the next site from ours on the Upper Kern, Limestone campground. They were into vinyl in a serious way. They all got a kick of the old guy sharing a joint with them.