Show us your turntable

Yes, but when you buy 3, the third one is free.

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Having retired 3 years ago @55 (now 58 to save any bad mathematicians😉), my retirement is well funded, but not ‘Lottery Win’ level.
Budgeting is important for me and I’m close to my endgame, barring consumables like Carts. If I keep it in the sub £1.5k area, all will be well and divorce lawyers will not be required…:rofl:

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Nice

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Don’t count on that. :slight_smile:

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That’s quite a lot of cartridge cost to play all those LPs.

I’d rather have the joy of life than leave the money unspent in the end. :slight_smile:

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Sneak peak! Should be all set up tomorrow (well, the stereo tonearm anyway…mono cartridge is on order).

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New cartridge :grinning:
The dark side is not the UK first, only the Japanese first :wink:

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Clearaudio Innovation
Clearaudio Universal tonearms (12" + 9")
Lyra Atlas Lambda SL cartridge

Still waiting on another cartridge, and my Superline Z-Plug from AV Options, but I have this pretty well dialed in for the 12" arm. That thing is a beast: 17" long from headshell to the back end (the 9" arm is 13" long).

The whole thing (including clamp and ring) weighs 62 lbs (28 kg). The stainless steel flywheel (bottom of platter) is almost a third of that.

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That is a beast of a turntable!

(Which - I think - is praise!)

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I guess the thing with a bonefied transcription deck and arm is do you actually have any 16" transcription discs? I imagine most are quite rare produced exclusively for broadcast.

This is not a transcription turntable. I’m not sure why you think it is. :person_shrugging:

It’s really designed for modern music LPs (33 and 45, 7", 10" and 12"), just like most everything else you see around here. It has a 78 RPM speed setting, but that would require a different cartridge altogether and I have no 78 RPM discs anyway.

Is the long arm and large platter no compatible with transcription discs? They are just 33s but on 16" vinyl so broadcast media vould play long uninterrupted pieces.

There’s an outer ring to ensure more flatness to the lp. It’s not a continuation of the platter. You have to remove it each time.

Fantastic :heart_eyes:
Love Clearaudio TT
My concept is a bit out of its depth !!

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Rather chic. What is the tonearm?

Should it be possible to play records on an LP12/ARO with the lid down?

If I try to do that, the finger-lift on the ARO headshell fouls against the lid occasionally, which can’t do the stylus or LP being played any good.

So I always leave the lid up, which I feel is probably not good for best sound quality.

That’s an interesting question @anon70766008. A long time ago (as in decades) someone informed me that if at all possible, dust covers should be removed from the turntable completely when playing records.
I don’t know how valid this piece of advice was, but I have always followed it ever since. YMMV :man_shrugging:t4:

I can’t be bothered to do that, so the lid on my LP12 is always fully up when I play records, as far as it will go.

As I said above, probably not ideal, as it probably causes some sort of acoustic feedback (microphony or whatever).

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I would imagine that the lid up unbalances the suspension and acts as a ‘sail’ to pick up lots of air-born feedback, then transmitted to the TT…

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