Yes, but when you buy 3, the third one is free.
Having retired 3 years ago @55 (now 58 to save any bad mathematiciansđ), my retirement is well funded, but not âLottery Winâ level.
Budgeting is important for me and Iâm close to my endgame, barring consumables like Carts. If I keep it in the sub ÂŁ1.5k area, all will be well and divorce lawyers will not be requiredâŚ
Nice
Donât count on that.
Thatâs quite a lot of cartridge cost to play all those LPs.
Iâd rather have the joy of life than leave the money unspent in the end.
Sneak peak! Should be all set up tomorrow (well, the stereo tonearm anywayâŚmono cartridge is on order).
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.
That is a beast of a turntable!
(Which - I think - is praise!)
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. Iâm not sure why you think it is.
Itâs 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.
Thereâs an outer ring to ensure more flatness to the lp. Itâs not a continuation of the platter. You have to remove it each time.
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 canât 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.
Thatâs 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 donât know how valid this piece of advice was, but I have always followed it ever since. YMMV
I canât 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).
I would imagine that the lid up unbalances the suspension and acts as a âsailâ to pick up lots of air-born feedback, then transmitted to the TTâŚ