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Resurrecting Record Turntable

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Patrick Wong, Jul 24, 2010.

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  1. apriusfan

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    Out of curiosity, what happens if the source record has some 'skips'? In the old days, you lifted the needle for a moment and then let it down and hoped that the time the needle was lifted was sufficient to get past the skip area.
     
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    This afternoon I received the phono preamp referenced in my OP. It delivers a good signal to my receiver, around the same level as the DVD player provides.

    Comfortable listening volume is at -30 db to -25 db. At that volume setting I do not hear any hum or noise coming from the preamp. When I turn up the volume to 0 db I hear very slight noise and no hum. Therefore the AC power supply is sufficiently filtered for my purposes.

    Thanks to all for their comments.
     
    #22 Patrick Wong, Jul 29, 2010
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    Yep. My dad and step-mother had an old Edison cylinder player and a very small collection of cylinders. Audio quality was not great.

    Before that, music was recorded on punched paper rolls or accordion-folded stiff paper, and played back in player pianos or organs of the sort used by organ grinders. At the Nickelodeon Museum in Revelstoke there is a full-size church organ that can be played conventionally on its keyboard, or played from a paper roll. Such paper rolls accurately reproduce the playing of the musician who cut the original by playing on a piano or organ designed for the job.

    I own a hand-cranked street organ that plays paper rolls. It was built for me, but in the style of the old instruments and is entirely hand-operated. The crank turns the spool that draws the paper over the suction-operated "reader," and at the same time operates the bellows that provides both suction for the reader/player mechanism, and air for the pipes. Such instruments pre-dated even the Edison cylinder players, though mine is new.

    I cut that Gordian knot by losing all my old LPs when I moved from CA to ND. Actually, I think I stored them at my mother's house, and they got lost when she moved. But they were all badly scratched anyway, since I am a klutz. CDs are far more robust.
     
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    I have a Thorens TD 165 belt drive turntable. I hooked it up to my PC using an LKG solid state preamplifier PRE600. I bought that at Fry's for a small amount of money (it had to be less than $60.)

    I works fine on my PC, and I imagine it would work well on a stereo system. The belt still works, and the cartridge still works. However, a replacement belt would be $25 last time I checked.

    I have transferred some music to my PC, but it does take a fair amount of work to identify the tracks and clean the signal (remove clicks, etc.)
     
    #24 oxnardprof, Jul 29, 2010
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