Always reminds me of Clockwork Orange
Lovely thing.
It is effectively what you do every time you play a record! The AT is very high frequency, I’ve not taken a guitar tuner to it (I’ll do so later out of curiosity!), but I’d guess somewhere around 800 Hz to 1kHz, and it is very subtle/gentle. It certainly places no more stress on the tip or generator than tracking a record.
Yes, but annoyingly the ones I have just don’t seem to work with anything other than a very full alkaline battery. To be honest they bang through batteries so fast I don’t think there is a prospect of them leaking, plus 9V alkaline batteries are effectively double-sealed anyway (there are six individual 1.5V cells sealed in the plastic rectangular case). They start screeching very annoyingly for a new battery every six months to a year! It is amusing just how out of sync they are now despite all four being installed at the same time about 10 years ago.
FWIW I’ve never had a 9V battery leak, though I did replace the ones in my £300 Fluke multimeter and collection of sound-meters with lithium just to be sure. No way I want to be flushing corrosive battery gunk out of really nice kit!
Lovely thing.
David Gammon was a brilliant engineer and certainly had class; likely why Anne looked ready to shag him in this photo...
If its good enough for peter swain its good enough for me I've used it for years and its lapping paper ffs not sandpaper, id be much more wary of using a vibrating pad and fluid on my dynavector than the green stuff .Indeed.
In other news: people who sell cartridges/styli want them to wear out quicker…
PS You can actually still buy it, I just googled ‘Linn green stuff’!
Ah, yes, my mistake.That is actually Princess Margaret.......
https://filmandfurniture.com/2021/0...ic-reference-turntable-in-a-clockwork-orange/
I’ve nothing whatsoever against Peter Swain even though I’ve never needed anyone to set a Linn up for me, but just look and think about this for yourself. First identify exactly where the playing surface of the stylus is and how it contacts the groove wall. Now ask yourself how rubbing a bit of abrasive paper flat across the very bottom of the tip helps! 100% marketing bullshit, 0% science.
The AT637 actually cleans the stylus, which is why I use it.
PS If you want a credible opinion ask Dynavector. I’m sure they’ll tell you exactly what they think of the Linn green stuff! (They recommend the soft brush they supply with the cart and fluid they make).
She deffo shagged him then.That is actually Princess Margaret.......
https://filmandfurniture.com/2021/0...ic-reference-turntable-in-a-clockwork-orange/