Turntable blind testing on the gadget show…
- Thread starter tenpercenter
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The type of people that watch the Gadget Show wouldn't even batter an eyelid at spending £1000 on a mobile phone or £2000 on a gaming PC - I don't think the prices would be too shocking.
Del monaco
Del Monaco
Was just an advert really.
That would be shocking me (with £20 Nokia 2g)!
Snap! I have a Chinese mole (Xiaomi Redmi something or other) that was probably the same price as an Ortofon 2M Red!
Mike Reed
pfm Member
Either way it's incorrect, unless she stocks a warehouse full of kitchen flooring for the first. The second is simply grammatically impossible and therefore complete bollards. What's wrong with good old 'LPs' or 'records'. By referring to them as vinyl(s), it's akin to saying that you have a lot of metal on your drive.
Suffolk Tony
Aim low, achieve your goals, avoid disappointment.
I agree Mr Pig. I thought it was a very well-presented piece, which only hi-fi nerds could find fault with. It achieved its aim rather well and very concisely.
Darren L
Egalitarian
Either way it's incorrect, unless she stocks a warehouse full of kitchen flooring for the first. The second is simply grammatically impossible and therefore complete bollards. What's wrong with good old 'LPs' or 'records'. By referring to them as vinyl(s), it's akin to saying that you have a lot of metal on your drive.
That's pretty much what I thought Mike and why I passed comment in my original post.
I'd call them records, sold in record shops and played on record players.
Though good to see record players getting some exposure on mainstream TV.
linnfomaniac83
I bet you can’t wheelie a unicycle!
Indeed… and the reason they all used different cartridges is because they’re all complete packages… well almost anyway, the LP12 is the only one which comes with a phono stage so it’s actually the best VFM.
Salamander
pfm Member
The amplifier already had a phono stage fitted, making the built in one on the Linn redundant
linnfomaniac83
I bet you can’t wheelie a unicycle!
Might’ve sounded even better if they used the Urika then!The amplifier already had a phono stage fitted, making the built in one on the Linn redundant
Actually, I’m betting they probably did. The other two decks had MM cartridges, the LP12 is the only one with an MC. Also, they’d have needed to have a tonearm cable fitted to bypass the Urika.
herb
brain's right hemisphere
An interesting comparison for me.
Back in the early 1970s a magazine did a subjective test of various direct drive and belt drive tables The LP12 won and no-one knew why!
Up to then turntables were judged by their speed correctness, wow, flutter and rumble. Little else mattered and arms were lightweight with an awful Shure V15 highest trackability cartridge, all conceits at the time.
Things moved on fortunately for lovers of music
Back in the early 1970s a magazine did a subjective test of various direct drive and belt drive tables The LP12 won and no-one knew why!
Up to then turntables were judged by their speed correctness, wow, flutter and rumble. Little else mattered and arms were lightweight with an awful Shure V15 highest trackability cartridge, all conceits at the time.
Things moved on fortunately for lovers of music
ex brickie
pfm Member
I agree @fegs . Even listening to the video through a laptop it was pretty obvious which was which.
Might have been slightly more convincing if the guy hadn't said which was which at the beginning. It's not difficult to tell which direction he's walking in even when blindfolded - and the DJ knew the expensive one was on the right
Might have been slightly more convincing if the guy hadn't said which was which at the beginning. It's not difficult to tell which direction he's walking in even when blindfolded - and the DJ knew the expensive one was on the right
The P1 is an excellent record player.
Do you really think she needed the help?
ex brickie
pfm Member
narabdela
who?
Please see my first post ;0)