[sdiy] slightly OT: tube design of preamp

[harrybissell]

well actually...

in college I had an old Thorens turntable...  with a nickle epoxied to the tonearm
shell.  The operant term is "old"...  the tonearm was designed for a much heavier
cartridge.  The coin provided the necessary weight to counter-balance the normal
range of adjustment.

Of course a lot of people 'dissed' my turntable, thinking it was incapable of
tracking
properly...  I ran it at about 2.5gms which worked well for all the records that
were
flat...   ;^P

H^) harry   (now plays CDs)

"R. D. Davis" wrote:

> Quothe Harry Bissell Jr, from writings of Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at
> 01:41:20PM -0700:
> > H^) harry  (with 50 cents, in small change... taped to
> > the
> > tonearm to keep the 20Hz signals from bouncing the
> > stylus out of the groove :^)
>
> Just in case anyone who doesn't know any better is reading this
> thread, I'll add that, joking aside, taping any weights to a tonearm
> is not a good thing to do.  If a record is being played that the
> turntable can't track, then it's better to just switch to a better
> turntable and cartridge that can track better, rather than risk
> ruining records.  Of course, when it comes to most CDs, which we know
> probably won't last very long anyway, just make digital copies of 'em
> and continue to use them as coasters. :-)
>
> Just my two cents worth.
>
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