Talking of odd designs (wooden arms, B&O lateral tracking) doesanyone recall a TT that used a pin point laser device to scan the trackand the reflected light was received and converted to electrical signal(of course)? A sort of analogue bar code reader. It was marketed in theearly 80s and as far as I recall cost about 1000 quid here.
Big selling point was no wear on the vinyl. Maybe a great idea a bit toearly and overtaken by the digital revolution?
Best
Nic
At 03:38 02/09/2011, john barrick wrote:
I remember a turntable with a wooden tone arm, didn't know thename. My favorites just for looking cool were the flying saucerlooking Dennons in the mid/late '70s and the Micro Seiki that had mountsfor three different tone arms. I was on a budget and stuck withTechnics DD tables.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Gary Brumm<gabru@comsec.net>wrote:
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- Does anyone remember the Weathers turntable? I had one and itcame with a wooden tonearm carved for a specific cartridge.
- It was 33 only and had two synchronous motors and a mercuryswitch. It would come up to stable speed in about a quarterturn.
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john barrick
∗Leo got it right the first time∗
∗then he added a second pickup and got it righter∗