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Mark1966 said:
Very sweet looking kit!
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This turntable was upgraded in a few spots by the previous owner, so an even better deal for me. Sounds beautiful!!!:headphone:
That stand though, what a labor of love that was. So much hidden engineering, and so much on display too. A weighted damped gimbal designed to always keep the turntable level (even through an earthquake) and not let any vibrations get through the stand to the stylus. A real furniture grade work of art I think. Custom made gimbal bearing sitting under the main plinth connected to a steel bar holding about 45kgs vertically. Gravity pulling the weight down always keeps the plinth above the gimbal level. You can swing the weight back and forth and the needle doesn't skip a track, at all, and returns to level on it's own when still.
 
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TroyTools said:
This turntable was upgraded in a few spots by the previous owner, so an even better deal for me. Sounds beautiful!!!:headphone:
That stand though, what a labor of love that was. So much hidden engineering, and so much on display too. A weighted damped gimbal designed to always keep the turntable level (even through an earthquake) and not let any vibrations get through the stand to the stylus. A real furniture grade work of art I think. Custom made gimbal bearing sitting under the main plinth connected to a steel bar holding about 45kgs vertically. Gravity pulling the weight down always keeps the plinth above the gimbal level. You can swing the weight back and forth and the needle doesn't skip a track, at all, and returns to level on it's own when still.
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Classic Troycraft above and beyond an then some!
 
TroyTools said:
This turntable was upgraded in a few spots by the previous owner, so an even better deal for me. Sounds beautiful!!!:headphone:
That stand though, what a labor of love that was. So much hidden engineering, and so much on display too. A weighted damped gimbal designed to always keep the turntable level (even through an earthquake) and not let any vibrations get through the stand to the stylus. A real furniture grade work of art I think. Custom made gimbal bearing sitting under the main plinth connected to a steel bar holding about 45kgs vertically. Gravity pulling the weight down always keeps the plinth above the gimbal level. You can swing the weight back and forth and the needle doesn't skip a track, at all, and returns to level on it's own when still.
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What a fantastic piece of work. Utterly drool-worthy. Or (in my case) would have been years ago in my analogue days. Now my entire music collection is encoded to FLAC, so it needs nothing more than a 1TB USB drive sticking out the back of a NVIDIA Kodi box. Hifi on the cheap. :smug:
 
Yep, I'm all digital and have been for decades after (stupidly) selling my carefully curated hard rock and metal record collection from my teenage years, but this big vinyl collection was gifted to me by an elderly neighbour, so now I'm doing vinyl again. I'm not a vinyl tragic at all, and do understand the limitations of both formats, but I definately prefer digital, hands down, but there is room for vinyl too, so I'm complete now.

Mark1966 said:
Classic Troycraft above and beyond an then some!
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Yeah, I have overbuilt my whole listening room, it's really not normal what I've done to this room, but I like it, and that's all that matters. I do it because I can, and should.
 
TroyTools said:
Oh yeah, merry Christmas to me. Clearaudio Emotion turntable with a Satisfy Tonearm. Sitting on top of a beautiful hardwood stand I made which was inspired by Clearaudio's "Statement" stand. I didn't have hundreds of kilo's of stainless steel laying around, but I do have wood.
Plus a record weight custom made by me, 500 grams of vinyl flattening goodness. :love:

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Very cool indeed!
 
TroyTools said:
Oh yeah, merry Christmas to me. Clearaudio Emotion turntable with a Satisfy Tonearm. Sitting on top of a beautiful hardwood stand I made which was inspired by Clearaudio's "Statement" stand. I didn't have hundreds of kilo's of stainless steel laying around, but I do have wood.
Plus a record weight custom made by me, 500 grams of vinyl flattening goodness. :love:

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Hi Troy this will sound naive is that work of art really a working turntable?
I've never seen anything like that before thats amazing mate.
Thanks for sharing it.
Cheers.
 
TroyTools said:
...I didn't have hundreds of kilo's of stainless steel laying around, but I do have wood.
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I've never had much SS lying around, as I (a former blacksmith) never much liked working with it. But I did have a lot of fine tool steels (W1, W2, S2, S3 etc, all good plain carbon stuff), roughly a tonne or so, which I had stored in an old shack down the hill from my house. I just discovered a couple of days ago that some asswipe has helped himself to them. Some people give cunts a bad name. :rage:

Stupid thing is, he almost certainly didn't know what he'd got, so he would have sold it for only a fraction of its value. Idiot.
 
TroyTools said:
Oh god, make it stop already...............

Quite rare, and exclusive.
Phono stage pre-amp wired inbetween turntable and main receiver.
Has really good reviews, and found it just a few km's from home.
Very happy. Testing (Blasting) Dio right now.
kitsune kte lcr-1 mk5c riaa stereo phono preamplifier.



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It still makes me chuckle, the way so many hifi hardware manufacturers still go in for those ridiculous 6mm sockets/plugs (their origin dating from ancient manual telephone exchanges). And "audiophile" tragics get so sniffy if you mention that you can squeeze just as many electrons through a smaller plug without having to worry about them all somehow bumping into each other.... :rolleyes:
 
Gargravarr said:
It still makes me chuckle, the way so many hifi hardware manufacturers still go in for those ridiculous 6mm sockets/plugs (their origin dating from ancient manual telephone exchanges). And "audiophile" tragics get so sniffy if you mention that you can squeeze just as many electrons through a smaller plug without having to worry about them all somehow bumping into each other.... :rolleyes:
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There's probably billions of them still "New In Box" from way back then still just waiting to be installed in modern hardware.
 
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