Got something cool? Non-shaving Acquisitions Thread

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.
 
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