audio-talk

Hear Hear! I freely admit to a tear in the eye. Course it could have been caused by Jenson's singing!

Yes, I thought of mounting the long member in a suspended swinging link, allowing it to move fore-and-aft. I'll have to have a bash at drawing it.

The geometry works out nicely, but I cant help wondering about the losses and play in the extra bearings involved. I thought the same. If I ever have a go at one of these, I would make the longer arm the main structural unit. I'm not sure if it would work, but by having a tall bearing pillar with t...

It is, isn't it? Took me a while to realise just how clever it is. This helped: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales%27_theorem . Th only thing I don't like is the headshell bearing being part of the main structure. I think I would make the longer element the main structural member with the shorter e...

Just when I thought I'd scratched all my DIY vinyl itches I come across this: http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/ ... hales.html .

God help me...

Oh b*gger!

True, and I need to watch my step in case he decides to send the boys round.

Well that's what happens when you adopt this strange laid-back hippy-style hands-off attitude. You just aren't fulfilling your responsibilities as a forum director. Next thing you know, we'll all be having our own ideas about what sounds good and how to achieve audio nirvana.

You're falling down on the job, Nick. I'm sure I know someone who could give you some valuable lessons in how to run a forum!

Welcome to the haven of tranquillity and wisdom (that's when Dave's not slagging off Grandad Phil, and Andrew I's poetic urges aren't troubling him too much).

Seriously, this is definitely the most relaxed and informative forum out there. Enjoy...

pre65 wrote: Does anyone else remember this LP, or even still have a copy ?

Yes, I have! The thunderstorm was a regular demo favourite in Wanstalls HiFi Emporium in 1975 or so.

Interesting, that. I was just thinking that of all the synthetic instruments I'm aware of, the one that stirs my emotions most effectively is the Mellotron. It then occurred to me that what I'm listening to is simply a collection of slightly dubious analogue recordings of various acoustic instrument...

You're a brave man, Mr B. Power to the elbow, and all that.

Drifting off topic a bit, can anyone tell me why plate amps are called plate amps?

Assuming that we're talking about motor vibration here, which I would hazard a guess would be from 50Hz upwards, I wouldn't have thought that the turntable/arm assembly would be moving as a solid entity with no relative movement between the various parts. At that sort of frequency, it's more likely ...