Hi! I just bought (today) a philips 418 automatic turntable at a flee market.
Does anyone know/have it? it's missing a needle (which doesn't seem to be a problem) but the belt seems to have melted and so there are some gooey bits of it laying there... what should i do to clean it?
also.. (and now you'll see how ignorant I am) there's a little tuner scaled 0 til 4 (twice). can any one tell me what that is?
I've been transferring a few LP tracks to my computer this weekend. It's good to be pushed into revisiting some old favorites and, at the same time fixing a few things, like pops and ticks (they can be cut out as in any word processor document).
I'm pretty conservative about changing the EQ on the recordings, but it seems sensible to boost the bass a bit on some songs since the limitations of the LP sometimes mean the low frequensies need to be limited so the stylus can follow the grooves properly. I've noticed a few tracks sounding thin and "wimpy" and a small bass boost improves this when playing back on a good home or car system.
hello all. i'm new here and everyone seems friendly and helpful. thanks in advance for any solutions to my problem.
i just bought a General Electric 300 from Ebay (one of those old ones that folds up like a suitcase) and it turns out that the motor is spinning the platter way too fast. it's not up to chipmunk speed but there's about a 25% percent speed increase. is there any sort of minor "timing" mechanism inside the turntable that allows one to manually adjust the speed? i figured i would ask before i opened it up.
my only other thought is that the Ebay seller, in order to provide a working turntable, used a belt that was not made for that model. they might have used a belt that was a little too tight which would cause the motor to spin faster. is that right? i've used a turntable in the past that had a loose belt which caused the platter to spin slower than normal.
anyway, thanks for any help you can give me. once i solve this problem i'm going to replace the wires and then the speakers. wish me luck! here's a pic~
I used to mess around with 4-channel LP's (stereo plus 2 speakers in the back). Now my old Sanyo SQ decoder is quite dead and I kind of miss Quadraphonic sound. Especially Dark Side of the Moon.
I'm noticing more CD's have been mixed or remastered into multichannel, even though the notes don't mention it. Some songs on Gentle Giant's remastered Giant for a Day from 1978 play in multichannel on my Dolby surround receiver. Many songs on the new Kate Bush are multichannel as well, although the sigle, "King of the Mountain," is in regular 2-channel stereo. I like this trend.
Some of the remastered CD's I've heard aren't really any better than the LP records. I think the same is true of some of the "audiophile" vinyl from companies like Mobile Fidelity. Then again, sometimes they get it right. The engineers being more important than the technology itself in many cases.
Genesis have stockpiled several '70's albums remixed from the original multichannel masters (the 2"-wide tapes used to record the band in the recording studio). They are due to be re-released in a format called Super Audio (SACD) at some point in time. The format will be multichannel, rather than 2-channel stereo, although that may be an option.
A few years ago, Atlantic Records released "Definitive Edition" Genesis CD's transferred from the best 2-channel tapes they could find (those are the 1/4"-wide stereo tapes used at the LP or CD mastering house). I bought a couple of those but I can't hear that much improvment.
By the time a recording goes from 16 or 24 tracks down to 2, there can be a fair amount of noise and a bit of distortion introduced into it, especially with older technology. If you go back to the multi-track master and have a talented engineer, even a 40-year-old tape can still sound great. The stereo version of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds proves that.
Ok, so yeah - I'm a big music fan and I just bought my first record player. It's the Stanton T.80. I kind of put the cart before the horse though because I don't have a home theatre system yet - not even a reciever. All that stuff is on the way and I should have it by this weekend. When I brought home the record player, however, I was kind of impatient so I decided to just try and run it off on of the aux ports on my TV. Since the record player has a line out option, I figured it would work. Long story short, I can hear music coming off the needle on the record player but nothing is coming out of the TV. I wish I had a receiver so I knew for sure that it's just me needing to route it through a pre-amp or something (I know nothing about this stuff), but since I don't and it'll be a few days, I thought I'd try and track down some knowledgable people. That'd be you guys hopefully. =) Am I dumb for thinking I can play my record player via the stereo jacks on my TV? Am I doing something wrong on the record player side of it? Thanks for any help you can toss me.
Hi, I'm new to the group. I'm in Ottawa. My preference for music is the mid-60s/late-70s. Many of my albums have not been played for 15-20 years since I no longer have a turntable. Recently, I have been seriously thinking about buying a new one. Any 100-200$ suggestions? The local RadioShack (The Source) has one for 150$.
Also, I was wondering if there is a 'Vinyl' group or club around Ottawa for people of all ages? Preferably one that meets occasionally to listen to music.
You can hear my take on 21st century Progressive Rock on the newest episode of The Electrical Radio Program. Since the focus is on newer songs (and my stylus is still busted), there are very few vinyl cuts included. Maybe I'll do a show of older classics later.
In other news... I'd like to get me one of these (from Music Hall audio)!
