A cheap modern turntable and an ancient valve amplifier

[MixerVM]

Is that a 2 speed or 3 speed turntable

[MGlBlaze]

Even in the first play and it sounded distorted and muddy before it was fed through that old amplifier, I could still make out the punch in the drums and it had more dynamics than a lot of modern music.

This is very telling.

I hope I wasn't just imagining that.

[mitchell14100]

lol

[mitchell14100]

@deanosabbathfan lol

[6452ss]

hi

[Rlotpir1972]

What's the track you're playing?

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@Rlotpir1972 The song he's playing is "Keep On Rollin'" by Stone the Crows.

[TheBeebopper]

The piezo-ceramic cartridge provides inherrent equalization which is usually tuned by the manufacturer to accurately match the expected RIAA curve as normally performed using a simple eq circuit and amplifier stage connected to a magnetic device. An accurate match of impedance and suitable capacitive loading results in a very good replay characteristics. Ideal for playing with, such as a homebrew 45 player. ceramic carts also work well as acoustic instrument pickups (better than miking up).

[jfdonnald]

Nothing complements a ceramic cartridge like a good tube amplfier. I have listened to old 45s in poor condition via simple GE stereo tube amplifier with new caps(vintage 1960) and a rebuilt Garrard 40B with a ceramic - tracking about 6 grams. Not bad at all. The extra weight helps keep the "plow" in the groove on the badly worn vinyl. Nice job Clem. Never let anything useful go to waste.

[deanosabbathfan]

nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dragonx13x]

i reallly like the music your playing, but the shit sounds like someone is playing a wammy bar over it, too much wah-wah over the whole thing, like it was wrapped in it.

[djFadeOut122]

i'm sure it sounds good if that record player had a stable and good speed.

[batterymaker]

Brother--that thing has some major wow issues.

[Buchoass]

Great job on this video.

Your camera work is getting much better.

I find lots of amazing stuff in the garbage, among the stuff is a record player that works great with the Bose speakers I found too.

Cheers

B.Champagne

[vlad48329reborn]

they sure don't make stuff like they used to.

[oviwolf]

interesting video! The crappy record playe sounds surprinsigly good through the Pedro Scott! PS:You should never do the belt-cutting-glueing thing ever..it just makes matters worse,as you figured out,of course(don't take me seriously,i know you knew what wa sgoing to happen whn you did the belt improvising).

[tribalmasters]

I was thinking maybe the plastic arm would make it sound weird!

[AG3304]

Amazing what a decent amp does.Perhaps not one of your better ideas to do that to the belt! :-)

Vintage is best!But you know that anyway.

[DrCassette]

Interesting experiment. The record player really sounds surprisingly good through this valve amplifier. But still, that record player is nothing I would use for playing my records... :)

[spannerworks1]

Clem

Great fun my friend I did the same at your age with a Grundig 50's radio as the amp on the gram setting with a Garrard deck.

the deck is what I call a "Crapogram"

Regards

Richard

[MarkPMus]

Valve amps sound lovely. Imagine a Rega P3 (with decent belt!) going through a high end Eastern electronics amp and nice KEF speakers! A hifi recipe made in heaven. Have you got a record player with decent MM cartridge and belt you could shove through the P-Scott? Also it is not just the cart weight that makes ceramics poor. They ruin the grooves cos they are unable to track hi frequencies, and they are incapable of any real bass. They also fail to correct the RIAA curve records are made with.

[SlimeTron5000]

I have that CD case seen at the left corner!

WMG is now allowing some songs. Waiting for Mungo.

[007ghg7]

isnt that the turntable you took off the broken radio?