A cheap modern turntable and an ancient valve amplifier

Remember the cheap crappy turntable from that designer series stereo? Well, I decided to connect it up to my Peto Scott tape recorder to see (or hear) how it would sound, and the turntable really doesn't sound bad at all played though it. It's not perfect, but it sounds a dam lot better than when it was in that cheap stereo. The strange this is, there is absolutely no preamplifier connected between the two devices, but it sounds as if it there is one, as it seems to do the equalization somehow, I have no idea how it's doing that.

I DO NOT claim ownership of the music shown, this is for demonstration purposes ONLY. I do own the record. it is part of my collection, if I could produce my own vinyl records i would do so.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• record
• player
• vinyl
• turntable
• ceramic
• cartridge
• tape
• reorder
• peto
• scott
• tube
• valve
• amplfiier
• teenage
• licks
• stone
• the
• crows

[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

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

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

[Rlotpir1972]

What's the track you're playing?

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!