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Len is your man if it comes to original westrex…no one knows this stuff better. If not successful I can offer a dialba head and vc200 amps.. sounds damn good and is very close to 1700 specs.. i have to look up W1700 rail to rail Voltage.but you will get louder cleaner cuts than with a 3D head… The ...

we're a pro mastering studio, so hope to cut commercial lacquers
thanks for your reply_Mark

we are finally moving forward with setting up our Scully lathe, and need to find another channel of cutting amp and a stereo head, the system is currently Mono only and we'd like to upgrade it to stereo, I'm (obviously) a newb on this, so if anyone can offer any suggestions, please let us know, thanks

is this still not available? who's runnin that place, Elizabeth Holmes?

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thanks, _M

what is the time length a lock groove has to be?

_M

I met Les Paul once, who told me a bit about his lathe. I believe the platter is the flywheel from a Cadillac transmission.
Can't recall anything else at this point. _M

do you think it will have enough torque?
I ask because I'm hoping to do the same thing on a recently arrived 501, with an SP10 M2 I already own
I might go for a SP10 M3, but... well, the money
please let me know what you think
thanks_M

what Technics motor did you end up with?
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nice looking town_M

I have had a few lathes in the past 8 years since I started this crazy journey but the one that I have kept and sits beside me now is a Frankenlathe. ...This thing was CRAZY HEAVY! They don't tell you that in the pictures how heavy these things are when you buy them in real life. have you kept it r...

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gonna edit a little bit, but getting my 2nd 6N was very serendipitous.
I started my internship in may/june 2012 with Dietrich at Complete Mastering (hi D!) in Bethel CT,...
nabbed the whole basement of stuff for $200

thats a great story, do you still have both and use them?

_M

My wife works in an art museum and has told me unusual provenance stories. So it recently occured to me each lathe acquisition is its own war story. So what's yours? Did someone you had not heard from since high school call you out of the blue, "you'll never guess what I just inherited?" Was risking...

as they kept blowing takes and trashing the lacquers I kept saying to myself,
thats $50, thats $100, thats $150, $200...

_M

@soulbear, I agree, you are not a movie critic, its a film adaptation of a play by August Wilson, not a biopic excellent piece here about it, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/reimagining-august-wilsons-ma-raineys-black-bottom-on-the-small-screen?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=CjwKC...

thanks, I haven't received it yet, but if anyone out there is looking for one, hopefully I'll have one available
within a couple months, cheap!

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What might be a fair asking price for a functioning Scully 501 original bathtub lathe motor?

_tx_M

not mine, on FB marketplace, I may be willing to assist in shipping if needed_M
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2385172771763798/

DMM = direct metal mastering. i.e. cutting into a coper disc instead of lacquer. It represented the state of the art and the last hooray from Neumann in cutting lathe technology before CD's took over. As far as fidelity, the 7"33 can be the worst of the vinyl formats. (inner diameter tracking disto...