The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

I bought a beaten Rega Planar. Usually better price than arm only and got a great deal with fresh needle.

Asked a woodworker friend to cut the arm part of, glued a piece of wood to bottom and presto.

Hope this helps!

Isn't this tonearm used only for monitoring to check if there are skips on the record? If so, why do you guys buy an expensive tonearms? I use it a lot for exact heating and some realtime de-essing too And like PMST said you really want it for calibration: volumes, eq curve even if your using the m...

@drdub

Do you print on mat or glossy paper? The glossy ones look more "real", but are very easy to scratch imo.
I settled for foldovers in plastic covers because of the hassle.

Bit off topic, but hey

tragwag do you cut on 2 lathes at the same time? Same audio?

Overheating is very dangerous for your stylus, it blew one of mine out of the shank(?)

New stylus not much might be needed, maybe a bit to get rid of the static type sound
Older stylus there is a sweetspot with total silence

Thanks again, I need some time so I can ask the right questions. No ghosting, I'll be back!

For starters I guess what I'm after is "converting" an audio waveform to a displacement waveform (more a representation of) so I can use it in my normal audio environment, using my trusted analyzing tools etc. Is this possible or am I missing the point here?

@markrob I run a dynamic head, RIAA en correction in one EQ, this is fairly easy to seperate. Volume calibrated so I can work from here @markrob & @dmills thanks for enlighting me! Over the years my focus always was on getting out the audio I was putting in, but I really want to understand what's ha...

Let me study this

There are probably a few posts here and there dedicated to this, but maybe I don't know the right search terms I'm only talking about the mid component of the audio here I may be seeing it all wrong, but after the audio ends up on the cut according to RIAA specifications, what I see visually is not ...

Think we can safely move the Phonocut to the not-gonna-happen/(not intentional) _____ list

Get out while you still can

So you can just screw the black wheel off, not glued or anything?

Does anyone know how the black plastic wheel stays in place? Is it also threaded?

Any news??

Can't wait!

Assuming the reverse module is the same motor, how can it be 195 EUR?

Doe the Souri one also works using this rca female? Or does is replace the mainunit motor driving wise?

I did the same thing, so balanced cables for me

The boosts can get pretty crazy so beware!!

+20 dB so better have your mastering sorted

I run a SP10 myself with nice results. I didn't make any height adjustments. I had a custom mat made though. My SP10 mat wasn't close to some kind of flat. About weight. I think a SP10 can handle more weight than you'll ever need. So focus on your groove width/depth with a microscope and adjust acco...

I run SP-10 with VR and think it's great. Spend a few hours finetuning and was ready to go. Never going back...

I didn't raise it btw. Just put it under, no problem. Why would you need to do that?

Next update will be a solid mat, because the reverse SP-10 is not very flat here...

I got one of him more than a year ago.
Long history in sound but took me about a year to make really good cuts. You should really want this, because it will be extremely frustrating, expensive and time consuming, stop everything your doing besides cutting