Record player with replacement needles & manual RPM settings

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TL7
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Record player with replacement needles & manual RPM settings

Post: # 48958Unread post TL7
Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:51 pm

Hello.

Which record player has the ability to set RPMs manually, and an easily replaceable needle?

Quality is not that important, but would not be bad.

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Re: Record player with replacement needles & manual RPM sett

Post: # 49040Unread post diamone
Sun Jan 21, 2018 2:28 pm

Lenco (Bogen) L-75
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0dakqOtxU

Speed lever has indentations for the major speeds - otherwise it's a complete sweep from 4 RPM all the way to 105. It's also driven vertically meaning - no idler tire rumble.

So if you got one in addition to playing what you need to at the right off-speed in order to transfer (e.g. old home records from the 40s) you could post a 12 hour video on YouTube playing Jack White's 3 RPM record (actually 4-1/6 RPM having been quadruple mastered at 16).

You could also play the gag records people cut at 105 RPM (what you get when your 33 is set to 45 and you switch the lathe speed to 78) that they sell at the swapmeet as ``art'' and are able to steer clear of the copyright police because ``no ``conventional'' person could play them'' which is how everybody else gets away with cutting and releasing copyrighted material at 78 or 66 or 24 or 16 or.....

Besides that you could make a little turntable to set any number of doll and toy records on and be able to play that as well since most of them run 90 or 105. You'd be SOL to for the Home Built Mini Record Player though (can't find the YouTube video right now) bec the records for those are 156 - half-speed-mastered at 78.

For carts - apart from LP and 78 (0.7 and 3.0 mil) you will have to send out (expensive) to get them custom built anyway so pick the one you like that sounds the best to your ears and go to town.

Instead of changing styli and risking being bent or broken during removal/installation - most guys have several of the specialty headshells and the styli they need marked on the front.

If you have more money than you know what to do with you can buy an ELPJ laser turntable that tracks everything regardless of groove size. They make custom versions one at a time ($25K) that go all the way up to 55CM discs and platter speeds that go from zero to 160.

The LOC has five in their transfer lab - two normal ($10K) two huge and one mini ($7K) (8-inch and under) with a depression in the center to place e.g. the doll record platter on for discs with very small or nonexistent center holes.

Otherwise - for marginal-at-best quality - any school Music Dance and Theatre department e/g Newcomb or Audiotronics or Californe etc w the varispeed built in if you only need +/- several percent (<15 say).
2 Kinds of Men/Records: Low Noise & Wide Range. LN is mod. fidelity, cheap, & easy. WR is High Fidelity & Abrasive to its' Environment. Remember that when you encounter a Grumpy Engineer. (:-D)

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