The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Well, this is interesting. It's not the first time I read you are not heating the blanks. I also saw other people saying it these days. It is little bit confusing after all that people saying you need to heat it in the past. So why there is instructions that you should heat them? Is it because of e...

FWIW I run 2 x 3B-ST ... I can't speak for the earlier models apart from them coming up for sale very cheap sometimes, so I can only assume they are not so great. Generally Bryston amps are rock-solid work horses with the best warrantees in the business. They often come up second hand, still under w...

I guess I always assumed that the elecricity would take the path of least resistance... and that the minimal surface contact between windings of the same wire would ultimately be less conductive than the full gauge of the wire itself. After all, the wire is already kind of short circuiting, so in or...

Here is one I made earlier... 6 or 7 turns on that one, but you get the idea: https://www.instagram.com/dubstudio/p/CEb48Z1BhRS

Not exactly. OK so the method I use is as follows: 1) cut off a couple of inches of wire (length = 2 x distance of stylus from binding posts, plus 8 x windings, plus a little spare at each end to hold on to) 2) mount the stylus in the head 3) tie one end of the wire to a binding post, leave a littl...

i would listen to the guy who designed and make/made the Caruso heads ;) Of course, I am not disputing anything Flo says, but I think its important to draw the distinction between using pink noise to help quantify and verify any adjustments you make and using pink noise to correct a cutting head to...

What’s the best way to further correct the carusos frequency response? It’s close but needs some correction. Is it best to run white noise and auto correct with a eq matching plugin both channels at the same time? Maybe one channel at a time? Maybe not using a matching eq but just manually add more...

I would think a single impulse measurement would have a very low S/N ratio. If you average many impulses you can improve the S/N , but that's not so easy to do. I guess if you window out the single impulse to be very short in duration, you would effectively filter out all of the low frequency noise...

I would go very slow.cut some stuff you know and where you have the master and a reference on vinyl. listen on a decent system you know.compare and and do slight adjustments.. the fab filter .pink noise is the wrong way to go. Technically yes .but soundwise very bad idea… You don’t have to dream. C...

Can you record the noise and post it so I can hear it?

When testing real-world response, I tend to record an impulse (one sample) and measure the response with EQ matching... that way you don't get all the surface noise and TT rumble skewing the result.

If it's the stock 1200 turntable, I'd guess it's a torque issue. I have never noticed torque creating stability issues (other than wow and flutter) so I would be surprised if that's the cause. In any case, you need to do the resistor mod to get good results with a Technics 1200 / 1210 so I would lo...

Audio is also ok because it happens even when I cut silent groove. Ok this is an important bit of information which helps to narrow down the list of potential causes.. it's definitely mechanical. Temperature should be probably ok, I cut around 40-42 celsius of disk temperature. This could be the ca...

Hm, its quite common for that to happen, and it shouldn't damage the clutch. It's more likely to be an issue with the lead screw itself. When you wind it back, the screw has to lock back onto the nut, so perhaps its cross threaded, or there is some grit / swarf stuck in there. I would try running it...

Rochester wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:03 pm

Does anyone have advice / instructions on the dis assembly of the overhead motor / worm drive for the T560? I'm having clutch issues and wondering whether to change the clutch bearing or just tighten the screw tighter. TIA.

What issues are you having?

BTW the above answer covers all the possible causes of low frequency skipping that I can think of at the time of writing... but looking at the picture it looks like its mainly a disc temperature issue.

This could be chatter, “humping”, subsonic frequencies, too much stereo width.. the list goes on. Without seeing the lathe set up, inspecting the disc, and hearing the audio, it's hard to say. But here are some pointers: When the stylus hits a warp in the disc, like a car hitting a hump in the road,...

boryo wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:05 am

I was using sp15 and was cutting heavy boom bap hip-hop without any issues, it worked perfectly. Switched to sp10mk2 just because I had good deal on it.

Thanks for the info How deep were you cutting?

Interesting... strobe sdturggling how in what sense? It's not 100% solid. It moves a tiny bit back and forth (by a tiny margin ), but the rotation of the platter is stable as hell according to the RPM app (wow and flutter values are also low)... This could be my SP too. I have a recapped BBC versio...

this seems to be obsessing with what lacquers are called...this paper might have some interest back in the 70's ,but I don't think now... Yes the discussion got derailed, and it became about semantics instead of content, but that doesn't mean the paper itself is at fault. As with a lot of content o...