The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Check continuity of rt chan feedback contacts L and P on the head

re inventing the wheel for the digital age...

JVC stopped because CD's started to happen and there were hellish problems with the heater wires. Diamond is a poor conductor of heat and we had to use 0.7 amp minimum to get a quiet cut, Over time the wires weakened and split. The most time we ever got was 35 hours before this happened. Probably sh...

I was at RCA and back in the day we used a couple of them. I recall someone saying that, can't remember who.

Your probably right, just hearsay I guess...............

Apparently JVC used a laser to shape the burnishing facets

Does anybody have one of these for sale by any chance? Thanks for looking!

Aaaah the good ole days...Ed Schwartz's Micropoint!

So, a third manufacturer of lacquers in Italy. Great news! Now if only someone would try their hand at making pure corundum cutting styli,that would be brilliant!

There's a bit of a monopoly both with blanks and styli at the moment.......

The industry at large adopted digital, mostly PCM 1630, from the late 80's. See Aussie0zborn's excellent post. All the engineers at the studio I worked in loved it. As I remember, it solved more problems than it created, until the 'loudness war' reared it's ugly head. This probably accounts for the ...

acetone/mek 50/50 cotton bud, no problem!

Well, if you can even fit it on your turntable and get it to lie flat, it sounds virtually identical to the finished pressing. In the old days, this was played back,checked and any ticks and pops were noted. Being nickel, it will wear out your stylus pretty quickly, so styli for this purpose were re...

Mostly a VMS 80 cut at McClear Place with Sony PCM 1630.

Try turning off the amps for a few hours, see if it still does it....

Using MDC 14's and Transco 320's here. I've noticed the last couple of styli have cleaned up after about 2-3 hours. They are quiet, sound good and last about 40 hours with little facet wear. I don't wear them in with no heat though. If it works for you however................ Use Apollo 12in masters...

Well George, let me begin by saying that we send out hundreds of lacquers to all the UK and European pressing plants. I have never had any serious problem with any of them. Sure, occasionally one will tell you that it was scratched or damaged in some way when received,it's impossible to tell how it ...

Any cutters here had an 'experience' when sending lacquers for processing to GZ?

The current batch of MDC's look fine with Transco styli. Very quiet with smooth walls. MDC's are softer than transco lacs and seem to use a different dye in the formulation. I recently got 30 hrs on a 320 using a mixture of mdc's and t'co's (about 70/30%) I know they are difficult to source in the U...

My VMS 80 is called 'Ostava' It came from somewhere in Eastern Europe where they like to give trucks, locomotives and lathes (apparently) girls names.

Cast your minds back folks!

Haha...We're looking for a VMS 70 or 66 complete with a SX74 and 74B rack. Anyone out there know of any for sale? Thanks for reading!