The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

hello caruso head was designed in 2009/2010 with optical feedback. test where very promissing. the torque tube had reflectors that took the movment directly close to the stylus. way better than far away... main reason was the idea, that the users can quickly swap a burned drivecoil. would be so easy...

hello i have a whole box of spare VG66 modules. i prefer to sell the whole lot. it was already posted and someone wanted to buy.but money never came.... so the first one who manages to transfer the money will get them. if i dont sell i probabbly will recycle the cooling radators of the amp power sup...

i think you can put whatever blank you want. just not sure if they fit an if you have best results. i guess phonocut will have not an open ear if you send in a broken stylus because of using wrong blanks. i am sure you will get always new styli , repair from phonocut. but not for free. its not the s...

still looking for one.
in case you hvae one i think you can make a nice trade with something you can really use .

thanks.

yes the MAG tape recorders great stuff. at least heavy and big. there is one in the museum in my town. . also very ncie turntables.... even planes.. haha all the audio stuff they produced in a short period of time.mainly short before and during WWII. they go the money pushed in to make independant a...

hello Martin. welcome to the "motosacoche" club. a beautyfull lathe.made my a great company which is still very famous fro their motorbikes and even more for their standalone motors you still can find on many swiss farms. great news. this is then about nr.6 still survived so far.approx 3-4 in a 40km...

maybe
better buy a caruso pcb and populate just the encoder part....
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i can ship in a letter and you can paypal the money.

super easy. and if you are not familar with opamp dual supoly... google & youtube is your friend.

looking forward to the results. concerning the speed. not sure when this 45 RPM audiophile Super Sonic series LPs came out. but i guess not before the 80ies. also i could not find any infos. who produced that stuff. but the chance is very high that it was cut on a vms80 /vms82 or on one off the vms7...

look forward not backward. spinnig records backwards you only hear the dark messages... life is too short for bad cutterheads, records, coffee.. a waste of time & energy. there are many records out whre you can read"the fairchild 641 sterephonic disc mastering system was used...." all i have heard w...

hello. the head is a a pure & nice museum item. unless a collector is hunting for it its worthless. in a practical way. yes i know: it says fairchild. but not useable. i know at least one amp system that changed hands for way too big money (because of the fairchild tag) . nice & very powerful amps. ...

caruso_built2020.tif holy shit. i hope it found a good home ... this one was still one of the first ones produced. but good to hear. there is a new batch coming right now. caruso_built2020.tif i was too busy to build more than 1-2 per month but there is someone trained to build them and we fill up ...

hello i will answer this question in a more general matter, as i receive like 2-3 requests for dmm conversion every day at the moment. [attachment=0]am44_dmm_cut.jpg[/attachment] conversion of a neumann lacquer lathe to dmm: - stronger motor. if you have a technics SP02 already a good start. a lyrec...

hello all engines on full speed. yes phonocut was at NAMM show currently a couple of more prototypes and ramping up the mass production. lots of testing, refinements. not sure if you know what it means to produce around 500 pcs... all energy to have them produced as promissed. also there is no addit...

a caruso head is way better than any westrex head i ever came across the last 20 years. and even with westrex 3C (technically speaking a horrible head) a lot of award winning records where made. westrex has normally 2 additional resonances in the audio range. caruso has one. if you do an open loop m...

Regarding blanks, warranty, etc as described below. Be careful of this - it is not legal in the US. The printer companies (HP, Canon, etc) tried this, and it was ruled not legal. Now, using 3rd party ink for printers does not invalidate warranty. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/laws...

You can hear that there is some pitch flutter on the Phonocut version noticeable on the Rhodes chords. To me it sounds like the motor / drive on the turntable might be struggling? I understand that this is a prototype but still the comparison was posted without any explanation so one has to assume ...

For sure I will put necessary infos online whenever I see an end... But hey lets hope first for getting it started Just for your info I still support Kingston dubplate Cutter after 20 years And even worse Neumann and scully lathes sometimes 50-60 year old.most of important spare Parts made on my cos...

Well.not decided yet what happens if you hack the lathe.maybe I put in a small plugin that convert all your nice music to most ugly Austria folk music. Or as an option the picture of a wellknown german king of proprietary stli&disks.. just another few lines of code... For sure the machine will know ...

I saw this in action. It works great and sounds very good (current prototype has a Caruso).. no caruso inside. its more like a dialba head (sc-99 follow up) but in a cartridge design. there was question from FelaBorbone what kind of transducer as well: so just a very state of the art moving coil fe...

hello maybe i can give you some more infos. answers to the not asked questios as some seem to have questions, but i can't read them. all info we think is important is on the official website. all other not important or it will show up later. most important. this is not a neumann for 1k but its real....