tonight on ARTE: Vinylmania

[andybee]

tonight on european arte tv:

vinylmania, by paolo campana (italy 2010, 75min)

http://www.vinylmaniafilm.com/

[flozki]

yooo andybee..
thanks a lot for the hint...
nice documentation.

just a little frightening. all these 20'000 plus super dupper rarest record collectors listening with a damn ortofon concorde.what a shame.
during the whole movie. almost only that shit. that hurts....haha.

exception. the karminsky experience... some of my heros... they know the good stuff...

[subkontrabob]

Hi flo,

can you please tell me more about the problems with the Ortofon Concorde? I've seen several of your posts about this subject.

As a long-time Ortofon user, I'm worried....... I mean I don't have any crazy rare records, but still, the possibility of damaging my records is discomforting.

What cartridges would you recommend for normal playback, and which ones for DJing?

Do you have seperate setups for DJing VS normal playback?

best regards,

Robert

[andybee]

Hi Sub!
I am down with flo, concerning the ortofon concorde nightclub...
this needle is very hard mounted, and yes, it destroys records!
I have seen some fresh, warm records out of the press, they
look very shiny, after playback with nightclub, not shiny any more,
maybe not a big problem, but the sound is also not good.
you can see it also at the output voltage, low voltage is mostly
a hard sitting playback needle...
Ortofon build also good needles, for example the yellow nightclub
is not that bad, but the original silver nightclub: NO!

[d]

that is really a shame. I have found that a lot of listeners really use concords night club. But why???? They are not like dj's or smth... but they use it... maybe they get it when they buy technivs 1210 or similar model.

What I remember that testes was done with concorde on laquers. With normal hifi cartridge listening for 100 times was the end for laquer and with concorde 20 times or so.... I think that says everything...

[subkontrabob]

To avoid threadjacking, I'll open a Ortofon Concorde thread in the playback forum.....

I can't watch vinylmania on ARTE+7, unfortunately it doesn't work......

[andybee]

yes, back to the topic, here is a digital copy to look at:

http://www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de/blogg/?p=30843

(german language)

[subkontrabob]

andy,

thank you for the kind effort, but this is just the ARTE player embedded to another page - still doesn't work for me.

But I'll pick up the DVD anyway.......

(there is going to be a DVD, right?)

regards,

bob

[subkontrabob]

The Vinylmania documentary is available on Youtube

German:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oGf8Da8TX0

French:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmfFoZOZQU

Enjoy!