Turntable question

[Clint Eastwood]

I had a quad 8 track deck in my first car, a 66 Mustang. It was an under dash unit that had a slide plate mounted on it. When you left the car in unsafe situations you slid out the whole unit and put it in the trunk.

That old deck is the reason i'm here now. It provided some of the best musical experiences of my life. Quad actually died out before I got rid of the car.

Memories.... light the corners of my mind....[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;HJNrKHv50X8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNrKHv50X8[/video]

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Oh its a car...

:steering:

Well - it's a "car" in the sense that Crocodile Dundee had a "knife."

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

View attachment 23577

Hee! Looks like I'm about 3 hrs. away from that intersection.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

At least it was an accident....mine were hardly accidents.

Well, hell, those old metal garbage cans were just asking for it - they made a hellacious godawful noise when you bashed into them at 3 AM! The new plastic ones are such a letdown.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Agents of the Law? Luckless pedestrians..?

Thanks Fred! The Royal Scam has been placed in the afternoon queue. :music

-- Jim

 

[GOS]

wow! I was just at that stop sign about 30 minutes ago.....LOL! Had to make a trip to my pappy's to put up x-mas tree for him.[/Q

hehe...I'm keeping track of you from Florida

Well yeah. Small town out in the middle of nowhere.....if you found some pics, then chances are I was just there. lmao

 

[fredblue]

Thanks Fred! The Royal Scam has been placed in the afternoon queue. :music

-- Jim

You're welcome

Just a shame The Royal Scam never made it to the Quad mixing queue... (LOVE that album..).. and worse still supposedly its another Steely Dan album that couldn't be remixed to 5.1 anytime soon due to more missing multi's..

 

[Doug G.]

As we spea...er...write, I am listening to Rush's LP "Grace Under Pressure" on my 1977 BIC model 1000 TT, Empire 2000 E/III cartridge, through a Sony SQD-2050 SQ decoder, Heathkit -29 series amplifiers (one for each speaker pair) and four Advent stacks and it's fabulous!

See GOS, you HAVE to do it!

Doug

 

[GOS]

And by the way - I didn't tell my wife yet that I ordered a table....

 

[Clint Eastwood]

And by the way - I didn't tell my wife yet that I ordered a table....

No need to bog her down with details....you are being a good husband

 

[GOS]

No need to bog her down with details....you are being a good husband

hahaha - yeah. Spare her the details....

 

[fredblue]

hahaha - yeah. Spare her the details....

She'll know.. They always know...

Got it! Hide the new turntable!

Or blindfold her when she gets home, take her to the bedroom, handcuff her to the bed and.. then get your TEAC out!

(Err.. well I'll be off.. it's been a long day.. Goodnight and Good Luck Gene! Goodnight guys! :upthumb

 

[GOS]

Night Adam.....you crack me up...

 

[Clint Eastwood]

She'll know.. They always know...

Got it! Hide the new turntable!

Or blindfold her when she gets home, take her to the bedroom, handcuff her to the bed and.. then get your TEAC out!(Err.. well I'll be off.. it's been a long day.. Goodnight and Good Luck Gene! Goodnight guys! :upthumb

Wait a minute...blindfold her...take her to the bedroom...handcuff her..and then get your what out?...oh boy...

 

[LuvMyQuad]

All these years I thought it was, "Memories, like the corners of my mind..."

I be damned. I learn somethin new ever damn day.

Then again, I never understood half the words to "Stairway to Heaven" until I heard Tiny Tim sing it, so I got kind of a problem with song lyrics.

Wow. Tiny Tim covered "Stairway to Heaven"? I guess we all learn something every day. You were probably in the group who thought it was "s'cuse me while I kiss this guy" from Hendrix and "there's a bathroom on the right" from CCR.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

Wow. Tiny Tim covered "Stairway to Heaven"?

He did indeed. (With the great Brave Combo.)

[EDIT] With that said, here is a pretty damn good live cover of that song. (Old news by now, but what the hell.)

 

[LuvMyQuad]

He did indeed. (With the great Brave Combo.)

[EDIT] With that said, here is a pretty damn good live cover of that song. (Old news by now, but what the hell.)

He DOES enunciate well. Im just glad I never heard that before. I hope I never do again.

 

[Franklin]

Funny you should mention that... I still have all my old vinyl (just stereo, no quad), and I've been thinking about it lately. I've even got nice turntable that actually works! I should probably use it or sell it, not just let it go to waste. Trouble is, my audio setup is so digital these days it would take some head-scratching just to connect a turntable to it. Hmm...

Pre-amp that converts to digital with USB out?

 

[MidiMagic]

I made a solution that works with most good turntables:

I built a platform with heavy (3/4") wood slightly larger than the turntable's base. I put inch-thick rubber feet on the bottom about 2 inches in from the edge. Then I put rubber feet on the bottom of the turntable base. Note that it does not work very well with the plastic bases Garrard and BSR used. It must have a wood or metal base.

Then I put a small amount of foam rubber in the floating springs of the turntable to damp out vibrations. You could stomp on the wood floor and it would not bother the turntable.

The main problem with a subwoofer and a turntable is acoustic feedback (the speaker shaking the record or pickup). As long as the speaker does not shake the arm itself, the above method works.

Another cure is to place a large heavy baffle between the subwoofer and the turntable.

 

[GOS]

wow! Much sooner than I thought.... :banana: