Mine is an LP12 , Ittok , Asaka . Needs a serious work over though when ready to get it out of the loft .
Mine was called a record player. You carefully put the.......stylus on the record, took it off again to remove the fluff and then tried to pick the track you wanted. Then danced and sang around your bedroom. Then got told to turn it down.
Believe you me TSS , it has been a LONG road . over a 100 lp's etc in a real quality record cabinet Kept at my parents for YEARS . within 9 months I WILL be listening to LP's ( and the occasional 45 ) Again . Honestly , I cannot wait . Even Toby will get ignored for the first day . No he wont .
I prefer to think of them as wonderful pieces of engineering, but I certainly understand your view. I once thought of taking apart an Ortofon MC10 cartridge I have where the cantilever was broken [a kitten jumped on the turntable as a record was playing - I nearly had a fit]. And I found I just couldn't bring myself to break it completely. As it stands at the moment, it could still be refurbished.
Point taken , but I think we both agree , when you have the technical stuff + structural stuff , that equals this ( as one example of MANY ) http://www.analogueseduction.net/all-cartridges/koetsu-the-signature-moving-coil-cartridge.html A wonderful combination of Engineering & Art ( craftsman skills etc ) .
Have you actually heard a Koetsu.? It was about 1989 and at Hampshire Audio I had about half a dozen cartridges in a couple of Ittoks. I thought the Koetsu sounded a little thin, though silky and analytical, compared to the almost equally analytical Audio Technica OC9 [which I think you can still buy] and it lost out to the thunder and lightning that was the Linn Troika. I think the Koetsu was about £2,000, compared to £250+ for the Audio Technica, and £649 [I'll never forget that price I paid] for the Troika. For me, the Troika was stonking value. It's no wonder that these days very second hand ones, in need of re-tipping, sell for more than they cost new back then.
Ooh, that Izzy Bizu new single is very catchy. So catchy that I think one more listen and I'll have got over it. Very nice on Graham Norton's show. Oh, and I've never seen Trainspotting, the original. Don't quite know why. Just never got around to it.
