RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns

Posted by twystd (A) on August 31, 2015 at 21:22:56

In Reply to: RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns posted by John Elison on August 31, 2015 at 18:22:54:

Thanks for the input. Here's a breakdown of projected costs:
1. Baltic Birch free, left over from my brother's previous speaker project.
2. Rek-O-Kut $81.00 including shipping from ebay (stole that puppy).
3. Full Monty from Applied Fidelity $300.00
4. Cartridge $250.00
5. SUT $60.00 for the pair (caught an inventory close out sale from Mikey at Magnequest years ago).
6. Bugle 2 Kit $150.00 + $50.00 for parts (Takman resistors, Rey metal films for signal, and Rex carbon films for loads, and my fave Russian silver and mica mil surplus caps)
7. Tone arm $100.00 cobbled together from arrow shaft, salvaged headshell, golf ball, fishing line, silicone lubricant, etc. (should be able to do it for that)

That comes to about $1,000.00, leaves me about $200.00 for some slate, and wood veneer to dress up the plinth, maybe a little left over for a cart tweak.

Yeah, the cartridge is kind of an open question. It's not like I know the effective mass of the arm, and can match up a suitable cart. I'm going to have to find out how to calculate the effective mass of my arm, and how I might be able to design it for a selected cart. I'm sure there will be posts from me on how to calculate that among many other things.

BTW I may have lucked out on a free cart (see my post to valvesonly in this thread. My bud might have some carts and styluses that may be of interest to many on this forum too, time will tell. BTW, I just saw your post about the Jelco tonearm...interesting. Thanks for that info as well.

Here's a link to the WTL tone arm. thinking of a 12" version.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/analogue-source/226267-my-diy (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Intro and newbie plans/concerns - twystd 14:38:49 08/31/15 (14)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - MAS 13:59:06 09/01/15 (2)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - twystd 15:18:00 09/01/15 (1)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - MAS 06:19:30 09/05/15 (0)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - coffee-phil 12:56:17 09/01/15 (2)

Ping coffee-phil - twystd 18:08:29 09/01/15 (0)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - twystd 15:00:24 09/01/15 (0)

What's the "full monty" entail. . . - peteSF 23:39:23 08/31/15 (2)

RE: What's the "full monty" entail. . . - twystd 10:04:22 09/01/15 (0)

RE: What's the "full monty" entail. . . - David Smith 06:01:53 09/01/15 (0)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - John Elison 18:22:54 08/31/15 (1)

RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - twystd 21:22:56 08/31/15 (0)

Welcome to the plan - valvesonly 18:20:15 08/31/15 (2)

RE: Welcome to the plan - twystd 20:24:31 08/31/15 (1)

RE: Welcome to the plan - John Elison 20:45:18 08/31/15 (0)

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RE: Intro and newbie plans/concerns - twystd 21:22:56 08/31/15 (0)

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