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In Reply to: Apollo Wall Mounted turntable project - Success! posted by FezCo on April 11, 2007 at 11:08:20:
I was so proud; in amongst the 6 trillion or so pieces of lath behind the horse-hair plaster I found some actual boards in the wall that would hold the braces . I couldn't sneeze or even scrath my crotch without sending the stylus on a journey across a record and walking lightly was not something a 250 lb. man could do (well, maybe just 230 back then).I attached the shelf board to the braces, put my Thorens on the shelf after giving it the "can I do a pull-up" test, connected up the wires, placed a record on the platter, lifted the tone-arm and placed the stylus upon the record, and immediately heard AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Feedback the likes of which no one has ever heard and if so, ever recovered from! Nearly destroyed the cells of my brain; I could hear those little brain cells popping in my head! Almost loud enough to crack the double brick walls between my side and the other side of the duplex I lived in.
Awakened the wee child lying in his crib upstairs and he began wailing, my wife began wailing, I was wailing as I tried to turn off the Marantz integrated and silence the racket! It was scary as hell for a brand new audio enthusiast!
I called the friend that had infected me with audioitis, the one who had sold me his gear. He asked me if I had used the rubber feet that came with the Thorens or tried the spikes he'd given me. I had used the rubber feet for awhile, but the spikes had alleviated some of the foot-fall problems I had, so they were on the table when I sat it upon the wall shelf. A few weeks before, I'd been told to put a quarter on the headshell by the little old lady that ran the record store in town because a record I'd bought from her skipped (I didn't do what she'd suggested), so when Craig told me to put quarters under the spikes I was a bit hesitant...but it worked!
I was happy, my kid was happy, my wife was happy, and most of all, my Thorens was happy!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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Follow Ups
- I'm happy it was a success, my first try wasn't! - Muzikmike 12:43:55 04/11/07 (1)
- Hopefully those were silver quarters Mike! ;-) - tubesforever 15:39:11 04/11/07 (0)
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