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Original page Excerpt :" ...... Tech Note: If you've ever been in a traditional radio station with turntables - and I probably date myself here - you've seen a pair of heavy-duty, high-torque turntables in a gray steel console that weighs several hundred pounds. DJs can be clumsy in their hyperactive way, and the console has to be heavy enough to withstand a DJ colliding full-force against it without the phonograph jarring or skipping a groove. As a result, broadcast turntables, even as far back as the 1930s, were always mounted in consoles weighing hundreds of pounds. When audiophiles listen to turntables that were actually used for AM and FM radio broadcasts - Garrard 301 and 401, Thorens TD 124, various models of EMT, various Technics models - they were all intended for mounting in far heavier consoles than typical lightweight domestic TT bases.
The re-discovery of what appear to be massive TT bases is nothing more than using these turntables as they were originally meant to be used.
And - surprise, surprise - they sound really good, just as they did back in the days of quality FM broadcasting ..... "Lynn Olson, 2005
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Topic - Emt pic of the day - J.D. 15:28:31 04/13/07 (8)
- high mass - OMalley 04:59:53 04/15/07 (0)
- Re: high mass mounts - user510 20:07:25 04/13/07 (2)
- I have been a high mass advocate for years.... - tubesforever 07:11:06 04/14/07 (1)
- open letter to 'tubesforever' - J.D. 12:05:45 04/14/07 (0)
- interesting excerpt - dean man jim 16:28:01 04/13/07 (2)
- Something I heard in Portland Oregon got my attention real fast.... - tubesforever 07:26:39 04/14/07 (1)
- tapping - dean man jim 08:41:05 04/14/07 (0)
- That is cool. - anumber1 15:56:31 04/13/07 (0)