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My new AR clone

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Posted on November 18, 2020 at 17:09:55
Pivo
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 Haven't posted for ages but wanted to share my new project!

On the right is my 'original' AR The Turntable... But with all the moving parts replaced. Merrill PolyChassis/ platter and motor. Rega/Mitchell arm.

In front is my newly built plinth with all the original AR parts. Spinning Starker Bach Cello and its sounding nice.









 

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RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 18, 2020 at 17:18:56
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 Well done! Very nice.

 

Very beautiful work - of course, I'm hoping that. . . , posted on November 18, 2020 at 17:24:05
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 . . . Tom Fine's remastering of those Starker Cello Suites will eventually be available via hi-rez digital too. ;-)

 

RE: Very beautiful work - of course, I'm hoping that. . . , posted on November 18, 2020 at 17:42:04
Pivo
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 For Digital I go with the later recording.




 

Beautiful workmanship!, posted on November 18, 2020 at 18:06:01
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 They both look very nice. You did an excellent job on the new plinth. How do they compare in sound quality?

Good luck,
John Elison

 

RE: Beautiful workmanship!, posted on November 18, 2020 at 18:34:59
Pivo
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 That will take a few days. Or months. But what else am I doing? :)

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 18, 2020 at 18:43:57
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 Nice! Do my eyes deceive me or is that a Mercury Living Presence pressing or not? :-)

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 18, 2020 at 19:11:05
B. Scarpia
 Love the new base. The dado position makes it so well balanced visually. Set on a spacer or actual dado? Either way, congratulations.

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 18, 2020 at 22:44:11
Logan
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 The photos fail to reveal what is being used as a platter mat. A few years ago I was preparing my 24-year-old AR for sale, having acquired an admirable Michell Gyro SE as the replacement. I ditched the AR felt mat and installed a Herbies Way Excellent II mat.

This elevated the performance of the AR to such an extent that I wondered why I had bothered to outlay so much money on the Gyro.

I cleared my conscience when I added the Michell HR power supply unit, which took the Gyro out of this world. But I could have lived with the AR plus Herbies.

 

Not to mention the even later recording on RCA/BMG, posted on November 19, 2020 at 00:50:16
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Regarding the Sefel recordings: although I have a few other Sefel recordings, I never did acquire those Starker Bach Suites on that label and have never heard them. I have the EMI recordings and the Mercuries - that's it. (Of course, the SACD of the Mercury recordings preserves the discrete three channels.)

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 19, 2020 at 04:35:46
Pivo
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 No not an original:) Speakers Corner.

 

Question on the mat, posted on November 19, 2020 at 07:07:46
Story
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 I'm in a winter environment with plenty of static - how is the Herbies with this?



 

Felt mat?, posted on November 19, 2020 at 09:36:54
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 Was any AR model available with a felt mat? Or was that pirated from a Linn?

I'm only familiar with the AR-XA and all of those I've seen had foam mats.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho

 

Very good. I notice no clinging or static discharge with the herbies mat on my SL-1500C. /nt\, posted on November 19, 2020 at 11:49:07
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Opus 33 1/3

 

Ok many thanks!, posted on November 19, 2020 at 12:49:12
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Sweet ! ..., posted on November 19, 2020 at 12:55:48
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 I like the looks of yours better.

Well done !

Dean.




reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.


 

Ditto. nt, posted on November 19, 2020 at 14:05:48
Rick W
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Verah nizzze., posted on November 19, 2020 at 14:09:26
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 I have an old XA and lots of spare parts. Wouldn't be hard to build one from what I've got here.



The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 19, 2020 at 14:14:08
rwiley
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 Nice work!

 

RE: Felt mat?, posted on November 19, 2020 at 14:44:13
Pivo
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 "The AR Turntable" and other 80's models came with felt.

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 19, 2020 at 14:50:24
Pivo
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 Thanks! Used a router to cut the setback on the flat top, then glued it to the bottom.

 

RE: I unwisely tried to stretch this project into my pre-op pass the drugs I can't stand the farging pain phase, posted on November 19, 2020 at 16:38:14
B. Scarpia
 One of these is not like the others. Can you tell which one? ;-)





Needless to say, in a couple of weeks, when only Tylenol will be needed, there's a do-over coming.

 

RE: My new AR clone, posted on November 19, 2020 at 19:35:31
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 Looks nicer than the original!

Happy listening!

 

The angle join on the top one is not as nest as the others. )MT(, posted on November 20, 2020 at 06:22:35
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Later Gator,
Dave
Find more about Weather in Chester, SC

 

RE: That's why god created the #4 Smoothing Plane with cambered blade ;-), posted on November 20, 2020 at 06:36:23
B. Scarpia
 It's best not to see how the sausage is made.

I wouldn't trust anyone else to follow the grain and plane around the top but you're welcome to come sand it after I teach you to use a hard sanding block.









 

I get a little bit of static cling, but the Herbie's is heavy enough that it doesn't matter. nt, posted on November 20, 2020 at 14:57:24
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 nt



The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

"One of these is not like the others. Can you tell which one?" I was referring to that statement in your..., posted on November 20, 2020 at 16:37:53
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 ...post. BTW, please substitute "neat" for "nest" in the title of my response!! :>}
And I agree about sausage; I think that it was Bismark that said that and included laws in his pronouncement.

Later Gator,
Dave
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RE: That's why god created the #4 Smoothing Plane with cambered blade ;-), posted on November 20, 2020 at 16:57:17
B. Scarpia
 And I was referring to one of the four decorative dadoes, the last one I milled that day after carefully measuring then mis-reading the rule ;)

 

My AR-XA came with a foam mat. , posted on November 20, 2020 at 21:48:32
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nt

 

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