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In Reply to: Uh, Alberto, poster said "no fuss" setup. Hardly the case posted by HenryH on July 14, 2006 at 07:32:12:
Right you are Henry. My bad.But ... I can't help it. For me: NO FUSS == NO FUN.
With vinyl you'll have to deal with some fuss at some point: stylus and record cleaning, set-up, stylus replacement, etc.
If I had $6K and wanted no fuss I'd probably buy a top of the line CD player :-).
Alberto
Follow Ups:
I'd be DIYing my brains out as we speak. Alas, one-handed DIYing is not what it's cracked up to be.
HenryA 12-gauge shotgun is the ultimate arbiter of disputes - G. Gordon Liddy
Henry, just a word to relay that the Diy biz isn't all it's cracked up to be here at Va...Tonight I was driving myself berserk moving parts between my two Garrard 301's and trying to avoid losing it (my nut) when a 'circlip' went flying across the room every 15 minutes and one motor wants to whisper 'FFT, FFT, .... FFt!' while the other one has spring mounts that want to follow the Circlips on their circumnavigation of the apartment but I can't afford to stop so I scribble on a post-it "circlip" so I can continue without forgetting which motor wires go to the switch and which go to the 220v straps and take my time in the morning to search for the tiny circlips, but the thing is that the lamp I've got on the dining room table to illuminate all of this has got a dodgy switch so each time the unfortunate impact of mis-measured adjustment-force sends a circlip or spring flying ................ the light goes out .
... Course I've been meaning to fix that, simple really, but that would mean forgetting which table had the better eddy-current brake --or not--- and that can be problematic cause they're actually a pretty strong magnet which end up capturing some of the springs and washers and circlips and ephemera that have been flying around, but they hide them in the least obvious place-- right inside the turntable you're working on , and if my eyeglasses were within reach maybe I'd have the vaguest notion but the light keeps blinking, and .........
Well, you get the picture. Diying is a great thing,,,
ONCE YOU'RE DONE WITH IT AND BRAGGING ABOUT HOW EASY IT WAS.
J.
...is the one thing an avid DIY person needs have to be able to fully enjoy the process of the work...It took me a long time of scratching up my Wife's dinning room tables or freezing in the garage to come to that realization though.
I now have a workshop with lots of flat surfaces at a proper working height, LOTS of LIGHT and fully equipped with test instruments and gear. I no longer have to go hunting for cir-clips in shag (grin!).
--
Al GTravelin' light; It's the only way to fly - J.J. Cale
Hey, where's the challenge in that ?That would be way too easy.
J.
"Please take my advice..."and in another song he gives this gem: "A man needs a maid."
There's your second hand. '-)
Tom
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