On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:44:23 +0100, "Geoff Mackenzie"
wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Patrick James wrote:
Hi

I hope that it is fine for me to mention that I have put my
Transcriptor Hydraulic Reference turntable for sale at eBay.

Here is a link to it:

http://is.gd/35C9Q

Just in case the link goes wonky for some reason here is the item
number: 260474245281


Normal listening will now resume...

A prime example of design over engineering. Ideal coffee table exhibit.
Just don't try and use it.

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*I'm really easy to get along with once people learn to worship me

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Wasn't it originally designed as a film prop ? - A Clockwork Orange, I
think, although it may have been 2001 A Space Odysee. Fortunately they got
it right with the Gyrodek.

Geoff MacK


Any deck that supports the record on six points can never be described
as "right". It is a ridiculous thing to do. The record must sag
between the points and cause a rhythmic 3.3Hz vertical thump through
the stylus, severely compromising headroom in the preamp.

The best a turntable can do, of course, is not make things any worse -
they can never be great.

And I thought that the hydraulic reference was mid-tide at Newlyn.

d