On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 13:27 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 03:16:38PM +0200, Vytautas Jancauskas wrote: > > > On a well-designed system, the resonance frequency should > > > be below the audio range, but still high enough to enable > > > the arm to follow any warping of the disk. > > > > Not everyone has a well-designed system. You have to mix for what most > > of the people who will buy the recording use. > > If that matters it includes using conservative levels instead > of going for maximum loudness. +1 and btw. I own a record player that is good enough and you likely will get it at Ebay for 80,-€, I remove the full automatic crap thingy, since this is what could break after some years of intensive usage and now I've got a cheap thingy not as good as a MkII, because if you stop my record player, the ramp-up time is a little bit longer, but good enough for listening. If you aren't DJing it doesn't matter and btw. using a slipmat you don't need to stop a record player, so there would be no ramp-up time and you even could use such an elCheapo record player as mine for DJing. Since my old needle is broken since several years ago, I use an disgusting Audio-Technica cartridge, because I can't pay for a needle that's needed for my good cartridge. A good cartridge or a needle only for such a cartridge is very, very expensive. But a CD player, DAT recorder of high quality is expensive too. IOW even today a good record player with an odd, but still usable cartridge, still isn't more expensive as digital consumer gear. If the needle should jump out of the groove, consider to remove the counterweight and hot-glue a coin to the cartridge ;). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
