AndreG. Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 hour ago, MicroMara said: There is a small scandinavian TT Manufacturer called " Bergmann " Audio. Bergmann aims to develop air-bearing turntables and air-bearing tangential tone arms with the least amount of parts. I know it's surely a superb machine (must be for the $$$), but it looks too much like an industrial robot to me... I like my wooden plinths and metal arms and tables... It's just me rambelin´... 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 32 minutes ago, AndreG. said: I know it's surely a superb machine (must be for the $$$), but it looks too much like an industrial robot to me... I like my wooden plinths and metal arms and tables... It's just me rambelin´... No.. it looks that way to me too. but with a tangential tonearm it is awesome! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreG. Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Haven't had the chance to hear a tangential yet... haven't heard how good my TTs are at their best yet, to tell the truth. 😄 I' m a little slow at getting things done right now... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1291 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 IF I hit the lottery I'll put a couple on my list. Everyone in here gets a turntable! Beats getting a toaster! 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 On 12/28/2021 at 10:47 PM, MeloManiac said: Big paradigm shift here... Never realised Lola was about trans gender... Now I'm going to take a good listen to Clapton's Layla too... You never know what surprise is hidden in those lyrics. You do know that Layla is a love song to George Harrison's wife Patty Boyd, don't you? George wasn't too impressed. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1291 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 There's a back story on all of that according to EC. Then there is also another story about his current wife, which I know is crap. It would be a short novel for me to write and no one would believe it so there's that. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroMara Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 20 minutes ago, Dave1291 said: IF I hit the lottery I'll put a couple on my list. Everyone in here gets a turntable! Beats getting a toaster! Thanks Dave , Im happy with mine , but a third tonearm would be nice 😂 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreG. Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, MicroMara said: Thanks Dave , Im happy with mine , but a third tonearm would be nice 😂 Didn' t You yourself say you wouldn' t need a third? 😇 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1291 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 It's just George @AndreG.. He'll have a third arm before he's done. Not a doubt in my mind. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicroMara Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Dave1291 said: It's just George @AndreG.. He'll have a third arm before he's done. Not a doubt in my mind. Well friends ...a third arm will make it complicated to put a record on the TT 🤣 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Full Range Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 hour ago, Dave1291 said: There's a back story on all of that according to EC. Then there is also another story about his current wife, which I know is crap. It would be a short novel for me to write and no one would believe it so there's that. I would buy that novel to read Write the blasted thing 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeloManiac Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 11 hours ago, MicroMara said: There is a small scandinavian TT Manufacturer called " Bergmann " Audio. Bergmann aims to develop air-bearing turntables and air-bearing tangential tone arms with the least amount of parts. If you put four linear tracking arms on it... You get a square circle! 😁 I read a review of this Bergmann tt last night and this pro said that the accumulated distortion of most linear tracking tonearms is much worse than the slight distortion one gets from a standard tonearm. This tt is an exception because it is 'air bearing' : the tonearm (?) and the platter are floating on a cushion of air, so there is no friction, hence no distortion. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full Range Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 31 minutes ago, MeloManiac said: This tt is an exception because it is 'air bearing' : the tonearm (?) and the platter are floating on a cushion of air, so there is no friction, hence no distortion. My tonearm also floats on an air cushion And can be fitted to just about any turntable- so that makes the TransFi Terminator a unique component that anyone with a turntable can access https://trans-fi.webs.com/terminator-tonearm @MicroMara should consider one for his 3rd tonearm 🤪 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeloManiac Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Below is a picture of my collection of 'new' vinyl records I bought in the past two years. I have two more plastic boxes like this one. The second one is filled with my 'old' new albums, which I bought since the 1980s, and the third one is filled with second hand albums I bought in the local thrifstore in the past two years. Then there is a stack of LP boxes, because they don't fit in these plastic containers. I also invested in plastic sleeves for all of my albums. The thing is that I ran out of these plastic containers, and I don't think they 'll still have them in the shop where I bought them. So I'm looking for advice on how to store my albums. I listen to them all the time, in my living room, and I have very little (or no) space for a LP storage cabinet. Please consider I'm living in Europe, shipping furniture or boxes from the US to the old continent costs a fortune (as it does from the UK now too...) They seem to have quite a lot of things here: https://www.gear4music.be/nl/dj-apparatuur/vinyl-accessoires/vinyl-opslag but I have no idea what would be the best for me. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreG. Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 The only thing that emediately comes to mind is Ikea: https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/kallax-regal-weiss-80275887/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full Range Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 hour ago, MeloManiac said: So I'm looking for advice on how to store my albums. I listen to them all the time, in my living room, and I have very little (or no) space for a LP storage cabinet. Please consider I'm living in Europe, shipping furniture or boxes from the US to the old continent costs a fortune (as it does from the UK now too...) They seem to have quite a lot of things here: https://www.gear4music.be/nl/dj-apparatuur/vinyl-accessoires/vinyl-opslag but I have no idea what would be the best for me. On that link I see many good candidates and also the IKEA suggestion You need to count how many records you have in your collection Then choose a record storage unit that holds approximately double that number so you can build on it over the years 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Full Range Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 The 4 cube Kallax will probably be perfect And if you need more storage you can get another and place it on top like a double decker https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/kallax-regal-weiss-20275814/ This link has the cube internal measurements and records will fit perfectly https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/kallax-shelving-unit-white-20351884/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeloManiac Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Full Range said: The 4 cube Kallax will probably be perfect And if you need more storage you can get another and place it on top like a double decker https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/kallax-regal-weiss-20275814/ This link has the cube internal measurements and records will fit perfectly https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/kallax-shelving-unit-white-20351884/ I have actually two of these in my home (plus some bigger ones.) I'll have to start negotiations with my spouse and see if she's willing to reorganise the household. I hate going to Ikea. Feels like having run a marathon when I get back home. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 18 hours ago, Invidiosulus said: Yep, too young and not a native to the high country. Four of my kids were born in Banner Elk though so I definitely feel like this area is home at this point. There have been a couple of quakes in the area in the past decade. I think the only one that I remember noticing was actually centered somewhere up in Virginia back around 2011-12 or so. I was working at Lees-McRae College at the time and noticed the water bottle on my desk start swaying back and forth and there was a noticeable rumbling noise that filled our basement office. The housing market is nuts up here. A good friend of mine just sold his house in Banner Elk, which was really nice, for $450,000. We we’re looking at some other homes in the area, one of which was an 800sq ft dump of a shack which apparently just sold for $270,000. It makes me glad I bought my house in Spruce Pine when I did back in 2016. My father graduated from Lees-McRae college.....born in Old Fort in 1915. The family had a large Victorian house in town but many years later when I drove through sadly the house had been remuddled. All the gingerbread and trim stripped off and vinyl siding installed🤢 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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