Turntable
My brother recently lent me his old turntable, which he had given to his fiancé before he had made her a custom, home-made one. It’s an old but still very serviceable Project 1.2, which needed a new cartridge. Unfortunately, the tone arm rest doesn’t have a retaining clip over it any more, and when it was being transported, the tone arm—-complete with bare stylus—-jumped out of the rest and gouged a furrow in the base of the turntable. Needless to say, this isn’t to be recommended, and the stylus looked like a tiny, blackened stump after the accident.
I bought an Ortofon OM10 cartridge (complete with the obligatory ‘but she’s a girl…’ moment, where the assistant looked startled and panicked when I asked if there was a paper tracking alignment gauge included in the box), and spent some time this morning setting it up. Turntables are pernickety beasts.
