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Vinyl Players - DC Servo System

  • 27-08-2008 4:57pm
    #1
    raindog.promo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭


    DC Servo System?

    Anyone know what it is? What it does?

    (This seemed the most appropriate topic - Music Production, Feel free to move mods if wrong place.)

    Remember those cheap old systems you got in car boot sales that cost 3 quid and when the record was finished the needle would auromatically return to it's resting point? Why don't they do them anymore?
    I bought my last one for 100 odd euro and if i fell asleep while listening to something it would keep playing the runout groove all feckin night.


    http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi?view_subcat=1&id=5564&sid=10&cid=4199

    These are what I'm looking at so far. Any recommendations / stay away froms??

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭PaulBrewer


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo


    See, Mate, what you want is an MP3 player ....


  • #3
    raindog.promo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭raindog.promo


    So, in laymans terms, it keeps the vinyl spinning at a precise speed, error correcting any change in speed. I see. Cheers.

    As for getting an MP3 player,

    nahhhhhhhhhhh.

    I love listening to vinyl. Call it a stupid ritual, but I like it.
    Seeing as you can get them transferred into digital now, I guess you get the best of both worlds.


  • #4
    PaulBrewer
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    raindog.promo wrote: »
    So, in laymans terms, it keeps the vinyl spinning at a precise speed, error correcting any change in speed. I see. Cheers.

    As for getting an MP3 player,

    nahhhhhhhhhhh.

    I love listening to vinyl. Call it a stupid ritual, but I like it.
    Seeing as you can get them transferred into digital now, I guess you get the best of both worlds.

    Cool, whatever works Brother...


  • #5
    indough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭indough


    raindog.promo wrote: »
    Remember those cheap old systems you got in car boot sales that cost 3 quid and when the record was finished the needle would auromatically return to it's resting point? Why don't they do them anymore?
    I bought my last one for 100 odd euro and if i fell asleep while listening to something it would keep playing the runout groove all feckin night.

    There isn't really a big enough market for automatic turntables anymore, so manufacturers just don't really make them


  • #6
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    God knows what those converters sound like I'd stay away from USB turntables like the plague.

    Rega Planar (not mine)

    Marantz recorder


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