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Thanks for the very clear explanation! I haven't listened to vinyl since the late 80s or so but I've always wondered how a single stylus could produce two different sounds.

Very very good

Thanks for the info. Great🎉

Just bought them love them 😊

Do you have a video explaining differences with an acrylic platter? I see fluance has some and I’m not sure if it’s worthy he extra cost? Im assuming with that platter you do not need a mat?

Cheap cassette recorders used DC bias. Unfortunately that made the head become magnetized quicker and it added noise to the signal.

Hi Craig @VinylTV33, just to say that I miss your videos : ) hoping you are well. And thanks again for sharing with us your vision and learnings. Vinyl is final!! Cheers : )

Should you do the alignment first, then set balance and anti skate since you mentioned that you have to repeat this step after alignment?

How was the tape explanation relevant to the subject of the video, just makes it longer !!!

I think you're the fool. My friend. You feel sooooòo strongly that you need to make people " see the light" . You have NO mechanical experience or understanding. This is clear ! What does it matter to you ? Honestly, what do it really matter to you

I just discovered your channel on an 8 year old video. I was excited to see you are still dropping more videos. Thank you!! 🤘

Good morning one from Montreal. Your first video 9 years ago popped up and then this, love it and thank you, you got yourself a new friend 🎶😎

I see this thing just practical. Mostly, I use my turntable for recordings that don't exist on digital platforms. I've got plenty of 12" remixes and even some LPs has been remixed later on. So there are versions that don't exist no more. Sometimes you'll get some of this stuff here at CZcams (in wich quality ever), but you can't count on this. I started to digitize a lot of that stuff, but kept the original for backup. I improved the sound at my PC (decrackle, denoising, rarely eqalizing) and it sounds fantastic, even after converting it to mp3 (usually LAME at VBR with V2 quality).

Thinking quite seriously about getting a turntable, tuner and cd and speakers, someone said on a video make sure the turntable has an amp included none of the ones i have seen mention this, or is this only for older turntables ? My vinyl i have is mostly 12 inch records from the late 70s/early 80s, and a few compilation albums various artists, compact discs havearound 100 .

Getting my RT-85 tomorrow. 15% off sale, $425, oh yeah. Can't wait to hear it. Btw, I have the td-17kvx drum set. After 3 or 4 years I've had to replace one crash cymbal. Other than that, it's a really good unit. Combined with EZDrummer 3 software, the possibilities are endless.

Getting my RT85 delivered tomorrow. Will be following these instructions. I did get a blank LP on one side and the protractor on the other to set the anti-skate and cartridge alignment. Thank you for this awesome video.

Very helpful tutorial, thanks a lot

It was nice to know that you’re back. I just discovered this now! I personally don’t hate digital. There’s room for both analog and digital. Digital has limitations too. I think the reason most of us like vinyl is because of the “distortion”. Glad to see your back.

Im back four years later to say i pass this vid onto many clients who pop by and get excited on seeing my turntable play flawlessly. Thank you once again 🎉

⚠⚠For those recording directly from Audio-Technica Turntables with a built in USB output⚠⚠SET THE SWITCH ON THE BACK TO “LINE”… Otherwise you will be stuck with an annoying high pitch background noise in each recording. It took me a few tries to figure it out

You know what? I just bought the Audio-Technica LP120XUSB today! Intuitively I set the tonearm almost as you explained. But I'm going to do it again properly! Thanks for your video: your explanations were crystal clear! Wonderful <3

Wow❤Helpful video sir thank you very much

Great video!

So glad u like them both. Thanks. We pronounce it "vin-ill" but call them records. I affectionately call them "plastic"

I have not touched my record player Stanton STR8-90 which was working perfectly for a few years ago. Now that sound wobbles and vibrates, and I can't figure it out why. My guess is probably something happened to the rubber band inside. Do you have any ideas or suggestions I should try?

Great job🎉

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Most albums of the last 40 years were recorded digitally and then converted to analogue

Helped me out a lot, all the other quick how to videos aren’t the way… this guy is the way

Cheers for such a clear and informative video bud!

When do we adjust the height of the arm?

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We older guys have found other issues from experience. The storage and moving your residence is the bigger problem. Ona big reliable portable hard drive you can store and MOVE A CLOSET FULL of analogue recording. Storage is expensive.

Perhaps a better way is to be realistic. There are several compromises because recording is linear and playback is circular.

Just found the channel. Lot of good stuff. However that glass of wine sittng there next to his audio equipment and his hands flailing away as he is talking just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Amazingly explained! Just bought my first ever turntable and cannot wait to use your knowledge in setting it up correctly. Thank you so much!

BEST tutorial hands down thank you 🙌

Man, all of these "Audiophile" people are ridiculous. There's barely any difference at all. I have the same turntable and it sounds no different than a $1,000 high end turntable. You're ears are deceiving you, buddy! The only thing that matters is that the needle doesn't skipor get stuck...NOW THAT'S AN ANNOYING ASS PROBLEM RIGHT THERE!

I've had my Technics SL B21 since the mid 80's. After a long hiatus I am bringing my sound system out of retirement, as I am transitioning into retirement myself. I'd like to echo the sentiments of others in saying, this is the best explanation I've seen to demystifying the setting of those dials, to get the tracking right. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you.

I just liten to my 'vinyl records' on Spotify Premium, cassette tapes are another thing, it is like Cassette Deck - Laptop AUX - Audacity

EVERY SCRATCH IS A MEMORY OF A PUNK/ROCK PARTY I HAD.

Great video, thank you. Nice explanation of this. Would love to go back to when I was young and Chrome and Metal tapes were readily available and grab half a dozen of each :)

This is great, I've never changed a cartridge in my life and will obviously need to do so at some point in time regardless of how much I like the one I have haha also one never knows when they might find a new turntable that they like or want to build a second setup for a second room of the house so yeah very nice video.

this is the best setup video. no bullshit, straight to the point. I am very happy about the result. sound quality highly improved after properly setting up my system. Thank you

If your pickup arm has pin into cup bearings and they are loose, then the record will sound crap. If it is too tight a different type of crap. The same type of logic can be applied for most bearing systems where pickup arms resonate trying both to support the cartridge and allow movement over the record without friction bending the cartridges cantilever. You can get good performance from a well set up basic arm. The deck does two things, it provides support for the platter and drive mechanism. It also holds the pickup arm in an accurate and vibration free position. This implies a rigidly engineered structure connecting the pickup arm and the platters bearings. The bearings themselves must hold the platter to very tight tolerances. The deck must not act as a mechanical signal source to the cartridge. The only mechanical drive for the cartridge should come from the vinyl. I can see this in simple decks such as Rega, but I scratch my head with a lot of the electronic controlled decks in particular.

I’ve got over a thousand records, 600 cds, a hundred or so cassettes, and a bluesound node to stream. I have never told anyone that vinyl sounds better. I get a kick out of just how good these antiquated formats can sound compared to a good stream and have fun listening to all formats. I compare listening to a record to something like the tea ceremony. Interesting that you mention 320. That was my personal cut off. Anything lower than that and it did sound bad to me. The absolute best sounding stuff for me is a good file on TIDAL steamed through my blusound node. Let’s not mention MQA.

Very educational. I never knew this.

Thanks for your clear insight. Much appreciated and i am going to improve my system with your info

THANK YOU AGAIN!!! :D