2 NICE Pickering Carts with new retips on the D625 styli.

[WOPL Sniffer]

2 Pickering XV-15/625E cartridges in very nice condition but the stylus on each (D625) needed retips and after being retipped by a popular shop. stylus retips on both carts and he installed NEW Nude Ogura 8/35 micron Vital Fine Line Contact diamonds and the new diamonds were $235 each Just for the retip. I want $225 for each cartridge. Do a peruse of the net and the price for a new stylus alone is WAY higher than what I'm asking and you also get a beautiful XV-15/625E. I haven't mounted them so they are new. I think I have a Stanton 681 EEE with the EEE stylus also.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I think they said the diamond will survive for about 1000 hours...... Sounds like they will outlast me............

 

[J!m]

Whoever said diamonds are forever, didn’t play records.

 

[Northwinds]

I have a XV 3000 with a new Shibata coming from a friend with a bunch of other like new carts, some still in boxes. Can't wait to try a few out before they go to AK. Some preamps to. Really wish I could afford to retip my Dynavector Ruby though but I doubt it would be worth it. Sort of like me keep fixing this Jeep we have

GLWS Perry, these look like bitching carts, especially for the money! Should last more then 1000hrs I would think?? That's 1200 records aboutish. I do that in a year to year and a 1/2 and still running same Shure cart

 

[mr_rye89]

Yeah I can burn out a needle in a year. If I can get that conversion VCR sold I might.....

 

[J!m]

I remember those Pickering/Stanton cartridges from back in the day magazine ads.

 

[Bob Boyer]

We had Stanton 581s on the tonearms at eh FM station. They could usually handle the back-cueing. Usually.

We kept spares.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

We had Stanton 581s on the tonearms at eh FM station. They could usually handle the back-cueing. Usually.

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HUH?

 

[J!m]

Gotta cue up the start of the tune for broadcast!

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Gotta cue up the start of the tune for broadcast!

Aint it just hovering over the record until you need it??

 

[J!m]

Nope.

Bob'll tell ya.

Songs with long lead-ins might get talked over though (always hated that when trying to make a tape)...

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I guess it's another example of home use stereo gear, being used out in a "rough use" industry which it was not made for.

 

[Gepetto]

Studio tables had a clutch on them. Didn't rotate until clutch engaged.

Arms were manual, you put it close to the song break and sometimes had to back up the LP by hand to get it in the dead zone. LP still not rotating.

When you wanted the song to start, the clutch was engaged.

That is the cueing Bob refers to.

They had those tables at my college radio station and that is how it was done.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Studio tables had a clutch on them. Didn't rotate until clutch engaged.

Arms were manual, you put it close to the song break and sometimes had to back up the LP by hand to get it in the dead zone. LP still not rotating.

When you wanted the song to start, the clutch was engaged.

That is the cueing Bob refers to.

They had those tables at my college radio station and that is how it was done.

Now I understand. You mean I had to come out from under my rock to learn something new??

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Somebody buy these dammit..... I found a sealed vinyl Hooked album by Great White and I need it ($200)... GW has been one of my fav's over the years and when I get my room set up, I'll have my Jack White Services and you are all invited. Free Pabst Blue Ribbon for the masses.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I've been buying new, still sealed albums to add to my collection. I open them to enjoy and take care of them so when they are sold by the wife when I am gone, they will still be nice and worth half of what I paid for them. Or, LESS. Either way, a new album, when cleaned with acetone and a soft wire brush mounted on a Hurdy Gertie, you'll be "Impressed" especially when you wake up from your drunk stupor and utter the words HUH?? I did WHAT last night???

 

[mr_rye89]

 

[J!m]

I’m quite certain acetone will melt the vinyl. Don’t do that.

 

[Gepetto]

I’m quite certain acetone will melt the vinyl. Don’t do that.

Yeah, just stick to the wire brush Perry

 

[Bob Boyer]

What Andrew posted. The Russcos at the FM station would come up to full speed in 1/4 turn of the platter (45 rpm) and less at 33.3 rpm. It took the big Gates 16" tables at an AM station where I worked 1/3 turn. You'd drop the needle (hopefully) in the dead zone between songs on the album and spin it forward just enough to find the beginning of the song, then spin the platter backwards for 1/4 revolution. It was easier on 45s where there's only the one song. Flip the switch on the mixer and the record started spinning immediately, allowing for a tight mix as the previous record fades out. Each volume pot on the board had a notch at the bottom of the pot which would engage a small speaker on the board so you could hear your cue at the beginning of the song without it going over the air.

Occasionally, as between songs on an album that were mixed together - one song into the next - and you didn't want the first song played, we'd slip cue the record: locate the stylus where you wanted to start fading up, turn on the turntable and hold the record to keep it from spinning with the platter, finally releasing the record to spin while bringing the volume pot up to fade from one song into the next.