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MCM even sells turntable belts. Try finding those anywhere!

(My daughter just pointed out that turntable belts are right next to the sealing wax and buggy whips in the local Best Buy...):yikes:

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I think your daughter is pulling your leg.

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I think you're right. I looked by the buggy whips and did not see turntable belts at all. I even asked, but they looked at me as if I was crazy, so I just backed away slowly...

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I found the belts but not the buggy whips. They are by the vacuum cleaner bags. Go figure.

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Did you look near the 8-track tapes?

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They're in the back corner, by the tube tester.

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That is just way too funny!

I was waxing nostalgic the other evening and explaining to my grown daughter that what is now a major 4-lane intersection with malls and shopping centers as far as the eye can see, used to be a 2-lane blacktop with a 4-way stop and a corner drug store that had a tube tester.

To which she answered, of course, "What's a tube?"

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Don, you have to get with the times someday. No one uses belt-driven turntables to play music anymore...

They use direct drive turntables. :p ;)

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Sorry dude all the best turntables were belt driven. Direct drive induces noise.

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Not with a good turntable with a nice, heavy platter like an SL1200. The noise is offset by the quick startup time, which is pretty important for stuff like DJing or FM radio.

Meh, I'm probably too young to understand all this ancient technology. :P

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Dude SL1200 is a toy.

I'm talking when I was your age I had a thorens turntable that cost twice as much as my car!

OK so I was young and stupid but man that thing was great.

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Back in my day, we didn't need no belts. Our pants just stayed up by they lonesomes. 'Course, that was back before they invented all that gravity nonsense. Ne'er did see the point of that, what with stuff falling down all the time. Chicken Little was right! Now-a-days you can't hardly step outside without some new fangled invention going all Newton's Law Three Laws of Motion on yeh!

Whippersnappers have no respect these days. Three Laws? Feh! I ain't got no use for laws beyond the One Law: Get Off My Lawn!

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Chris, as Sam noted there is a measurable difference in rumble (and arguably wow) between DD and BD, but I'd happily argue that a human couldn't hear it. Belt-driven was about $150, direct drive twice that, so I put most of the money into the cartridge (needle) instead.

Is waxing nostalgic about outdated technologies a sign of aging?

Oh, Sam: I have a Sony 8-track recording machine downstairs...

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My brother recently cleaned up his office/shop, and was trying to give away the record cutting machine.....I guess I'm supposed to get the greenkeys teletype, but he said termites got to it's crate. Oh well.

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Is it quad? That would be uber cool!