[macbob713]

Anyone using a Ringmat platter mat with a Rega? If so has it had any effect on the sound quality?

 

[MisterMoJo]

  I got my AT 440mla last Saturday.  Opened a beer, broke out my Shure tracking force gauge, the Traveler's included protractor, my mirrored protractor and the magnifying glass.  An hour maybe, and I was in business.  Within the week, I'm 21 full albums deep.
 
Quite obsessing and get to enjoying it already.

Oh sure, pick on the neurotic guy.

 

[Eee Pee]

Done?  Listening to tunes yet?

 

[RUMAY408]

  Done?  Listening to tunes yet?

Done?   
 

 no!

 

[MisterMoJo]

  Done?  Listening to tunes yet?

Yep.

 

[CH23]

i just saw a stunning copper mat, at 1mm thick. Is that worth picking up?

How important is it to have a "dent" for the label on the platter? With these newer 180 gram records it's usually thicker at the label part after all...

 

[analogsurviver]

i just saw a stunning copper mat, at 1mm thick. Is that worth picking up?

How important is it to have a "dent" for the label on the platter? With these newer 180 gram records it's usually thicker at the label part after all...

Copper at 1mm thick ?  AVOID !
 
Copper at 1 mm will warp/deform out of flat ( & round...) UNLESS babied at all times - including and in the first time during shipment. Would have to be packed in a made to measure ( custom ) styrofoam or similar packaging, further protected by carton box, everything packed so that it can not move within the box - no mater what  .
 
Having a "dent" - as you put it ( recessed area below the label ) - IS important , even more so with hard surface mats - acryl, delrin, any metal - since that label area that is thicker by approx 0.5 mm ( varies greatly from one pressing plant to another ) will not allow for the intimate contact/coupling of the record groove surface with the platter - effectively negating any benefit (except for the increased mass/flywheel effect ) of the mat. If the record is not supported/damped, there is one hell of a lot being picked up by the stylus that should have never reached it in the first place.
 
It is this interface record/mat/platter that is most easy to get wrong - but it is THE very essence of any vinyl record player.

 

[Genjisleeps]

Hey guys. I'm starting to make my head-fi rig and of course I need a turntable in it. But i need help choosing one. I'm broke so it needs to be below $200. I bought a record player from a mall and for some reason only used it for 2 weeks. it just didn't give me a edge. So I need help choosing the right one. What are the good ones?

 

[Anavel0]

For under $200, I definitely look into U-Turn Audio's Orbit turntable.

 

[analogsurviver]

For under $200, I definitely look into U-Turn Audio's Orbit turntable.

It is the only choice for the decent new TT under $200 - if you live in the US.

 

[Anavel0]

It is the only choice for the decent new TT under $200 - if you live in the US.

That is true. I don't know of any sub $200 turntables outside of the U.S. I'm assuming they exist. Can anyone enlighten me?

 

[analogsurviver]

That is true. I don't know of any sub $200 turntables outside of the U.S. I'm assuming they exist. Can anyone enlighten me?

I doubt it. The nearest comes Project Elemental at EUR 199.

 

[Genjisleeps]

HOw do you guys connect AMPs and DACs to a turntable. As for the turntable I got I just went to the Guitar Center here in vegas and got the cheapest one for $151 which was the Numark TTUSB. Looked it up here when I got home after I bought it you guys didn't talk about it much.  While I was looking it up I saw a thing called preamps do turntables need a different kind of amp that the regular amp the the Magni 2 from Schiit? Sorry for the newbie questions I'm new to all this.

 

[CH23]

HOw do you guys connect AMPs and DACs to a turntable. As for the turntable I got I just went to the Guitar Center here in vegas and got the cheapest one for $151 which was the Numark TTUSB. Looked it up here when I got home after I bought it you guys didn't talk about it much.  While I was looking it up I saw a thing called preamps do turntables need a different kind of amp that the regular amp the the Magni 2 from Schiit? Sorry for the newbie questions I'm new to all this.

Yes you'll need a pre-amp to bring the phono signal coming out of your turntable onto line signal. Schiit has a phono preamp. (But i'm sure others in this thread know of better alternatives)

Turntable -> phono preamp -> amp -> speakers/headphone

Also, why connect a DAC to a turntable? There's nothing digital coming out of the tunrtable...

 

[Genjisleeps]

Yes you'll need a pre-amp to bring the phono signal coming out of your turntable onto line signal. Schiit has a phono preamp. (But i'm sure others in this thread know of better alternatives)

Turntable -> phono preamp -> amp -> speakers/headphone

Also, why connect a DAC to a turntable? There's nothing digital coming out of the tunrtable...

OK thanks! oh as for the dac thing I was only going over what I was reading and I saw people asking for dacs too.