The motor feeds are very fine to allow sharp movement of the motor against a recoil spring upon switch on. But no ! The motor feed wires had shorted, blowing a rectifier on the PCB. That's why I thought it was a motor problem. When my Xerxes failed, I feared it was the motor burnt out because my friend Richard had recently overhauled the PS, replacing transistors and capacitors, and also cleverly taking the heat producing resistors outside of the cabinet and mounting them on a heatsink on the rear. Circumstances have driven me in a certain direction. My initial question "Which arm should I keep ?" has now been answered. Can't work that out ! This site is clunky ! Can't be bothered any more tonight, maybe someone will tell me how to respond to multiple quotes in one post ? I'm now trying to post another quote so I can reply to that too. When I was 18 I moved away and lost touch with Noel. Noel "upgraded" his Thorens to one of those new fangled B&O tangential tracking thingys with advanced optical arm to detect where the record and tracks were. Why did Sonabs not do better ? For those of you unfamiliar, they were an upward firing speaker with one woofer/mid and three or four tweeters arranged around the compass points firing into the air at 45 degrees or so. I think back now and cringe that the Thorens was just plonked on the sideboard and connected up ! Not a spirit level in sight !! Naivety. I still didn't have speakers, so bought a Wharfedale Glendale kit and built the cabinets in the woodwork shop in school. When I was 16 Noel decided he wanted a change so I bought his Thorens TD150 Mk1 (attrocious arm !!) and his Cambridge P40 (£50 all in, not bad !!). Couldn't afford speakers so had headphones. I saved my earnings and bought a Garrard SP25 MkIV with a Shure M3D and a Clive Sinclair amplifier. I had an £8 Phillips transistor permanently tuned to 208 Radio Luxembourg in the evenings. This was 1970 and I didn't have a discerning ear then. Showing off I suppose, as we all do from time to time. He was into Jazz and he played his hifi to me. I cleaned his cars and raked his lawns etc. I got into hifi at 14 years old when I worked for a gentleman farmer called Noel. Why did Sonab omnidirectional speakers not do better ?Īn anecdote now. What it doesn't take into account, I agree, is the reflected sound from walls, and ceilings for that matter. However, when in an audience, we are only at one of those degrees, so a loudspeaker firing that bit at us is reasonable. I agree, a cymbal radiates its sound throughout 360 degrees.
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