SteveEast wrote:
Pat Farrell;142695 Wrote:
Probably the style was driven by the insane view that audiophiles want
"professional" equipment. While sound quality is important to sound
professionals, no "professional" turntable, either for modern DJs or
radio DJs from decades ago, has anything that an audiophile would want.
Can you explain why, please?
Because professional DJs are very mean to records and cartridges.
The first thing I was taught was how to cue a record. You put the
needle/cartridge in the grove, and listen over your headphone to the cue
feed. You back up the record with your fingers until you hear the start
of the song. Then you back it up another inch or two (depending on the
torque of the turntable). When you want to start the song, you do your
voice over, and hit 'start'. The professional radio station turntables
had huge motors that would get a record up to speed in an inch.
Audiophile worries like wow and flutter did not exist with half
horsepower turntables. No wimpy rubber bands driven by a flea powered
synchronous motor. Power, we want power.
The cartriges were sturdy. They had to take abuse. Any audiophile
cartride would be destroyed in minutes.
The tone arms had to live with folks banging coffee cups into them. No
fine grained VTA adjustments or anti-skating.
Modern radio stations no longer use vinyl, sometime in the 80s, they all
moved to cartidges, and most are now all hard disk based.
Vinyl is still hot in clubs. A fair number of club DJs do. Just watch
what they do. It is not pretty.
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Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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