VPI Speed Problem

Have you checked the speed with a strobe?

Agree-buy that cheaply-built, worst-of-the-idlers Lenco-why, you could even have 'Oregon' build a plinth for it! Coincidentally, I'm sure.

Then, when sleep seems impossible, start reading one of Jean Nantais' epic-length, chest-thumping and self-congratulatory posts. You'll be sleeping like a baby in moments. Mmmmm.

Hurry on back to your J.N. lovefest girls, where you and the rest of the adoring sycophants gaze starry-eyed at the world's most unlikely audio guru. Cry out with joy and admiration as J.N. produces another of the most god-awful- ugly turntable 'masterpieces' (I especially like the attachment of the cabinet hardware-nice!) the world has e'er seen. Cluck with sympathy as he regales you with the 'customs problems' that prevented the 6-moons review. But no matter what, agree with whatever BS JN spouts, lest you be tossed from the ranks. LOL-you people are the laughing stock of the audio world.

Seriously-you couldn't make this stuff up.

Agree with you 'Tfkaudio', and I feel shame. Even though 'Oregon' initially jacked the thread, I should have taken the high road and let it slide.

Still, as I first posted, we have yet to know if the OP has checked the actual platter speed, which would be the first step in diagnosing the problem.

If you bought the tt new, it should have a strobe disc-with that, you don't need a 'strobe'-a fluorescent, or even an incandescent light, held over the strobe disc, will 'flash' at 60 cycles to make the scale on the disc appear to stabilize when the speed is correct. If you don't have one, they're available at VinylEngine (free) to download and print.

Not to keep flogging this point, but until you have a way to check the actual speed of the platter, you can't make any assumptions about speed inaccuracies with your deck, or make a meaningful correction to the speed. Unless there is something horribly wrong (unlikely) your SDS will be able to produce a dead-accurate 33 1/3 (and 45) rpm.

As an aside, an idler drive is no more speed accurate, without correction, than any other type of turntable drive-the ability to hear Van Morrison farting during a recording session doesn't mean that the fart is exiting his buttockial area at the correct speed.

Hey, Srwooten, we must have posted at almost the same time. Good advice, though.(-:

Forget it 'Reb1208'-you're dealing with the Scientologists of Audio. Once again, D. Pogue has jacked this thread, apparently because the interest level at the 'Homedespot' thread has died. Not to worry Dave-I'm sure JN has simply realized that he, not T. Edison, invented the reproduction of sound. You and your fellows should prepare to applaud His genius, perhaps by purchasing more grossly overpriced, and, frankly, simply gross, plinths. I'd go for the 'marbelized' version with optional deer antlers-sweet!

And here he is, Dave's li'l buddy, Yogi and Boo Boo, Mutt and Jeff, Skipper and Gilligan, the two Lenco Heroes, who somehow can't contain their "enthusiasm" for JN to their own thread, but are following each other to jack threads that have nothing to do with LencoLove. Oregon, of course, is employing 12th grade playground sexual innuendo as a defense. Nicely done-you've proven my point about your silly 'Homedespot' group hug.

Sure, 'Oregon', I've read (some) of that thread-though I've never made it completely through an entire JN post (seriously-have you?) I used to think I'd learn something, but it quickly became apparent that 'Homedespot' is no place for real tt thought and interaction-look at the way you even ran Win, the consummate gentleman and actual tt exspert, off. Instead, it's a thread based on the born-again christian philosophy: accept our dogma, or go to hell.

But that's all fine-you've got your little clubhouse. What I don't understand is why you feel compelled to jack a thread that has nothing to do with your favored tt. You haven't seen me over at 'HomeDespot' trying to disrupt whatever the hell it is you're doing-how about some of the same respect for other POVs? Or does JN insist that you go door-to-door and hand out copies of 'The Watchtower'?

As I said previously-you're a laughingstock.