Low Cost Turntable - Incredible Performance
I highly recommend the Pioneer PL-30-K Belt Drive Line Output Automatic Turntable. Amazon offers for $400 but new in box are $299 on eBay now. I owned higher-end TTs and I can say this TT sounds as good. It is not well known compared to other brands, Replace the low end AT3600 cartridge though. A bonus is it is fully automatic. IMO you cannot go wrong with this purchase.
In 3 of 5 goes, yes it was correct. The other two times were wrong, the last after his error was pointed out! I don't think his contribution is worth the acrimony ... my highlights and thumbs up and down below
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Found an article which may help! Virtins Sound Card Instrument Manual. It describes how software called Multi-Instrument can be used with a PC sound card to measure turntable wow, and flutter. More importantly, it has an excellent description of what wow, flutter, drift and scrape are. It talks about Fourier transforms to convert the output signal from the time domain to the frequency domain, and how we are really trying to output a Frequency Modulated (FM) signal. There’s remarkably little Chinglish and reference to quite a variety of standards which are mainly equivalent. There is a major outlier however with the Japanese standard.
Obviously, the Root Mean Square value is less than the peak value so turntables rated using the JIS standard (typically Japanese ones) will appear to have lower wow and flutter than those rated using the AES standard. Wow and flutter measurements go way back before computers, Fast Fourier Transforms and Digital Signal Processing, and the earlier versions of the standards described analog methods of returning the FM signal.
That’s why the frequency (not amplitude) beating effect is most easily heard with instruments that do not have the vibrato option - such as piano and clarinet - and not with strings or trombones. In theory! |
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