Turntable advice / opinion on setup / sound.

@richardbrand 

"That appalling crash video of an early Australian Holden Commodore should be taken in context.  It was done to validate the test procedure, not the car!  The car was a second-hand crate and was loaded with 300-kgs of sand, some in the boot.  It was originally a European design from Opel which had to be beefed up just to survive Australian roads.  The impact speed was 60-mph not the 35-mph you quoted - over three times the kinetic energy.  Not survivable in anything!"

You can take if facetiously or not, it’s the one I was referring to.

"And my point was that these tools were simply not available at any cost when Roy was starting out, whereas they were the research basis for Wilson Benesch’s foundation decades later.

I am a contemporary of Roy’s and went through a highly regarded university where the word computer was never mentioned although the university had built a pioneering one called EDSAC in the late 1940s following on from the work at Bletchley Park. Also descended from Bletchley Park was Cybor House in Sheffield, widely regarded as the top operational research outfit in Europe. We had three computers there, an ICL mainframe, an Elliot 503 (still 2-tons in weight) and a real-time computer locked in a mobile truck for on-site process control development. All input was by punched cards (mainframe) or paper tape, so all batch processed. 

Not a sign of a time-sharing terminal or a network, let alone a personal computer or a mobile phone.  Things were totally different back in the day when Roy was starting Rega."

Mm, Rega didn’t get into the electronics game until around 1990 and Terry would have access to these tools by then and I’m sure Roy would have invested in them.

"I am a contemporary of Roy’s and went through a highly regarded university where the word computer was never mentioned although the university had built a pioneering one called EDSAC in the late 1940s following on from the work at Bletchley Park. Also descended from Bletchley Park was Cybor House in Sheffield, widely regarded as the top operational research outfit in Europe. We had three computers there, an ICL mainframe, an Elliot 503 (still 2-tons in weight) and a real-time computer locked in a mobile truck for on-site process control development. All input was by punched cards (mainframe) or paper tape, so all batch processed."

Specifically, though, what’s all this gibberish have to do with the discussion?

@faustuss 

Mm, Rega didn’t get into the electronics game until around 1990 and Terry would have access to these tools by then and I’m sure Roy would have invested in them ... Specifically, though, what’s all this gibberish have to do with the discussion?

The original discussion was about turntables and cartridges.  Somebody introduced Rega, to a pretty mixed reception.  I thought it interesting to compare the empirical, bottom-up evolution of Rega with the decades-later top-down introduction of Wilson Benesch.

My reading of Rega's history from 1973 is that they originally supplied arms from other manufacturers, before investing in the tooling required to make their own cast aluminium arm, the 1983 RB300.  Only when that tooling wore out, and they moved to magnesium, did they use computer modelling.

@billstevenson 

I understood the rule, and actually support it. You have to protect the stupid from themselves, us from the stupid (assuming we are brilliant of course) not to mention the potential eventuality of mistakes.

This is one funny show, the issue comes up

https://www.netflix.com/title/81758849

I can't make myself watch it.  The link sends me to a sign up for $8.99 per month or some such.  I am sure it is funny, I'll take your word for it.