I love how the tonearm alignment was done with a ruler and the old "let's eyeball it" technique. That's just so analog.

@jeffreymccarty1388

2 жыл бұрын

He was just checkin articulation!!...hahahh!

@glynnetolar4423

2 жыл бұрын

And error prone. Surprised the thing is glued together. For as expensive as it looks. Then again, maybe I don't understand how you attach carbon fiber to metal.

@kylesalem-fuson8012

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that… Reminds me of that movie Armageddon when Ben affleck has a crankshaft from an engine stood up on a bench and he’s measuring it with a dial indicator… also by hand/eye 🤣

@googleyoutubechannel8554

8 ай бұрын

@@glynnetolar4423 epoxy

The footage of the lathe cutting the workpieces were shot so beautifully!

2:00 I like how they cut to the final small part being peened to have a satin finish with a bushing in it after it's been CNC'd from a big-ass billet of metal. You could literally make the same part using powdered metal or die casting, but then it wouldn't be "audiophile grade." Classic.

@jdmjesus6103

2 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of nonsense in this video. Like using carbon fibre on a balanced arm instead of metal (why does the weight matter if its balanced?) Then using 'copper coated wires' to avoid interference? So it's got massive capacitance then? Wouldn't be surprised if an old technics 1210 gave a better sound in a blind test. It is technically superior after all, with its direct drive.

@mysock351C

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdmjesus6103 I guarantee it probably would, esp. since most of those older machines had some form of speed control for the platter drive. The drive mechanism on this looks like something from someone's science fair project in grade school.

@scottsatterthwaite4073

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdmjesus6103 "copper coated wires"...No! they have a copper foil overwrap. Yes, that does increase capacitance. So what? That's easy enough to compensate for in the audio circuit. More important, that copper wrap shields those pickup wires from EMI and RFI which could induce static at the audio pre-amp.

@scottsatterthwaite4073

2 жыл бұрын

@@mysock351C The differences in motor technology are night and day different. Motor speed is digitally controlled on the new motors. Old phonographs had to be adjusted for each of the three speeds (33rpm, 45rpm, 78rpm) using a oscilloscope by turning a potentiometer on the control board.

@thetoycollectorgreyghost7651

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdmjesus6103 technices are the best turntables out their. If you can find a real vintage one that still works it produces the best sound quality

Man I love this show....I remember my dad & I watching a lot of them in the afternoon back in the day.

@totallynate1408

2 жыл бұрын

same here

@Andrew-fm8tv

2 жыл бұрын

Same’sees

@TreesSillyASMR

2 жыл бұрын

same!!

"It's time for the vinyl test" was the best pun till today.

@bobo4664

2 жыл бұрын

Cause it’s the vinyl countdown]]

@jamesbizs

2 жыл бұрын

I dunno man. Didn’t sound like a purposeful pun. Normally you can tell, because they use a different tone. This was in fact a vinyl test.

@joeallfrontsquiet8797

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I vinyly got it.

Ooooh so THIS is the level of craftsmanship that goes into a Crosley Cruiser. Neat!

@fortheprofit2186

2 жыл бұрын

💀

Countless amount of turntables I repaired back in the day, from Dual to Denon to B & O. I'd rather have one of those than the one in this video.

@hashtag-shaneiacs

2 жыл бұрын

Setting azimuth by eye No azimuth adjustment Off the shelf motor complete with the part number and where to get it Amazing

@arupdutta7687

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, looks absolutely worthless. The vintage turntables are much more nice to look at.

@johnathin0061892

2 жыл бұрын

These are for hipsters with more money than sense.

@hashtag-shaneiacs

2 жыл бұрын

Also, the solder job was kinda, questionable? Heated up the heat shrink sleeves with the iron instead of like - an at least $20 heat gun.

@HozNickle

2 жыл бұрын

And the one in this video costs a few thousand dollars too

3:34 That soldering killed me xD Looks like first attempt of a baby to solder wires xD

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

I'll be honest, it's better than I can do.

That soldering and heat shrinking was painful to watch.. Can afford CNC mills and lathes but not better electrical fab training?

Well well well... How the turn tables!

@calilsg

2 жыл бұрын

Came here for this! lol

@taeilshighnotesinchain5621

2 жыл бұрын

Came for this

@AhDollar

3 ай бұрын

this is probably the least clever joke in history

The shoddy diy electrical work, did not match the high-end mechanical parts.

@FrancSchiphorst

2 жыл бұрын

That $15 soldering iron....

@oscar_charlie

2 жыл бұрын

And they can't afford a heat gun to properly shrink the tubing on those horrible solder joints?

@matthougas928

2 жыл бұрын

Then he just fuckin stuffs everything in there, so much excess wire dangling around in there

@jdmjesus6103

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, the thing is glued together.

@desktopabyss6198

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who has to deal with budget cuts... I can see why, not saying I agree with it all, just saying I understand. Lol

My dorsal fin got out of my back after I saw that soldering. And shrink tubing.

For what this thing costs I would expect more accuracy than "lets eyeball it" --

@HSCollectibles

2 жыл бұрын

Or a better job at soldering those wires.......

@ziginox

2 жыл бұрын

@@HSCollectibles YEP. It would help if he had a proper iron, instead of that cheapo. Also a heatgun for the heatshrink.

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

That's how they do it in Ghana.

So much automated fabrication, and then lining the arm on the eye? High quality components, but shrinking with an iron? This can be done better.

All of that beautiful machine work, carbon fiber, and design, then install a $2 motor and belt. Wow!

@mra.prasetio

2 жыл бұрын

If it's work, why not? It will also be cheaper to replace it in case of damage.

@donaldvincent

2 жыл бұрын

@@mra.prasetio You want a very accurate way to control RPM's. It will not sound right if the RPM is off even just a little.

@ArmedAlex

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing, so I looked the part number up for the motor and it looks to be a £90 component

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

You also must know that the black gentleman was added for woke effect.

@donaldvincent

7 ай бұрын

@alanrogs3990 The show is out of Montreal, so no, they are not concerned with labels applied by Governor DeSantis.

I think I could have soldered and wired that better, and I'm awful at soldering. This is a $50 turntable rather than a $5000 turntable...right? Right? I'm struggling to justify buying a new tone arm for the Thorens TD-124 in my parents' basement, never mind dropping an amount of cash that could be the down payment on a new car on a new turntable.

@pronoe

2 жыл бұрын

Wait this piece of junk is $5000 ???

@BLUELEADER78

2 жыл бұрын

@@pronoe, you're paying for all the material they machined off of the big blocks of materials.

@frankorandle

2 жыл бұрын

Tone arm wires are about as thin as human hair and not the easiest thing to solder even with experience soldering thicker gauge wires. You also have to do it four times and use heat shrink tubing on all solder joints. The TD-124 tone arm being surface mounted should make the job easier but it still won't be pleasant. The new $1,000.00 Technics SL-1200MK7 has history but the vintage MK2 have been the best since the late 1970's for direct drive with exceptional damping. Replacing the tone arm on a MK2 is a small nightmare because of the damping. The MK2's where used in pairs in almost every nightclub around the world for many decades before things went digital.

@dougaltolan3017

3 ай бұрын

​@@frankorandleI've soldered coax cable where the outer diameter is less than 1mm. Those wires are a piece of cake.

Most very high grade turntables use air bearings or oil floated journals with heavy brass, glass, ceramic or stainless steel platters. You can also choose from direct drive ironless eddy current or belt driven AC synchronous motors. They can weight hundreds of pounds and cost tens of thousands of dollars.

All that and the tech uses the solder iron instead of a heat gun to skink the heat shrink? Wow. Horrible.

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

Not a tech. Just a woke addition. They got him from the warehouse.

Machine operated milling is so satisfying to watch

@jamesbizs

2 жыл бұрын

Compared to hand operated milling?

Finally, the answer to the ultimate question that perplexed mankind for so long: oh how the turn tables...

Are we not gonna talk about how at 3:40 he just mashes the bare wires inside the joint, not thinking about shorting or other kinds of interference?!

During the final test. I noticed the wires sticking out. I have never seen wires sticking out like that on any record player.

I miss the hold days of a stack of records playing, and you have to be careful not to bump whatever the record player was on. My first album was Led Zpplins In through the out door then Vanhalens Jump! Those started my addiction to vinyl! Lol in the evening…… bam jam! All my love! Fool in the rain, hot dog, south bound Suarez. Almost EVERY song was fantastic! Most albums you bought because 4 of the 10 or more songs were great, and the other junk. Not that album. I wore that record out! Oh, to be 16 again, and to have my 59 year old knowledge!

I love turntables had one since I was a kid

Love the cheap RS Components motor and the spindle wobble shown in all its glory. Bet the brand didn’t get a preview of the final video before it went live 🙈😂

@kimsmoke17

2 жыл бұрын

The motor is a McLennan 9904 Reversible Synchronous AC Motor. It costs roughly. US$105 which is equivalent to adding $400-500 to the retail price of the final product. It is considered a high quality motor.

@matchstickdesignco

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimsmoke17 McLennan is a distributor. They don't make anything.

I like how they’re cutting acrylic with carbide.

girl the way me and my sister watched this everyday after school RELIGIOUSLY

@jjhack3r

2 жыл бұрын

✝️

That is not how you solder?

@johnwiley8417

2 жыл бұрын

...or shrink tubing.

@GlaciaDay

2 жыл бұрын

Or adjust alignment horizontally...

@ieatslag5947

2 жыл бұрын

Or poop in a bucket…

On RCA Victor - released same year of my birth.

If you have this channel and huggbees subscribed, whenever you click on a how it's made video you never know what I'm gonna get

I saw a wobble on the motor drive wheel And some platter wobble.... 😕

@BLUELEADER78

2 жыл бұрын

But, but it's got a carbon fiber arm thingy...

@JD-lk7im

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLUELEADER78 Haha... Ok, you've twisted my arm...

I had the fortune of know the vinil players in 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM They was beautiful fornitures

Reupload from many yeaes ago.. This model has been updated now.

Wow, terrible soldering job. Also for someone doing this all day for a living, he should have used a heat gun to do the heat shrink instead of burning it unevenly with the tip of the iron.

@MINMAXX

2 жыл бұрын

glad i'm not the only one who saw this hack job

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. But what do you expect from India.

@dannydougin3925

2 жыл бұрын

Oh waa waa! I've seen worse on others.

I love HMV records.... its a bitter-sweet melody

Can't believe this thing cost thousands of dollars yet they built it like that?

Still using my Linn turntable I bought in 1985…

@terencejay8845

2 жыл бұрын

The dream Linn combo from the early 80s: Sondek, Ittok arm, Atac cartridge. I made do with a Dual 505, which I still have.

Well well well, how the turntable.

I hope that's not more than £100, pretty poor quality.

@Peterljr888

2 жыл бұрын

That Full Circle turntable is about $4000 or £3000. Ridiculous right?

@ernsailor9041

2 жыл бұрын

@@Peterljr888 I made my own turntable about 40 years ago and it was far better than that junk.

98% of the money going into that thing doesn’t have any relevance to the audio quality whatsoever...

Wilson Benesch Full Circle turntable, ACT 0.5 tonearm, & Ply MC cartridge

People who think that vinyl sounds better has never actually looked into the science. A single needle cannot pickup all of the ridges in a groove, and it will skip over a lot of detail.

@BrautiProductionz

2 жыл бұрын

The level of detail is not necessarily the deciding factor when determining what sounds better...

@bluecrownvic

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrautiProductionz I can understand that when you are talking about instruments, but when we are talking about recordings OF instruments then you should aim for accuracy and not preference.

@mcmillantod

2 жыл бұрын

Obviously you've never heard a really nice turntable.

@bluecrownvic

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcmillantod Obviously you have never looked into the science. Detail is lost. A single needle cannot follow two different waveforms with much precision.

I used to have quite the record collection , And I DJ'ed alot of gigs . But I prefer just using the Internet now . the sound is amazing and you do not have to carry all them damn records !

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

You're lame

Best sound ever!

Love how it is made

@jjhack3r

2 жыл бұрын

But how it’s made doesn’t love you

Oh how the turntables have turned

That was a record player. If you take away the tone arm and the motor, then you'd have a turntable.

You figure that if they are going to the extent to make a carbon fiber arm, they would have installed it in a linear drive mechanism.

I was expecting the microwave turntable

They made some motors for vinyl analogs!

Well, well, well. How the turntables...

Now all they need is another turntable and a microphone.

@BLUELEADER78

2 жыл бұрын

Where it's at

@nicolea2839

Жыл бұрын

DJ?

my man just shrinking tubing with a soldering tip and shoving 36ga wires in to a nest all loosey goosey. Remind me never to buy one of these

Great videos

Awesome video and turntable

And it’s cool looking.

Some shady soldering and wiring. Wasted potential.

$4500 MSRP. $500 Parts & Labor *MAX* High end audio is quite the racket

@a4kata655

Жыл бұрын

50% parts and labor.... his soldering iron is 2$ from aliexpress... :) Imagine heating the insulation with the soldering iron and not hot air pistol....

All these squares make a circle

I can't believe that after all of that beautiful machining, high end tone arm and receiver assembly they top it off with a JUNK felt platter mat. Wow. I have a turntable that cost 1/3 the price of this beautiful piece of art and I still use a $40 deer hide leather mat, come on 😂

Amazing - a CNC machine cuts a circle, but can't cut the center hole??? Really??

@_Jigen

2 жыл бұрын

When you load a blank of material into a CNC, you need a known datum. In this case, a center hole is likely more convenient than ensuring any piece of acrylic they use has a precision corner.

@mp6814

2 жыл бұрын

@@_Jigen I understand that, this is what I do with a vinyl record that I CNC. In this case though, I'd mark in the software where the center is, and what circle I want, input blank's dimensions, and let the machine do the cutting - much more precisely. What they did makes little sense.

@jdmjesus6103

2 жыл бұрын

A lathe will always do round things better than a mill, it's about concentricity. That said, this turntable is all looks and no performance.

@christopherjones7191

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite bit was using an entire mill as a glorified drill press

Wait, what, did you just switch on the turntable and THEN put on the record?!

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

I often leave mine spinning when I change my records. No big deal if you do it quickly.

Where can we buy this in NYC?

Ugh. I hate the myth of vinyl having a superior sound to "compressed" digital audio. It is so silly.

Amazing Thank you .

How are coin stamps made???

💜

What a turntable.......

Oh how the turntables

oh how the turntables

As much as I love vinyl, CD was the pinnacle of audio quality.

oh you science channel, thank you so much for putting together a playlist just of how it's made. I shall sleep now.

Oh you mean that's how _that_ turntable is made. I am an independent TT/Tonearm manufacturer.

Well well well how the turn tables

The tables have turned

Well well well...

Oh how the turn tables

Informative. Useful. Calming. Inspiring. Life-changing. Enjoyable. Heart-warming. Other.

You missed the speaker part

Mix, scratch, sample

That record player costs $5800

@BLUELEADER78

2 жыл бұрын

You're actually paying for all the extra materials they wasted. I mean a 12 ounce block of aluminum shaved down to 2 ounces. That costs money.

Well well well, how the turntables

Oops, I seem to have found myself in a KZread rabbit hole again 🤦‍♂️😂

Nice ...

What brand is this?

@buzza2077

2 жыл бұрын

Wilson Benesch.

When do they install the vacuum pump that sucks the record flat to the turntable?

Once upon a time these things were very cheap now

Well, how the turntables.

oh how the turn tables are made

Neat!

how do they test the speed of the turntable?

@kimsmoke17

2 жыл бұрын

The motor is an McLennan Synchronous AC Motor. No need to “test” the speed…

3:28 cringe

"oh, how the turntables"

Nice

fuller and natural. good joke.

Well well well..

Check out DJ Craze or C2C 2004 DMC.

LET'S GO! This time vinyl stays

Still the turntable and vilyl produduce the best quality sound compared to Cassettes, CDs amd MP3s.

@alanrogs3990

7 ай бұрын

Are you high?

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