[BC] Turntable arms

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:51 PM 7/19/2005, Jeff Johnson wrote: -------

>I had a KIT Gary viscous damped tone arm in college in 1962. 
>Remember Empire cartridges?? Sorry I sold my original AR turntable. 
>Very pretty.

My first turntable was an AR with a Shure M44 cartridge. Simple 
elegance. I sold stereo equipment in Harvard Square. I upgraded to an 
Empire. I lived in Cambridge, so I had to buy local. Also had an AR 
integrated amp with AR-3A speakers. The amp replaced an HH Scott unit 
and my tuner was the HH Scott with the round lighted dial. I finally 
replaced the tuner with the Marantz model just below the 10B. I 
recall spending hours at Tweeter where all the famous folks went. 
Henry Kloss, Roy Allison and other names I've forgotten would use it 
as a coffee house to talk shop. I worked for a competitor up the 
street, Minute Man Radio. If they had known I was consorting with the 
enemy they would have fired me.

>Nostalgia - not! An LP seemed to end at just the wrong romantic 
>moment. Bought a Dual changer to cure that.

I never had a changer. Too much of an audiophile snob. I found 
Classical music usually solved the problem.

>iPod's just don't seem romantic. No glowing KT-88's.

iPods are just utility. Nothing you can build a relationship with.

Rich

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