The Mellotron Group

Nic,

That sounds interesting.  I don't remember hearing about that.  I wonder how well it tracked the groove
using 80's technology?  That's about $1500 US today...I don't know what the exchange rate was back then.
Interesting......

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From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nic Lewis
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 1:41 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Marantz 2230 restoration



Talking of odd designs (wooden arms, B&O lateral tracking) does anyone recall a TT that used a pin point laser device to scan the track and the reflected light was received and converted to electrical signal (of course)? A sort of analogue bar code reader. It was marketed in the early 80s and as far as I recall cost about 1000 quid here.

Big selling point was no wear on the vinyl. Maybe a great idea a bit to early and overtaken by the digital revolution?

Best
Nic

At 03:38 02/09/2011, john barrick wrote:


I remember a turntable with a wooden tone arm, didn't know the name.  My favorites just for looking cool were the flying saucer looking Dennons in the mid/late '70s and the Micro Seiki that had mounts for three different tone arms.  I was on a budget and stuck with Technics DD tables.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Gary Brumm <gabru@comsec.net<mailto:gabru@comsec.net>> wrote:

Does anyone remember the Weathers turntable?  I had one and it came with a wooden tonearm carved for a specific cartridge.
It was 33 only and had two synchronous motors and a mercury switch.  It would come up to stable speed in about a quarter turn.
  --
john barrick

*Leo got it right the first time*
*then he added a second pickup and got it righter*