enframed wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 2:21 pm

major wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 12:29 pm

I love my Humminguru!

How loud are these things? I had a Nitty Gritty I was borrowing for a while, it was super loud.

Loud enough that the cat hates it, quiet enough to crank a record and not hear it.

Maybe this is the spot?

Anyone use a record weight/stabilizer on their TT? There's a place you can walk in my living room where you're almost guaranteed to skip the record, which isn't ideal. I don't know if these weights are snake oil, or if they're just gonna run down the motor. Mine is a belt-drive Pioneer PL-117D if that makes a difference. If you believe, I'm all ears on a recommendation. Also, curious as to the. weight of your weight if'n you have one. I was eyeing one that was only a pound, but I don't really know what's what.

I have used a weight for years. It does seem to help with warped records, but I don't think it will help with the skip. You probably need an isolation platform.

Kerble -

Any record player that rests on anything that sits on the floor is subject to this skipping issue, as well as the dreaded bass hum* when you pump up the volume. The problem is sound moving from your speakers through the floor through whatever its resting on to your turntable to that tiny spot at the end of your record needle. A weight will hold your record in place but won't help stop this sound transmission. You'll also find that a soft spot on the floor that's coupled to your turntable's home (like a floor joist that runs to your turntable's table) will cause problems.

You can try to interrupt this passage by getting some isolation things - getting your speakers off the floor or floating (to various degrees) your turntable or the thing it rests on. But the most foolproof way is to get your turntable on a wall-mounted shelf. This has the added benefit of opening up your listening room to dancing without threatening a record-skip.

Hope this helps, and you are my homie.

= Justin

* I am not talking about Jeff Dimpsey.

How do you vinyl adjacent... really interesting story.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/artic ... ff-records

I own a real copy of Ænima, by Tool, which is worth a significant amount of money. So it's telling it was one of the counterfeit albums found in the raid.

"top 10 list of the artists whose bootleg and counterfeit albums have been most frequently removed from online platforms (or “delisted”). The No 1 position, somewhat surprisingly, is held by the veteran goth outfit the Sisters of Mercy, with 695 delistings. Then comes David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Joy Division and Pink Floyd – followed by the Cure, the Clash, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead and Iron Maiden."

Fascinating.

kerble wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 3:11 pm Maybe this is the spot?

Anyone use a record weight/stabilizer on their TT? There's a place you can walk in my living room where you're almost guaranteed to skip the record, which isn't ideal. I don't know if these weights are snake oil, or if they're just gonna run down the motor. Mine is a belt-drive Pioneer PL-117D if that makes a difference. If you believe, I'm all ears on a recommendation. Also, curious as to the. weight of your weight if'n you have one. I was eyeing one that was only a pound, but I don't really know what's what.

Tweak alert: This dude has some cool stuff at a good price. I use a few of them and it does seem to make a difference.

https://herbiesaudiolab.com

You might try something he makes to absorb vibrations.

The other thing might be to try not to be such a fucking brute. Maybe take a ballet class.

enframed wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 4:17 pm "top 10 list of the artists whose bootleg and counterfeit albums have been most frequently removed from online platforms (or “delisted”). The No 1 position, somewhat surprisingly, is held by the veteran goth outfit the Sisters of Mercy, with 695 delistings. Then comes David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Joy Division and Pink Floyd – followed by the Cure, the Clash, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead and Iron Maiden."

Fascinating.

I'd assume like a lot of bands from the mid 80s to 90s the vinyl was very limited. All of my high value albums were purchased in the mid 90s. Even albums that have subsequently been reissued hold their value.

Gramsci wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 11:14 am

enframed wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 4:17 pm "top 10 list of the artists whose bootleg and counterfeit albums have been most frequently removed from online platforms (or “delisted”). The No 1 position, somewhat surprisingly, is held by the veteran goth outfit the Sisters of Mercy, with 695 delistings. Then comes David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Joy Division and Pink Floyd – followed by the Cure, the Clash, Led Zeppelin, Motörhead and Iron Maiden."

Fascinating.

I'd assume like a lot of bands from the mid 80s to 90s the vinyl was very limited. All of my high value albums were purchased in the mid 90s. Even albums that have subsequently been reissued hold their value.

It was, yeah. So many records I should have bought back then, especially Brit-Pop stuff, some of which made it to the USA. But I don't recall there being a dearth of Sisters records back then, it's when I got all the ones I currently have and there were plenty more. Maybe I was just lucky wrt where I was at the time...

There were a lot of those Sisters maxi-singles floating around in the US. I haven't seen any lately, but every shop had them 10-15 years ago.