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"Submerged Turntable" - $tevie - 02-17-2014
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/02/submerged-turntable-by-evan-holm/
http://evanholm.com/the-making-ofsubmerged-turtables/
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - mrbigstuff - 02-17-2014
and Christian Marclay will put that in his next performance.
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - eustacetilley - 02-17-2014
It's hard to tell, but it looks like the cartridge is a Stanton 400 V3.
(It isn't a Pickering... but I can't be Shure...)
The Stanton 681EEE was the pinnacle of a certain kind of phono cartridge; like the best Empires and Pickerings of that time, it came with a lovely little box. There was quite a variation in the boxes. All 681EEEs came with stripchart of tested frequency response; but the ones with the gray leather boxes with 24K gold lettering are Le Creme De La Creme. I have two.
There was also the very funny Box Game. Say that you just bought an Empire 500EE. The guy behind the counter was very helpful; he would install and balance the cartridge for nothing. He would bring out a nice little box with the cartridge inside, along with a bunch of funny little screws and a funny little screwdriver.
After installation, he would casually ask if you wanted the box, and most didn't. The little box would go into the back, a new Empire cartridge would be pulled from a carton of 100, and placed in the little box for the next customer. Just in case, the were always a couple of spare little boxes.
The markup on a 681EEE wasn't much- only around 100%. But as for those Empires... They listed for around $30. You could always get a deal on one- $25 was easy.
A carton of 100 Empire 500EEs cost us around $600. (Do the math.)
Now as for the platter... BIC 1000? It's a lightweight, from the era when mass no longer mattered much, because servo-control ruled. And as for the water? Nothing new there. There were any number of systems that sprayed water, or even sillier, liquid Freon on the album surface so as to... it doesn't much matter- it was all marketing.
Now as to the video... Cut a minute of loading branches into the truck, (That was really dull.), add a minute of clueless driving around SF, do a little more tightening here and there... and show just exactly how they drove that platter underwater... BIC motors would do it with a little push; Garrard and DUAL motors would just generate a lot of steam before somebody got electrocuted.
Eustace
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - WHiiP - 02-17-2014
They must have glued a ton of weight to that tonearm . . .
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - wurm - 02-17-2014
Looks like someone's answer to "Can you clean up this audio?"
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - clay - 02-17-2014
good to see the hipster spirit alive and well!
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - Harbourmaster - 02-18-2014
My 1219 never gets thirsty... they must not be feeding their turntable a steady diet of New-Age Music.
Re: "Submerged Turntable" - decay - 02-18-2014
meh.
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/more-furniture-collectibles/decorative-objects/mitchell-transcriptor-turntable-from-clockwork-orange/id-f_333935/
"Oh Bliss! Bliss and Heaven! Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied I knew such lovely pictures!"-What Malcolm McDowell said as Alex in Stanley Kubricks "A Clockwork Orange" as he listened to Beethoven on a Mitchell turntable identical to this one. Designed in 1964 and completely hand made.
The original from the film is in the Museum Of Modern Art, in the permanent design collection. A striking object.