Schiit Sol Turntable Sneak-Peak

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  1. The Alchemist

    The Alchemist MOT: Schiit - Here to help!

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    I have never been too much into vinyl, but the Schiit Sol is pretty amazing (I mean look at it!). I do have a small collection of vinyl, and even with a small collection, I want to get the Schiit Sol.
     
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    The Alchemist MOT: Schiit - Here to help!

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    You're probablty right @Dino , especially if I can someday get the Sol.
     
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    Is it safe to assume the motor will live closer to the platter in the production model? Is it also safe to assume its just a matter of a smaller belt?
     
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    Not to buy a turntable. There are lots of desirable gadgets in the world: do we have a use for them?

    Your desire to buy a turntable is on a par with my desire to own a welding torch. I have nothing, in particular, to weld or braze. (OK... I'd find something...)

    Given my age, I have both a deep romantic attachments to records (you call them vinyl) and... none whatsoever. In pure practical terms: welcome to the least hassle-free way of listening to music. With no experience (?) you will find it even harder than I do to keep records scratch and click free.

    If you have come to believe that vinyl sounds better, then fine... but what would you gain by converting digital music to records? If you think the digital music is in some way inferior, then all you are doing by transferring it to vinyl is getting the worst of both worlds.

    Of course you can buy this thing because it looks great. It will even cost you a lot less than a lot of turntables which don't look half as good. It is your money: how you spend it does not have to make sense.

    But, person to person, I'd say that you currently stand at the doorway to a particular kind of audiophoolery: don't go there!

    Just my advice.
     
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    I was maybe 7 years old, in 1984, and we had an old 60's style valve TV with combined turntable and large old school Altec-like speakers, all in one rectangular behemoth.

    I managed to put a recording of Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence" and play it.

    The experience was hauntingly beautiful, just me, me and the music emanating from that disc. To this day, I subconsciously yearn to get that experience back and despite my love affair with the Yggdrasil, that analog sound might be key to what I am searching.

    We'll see what the future holds. It may well be a turntable from a respected manufacturer, in a fair and used price bracket, such as VPI classic or Kuzma. Alternatively I could jump onto Schiit's Sol wonderland and call it a day.
     
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    Ahh... @Muse Wanderer, I could easily be haunted by memories of Island in the Sun (the only record I ever actually wore out) on my parents' 40's-style valve Radiogram (78RPM, auto-change deck, actual needle needle) but the truth is that it was probably a boom box in the worst sense of the word. That piece of furniture also ensured that I actually preferred BBC drama to TV (I used to say the pictures are better) from age five or six.Maybe it played a bigger part in my life than any, far superior, audio equipment of the next six decades.

    Well, record playing endured long after that, probably until about ten years ago. I venture that the only breaking-news barrier to be broken in turntables is price, by which I mean the lower end. I have some confidence that Schiit will make a very positive contribution there! :)
     
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    I am also curious about this. I'm considering a platform for my current TT per @shaizada's advice here [link]. Ideally, I'd like it to be compatible with the Sol so I don't have to replace it in the future. Would prefer something in the neighborhood of 20" x 15", but the current dimensions look a fair amount bigger.
     
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    They are still working out the details. Last I heard was a belt instead of the makeshift string seen here, which had some slippage. Now what might be interesting is the option of using two motors.
     
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    Separate 33 and 45 RPM motors?
     
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    Using a crazy serpentine belt pattern incorporating multiple motors?
     
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    Sounds like they will make different pulley sizes to start out. I'd like them to make an electronic speed controller so we can fine tune speed and switch between 33 and 45 in an instant.
     
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    Somebody's gonna do 2 motors and 2 belts, on opposite sides of the platter. And then it will escalate and come down to how many belts can be stacked on the platter rim. Maybe 4 or 5?
     
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    I use my welding torch to kill weeds.

    I'm serious. The chemicals don't work, but fire cleanses all...
     
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    Well... if you assume that a single motor has some slight inconsistencies or variations or hiccups in speeds somewhere during the rotation, then stacking motors obviously smoothes out the response. You just need to ensure that all the belts have enough elasticity in them so the energy transfers are averaged out. I mean, the theorycrafting is fine. The logistics of implementation are another matter.
     
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    The point of this TT is to experiment and have fun. I'm putting the motor pod into a slightly larger container and pouring concrete into it.
     
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    How about a three-phase motor? Isn't it going to be smoother, have more torque, be more efficient?

    Of course, unless one lives in an industrial unit (or a private house in India) then it may be a little hassle getting the three-phase supply. Surely not too much trouble for a real enthusiast?

    Easy to believe. I never had welding gear, I had a propane torch, with which I red-hot-soldered silver and gold. When my jewellery hobby waned, the torch still got used regularly, with a larger burner, for lighting the living room open fire. Which it did in a very few minutes.

    I don't know welding, I know silver/gold soldering, so by extension I guess I know how to braze, which is the same process with different materials and slightly higher temperatures.

    Heating stuff red hot is fun! But, whoa... I suppose I'm a weeee bit off topic! Unless.... trying to think of a way to make my errant turntable platter run true. With fire?
     
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    How about some epoxy/potting compound instead? If it's good enough for transformers, it's gotta be extra gooder for motors...

    I have a run of gravel along the side of my house that became overrun with weeds (it was already pretty bad when I bought the house). Killex and RoundUp didn't work, boiling water didn't work, copious salt didn't work. They all just kept growing back. So one hot day I snipped everything off close to the ground and let the sun dry it out for a couple hours, then went back with the torch and spent another couple hours charring the roots. It reeked, but I finally got the weeds under control to the point that chemicals could work.
     
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    Gasoline works well to kill weeds. Don't have to light it up. Just pour a little bit. Environmentallly damaging though. Hey, don't look at me. Learned this trick from a neighbor in tree hugging Ann Arbor.
     

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