The only request we had for this project was that somehow it has to be connected to the Pink Floyd.
Chassis comes from an old Rega Planar3 record player, from the times when they used thick and heavy HD particle board for their turntable models, while the drive system, platter and the motor along with it's controlling electronics, comes from an old Telefunken turntable.
Direct drive motor is actually Japanese made, big and heavy Hal type motor, and platter itself weigh 1.3kg which is not bad at all. Time and time again, Japanese made direct drive systems from the late '70s and the beginning of '80s, proved themselves as a great drive system for a good sounding turntable, when the other parts of the turntable are designed and executed well and cleverly. For the tone arm we used a generic Japanese made tone-arm salvaged from some broken and heavily abused Metzasound turntable; sadly the arm lift was not functional and horizontal arm's bearings were in a very bad condition; after precise repairing with some tailor made new parts and with the new head shell and interconnect cables, the tone arm was successfully put back in function in it's full glory.
Chassis comes from an old Rega Planar3 record player, from the times when they used thick and heavy HD particle board for their turntable models, while the drive system, platter and the motor along with it's controlling electronics, comes from an old Telefunken turntable.
Direct drive motor is actually Japanese made, big and heavy Hal type motor, and platter itself weigh 1.3kg which is not bad at all. Time and time again, Japanese made direct drive systems from the late '70s and the beginning of '80s, proved themselves as a great drive system for a good sounding turntable, when the other parts of the turntable are designed and executed well and cleverly. For the tone arm we used a generic Japanese made tone-arm salvaged from some broken and heavily abused Metzasound turntable; sadly the arm lift was not functional and horizontal arm's bearings were in a very bad condition; after precise repairing with some tailor made new parts and with the new head shell and interconnect cables, the tone arm was successfully put back in function in it's full glory.
We are very glad that our good friend Artist IG @deki_ink was again in charge for the visual appearance, providing his expertise and support on designing/painting duties for this project; He applied air-brush and different spray and hand painting techniques.
We organized a promotion of the Dark Side edition recycled turntable in the local coffee shop playing our fav records, on the February 23rd this year, which was purely accidentally just a few days before The Dark Side of the Moon 50th Anniversary (March the 1st 1973); so the proud purchaser was even more pleased and happy with his new recycled turntable dedicated to the Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon LP record.
