Atreyu, to All <=-

Many of you will call it boredom... some will call it a curiosity.

I lovingly restored a BSR 2310W turntable today.

Yes. A rumored piece of shit. But, it was happily torn-down. Platter, rubber idler-wheel, cam gear, all of the linkage, *everything* was torn apart and lovingly restored to factory condition.

I'm like one of those guys on Youtube that picks up a 1960's TV set,
and spends hours documenting and restoring the CRT, the mainboard,
tubes, etc.

And I would be one of the thousands of viewers of restoration of electronic devices. I don't know why, but it's facinating to me. Videos like RMC's
Trash to Treasure videos, Techmoan, and The 8-Bit Guy are of great
interest to me.

Anyway, I even gave it a new Audio Technica magnetic cartridge/needle, aligned and calibrated, and........

................... It still sounded like a rumbling piece of shit.

Eh, too bad. I was hoping you would have been able to improve on it. C'est
la vie.

How BSR conquered the polished-turd of a turntable market in the 70's I will never understand.

Its like eating Mcdonalds. It may "go down" good, but the aftertaste remains.

It's more like, you were hungry, but you've settled for McDonald's. Sure, it'll tie you over, but you know it's cheap and not as good as others.

Sorry...

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That turntable works great for country music but not so well for Van Halen!

I was so ready to ready, Country and Western there... and a mental image of Bob's Country Bunker popped into my mind. :) We have both types...

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