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Reading that damn speed strobe disc

Confession time. I can't read mine. I turn all the lights off, and use my TT light, which is one of those overpriced Litt-Lites. Mine is the one that comes with my WT Amadeus table. I think the guy from Jersey who does the Technics tables offers an Incandescent light with his Speed Strobe disc. Do these make the difference, in being able to see what i am supposed to see.
fjn04
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mrmb
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I've owned one of these for several years and couldn't recommend it more. It always works like a champ with the lights on or off: http://www.musicdirect.com/p-7206-kab-speedstrobe.aspx
larryi
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What you need, in order to read a strobe disc, is a light source that is flickering to the 60 hz frequency of the power line. I don't know what kind of bulb you have in your light source, but, you should try a different kind of light. Incandescent bulbs do flicker enough to make the strobe markings visible (the image will look a bit hazy, but, you should see a faint pattern of still or slowly rotating lines. Flourescent bulbs tend to be better at bringing out the pattern. A hard time seeing the pattern is more an issue of lighting than problems with the strobe disc itself.
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