TW Acustic Raven One owners

I got it off ebay. Don't remember the seller but I have a lifetime's supply for less than $30 shipped from the UK. I used Doug Deacon's method if you search this forum but I use clear instead of metalic. Didn't want to mess with etching acid. Also 1/4" is the widest you can use since the spindle is low profile. To save you a bit of time,...it's EXACTLY 105cm. You will need some sort of strobe to re-calibrate the speed.

Acee
What were Jeffery's comment's of the Decca with the Ortofon arm?
No doubt you are thrilled.

A few years ago I had a interest in trying Decca out and got side tracked by another brand, never did get to listen to one.

I understand the Decca Jubilee is one Hell of a good cartridge, far different from years ago.

Very musical, detailed, focused and fast with explosive low end that is only equaled by the best in digital play back.

Ducatirider,
Your mention of it has re-newed my interest.

I have to get on this tape drive, been well aware of it for sometime ,just too busy with other thing's.

Did you get the tape on the first try without crunching it?

I would need a box full and at lease minimum half dozen or so attempts to get it on right with my mitt's.

I can't really remember how many tries it took but once you get it, it's easy. Line it up on a post it note and diagonally splice it, then use non stretchy tape. (I just use clear scotch tape that it thicker than normal). The key is to cut it exactly 105 cm. Too little and it won't fit and too loose and it won't track.

BTW, I fiddled with a Decca Jubilee once but my arm was too light for it. It needa a high mass arm. Can't speak for the Ortofon though.

Stiltskin,
Jeffery loaded the Denon mono first and i was psyched and he was surprised that it sounded as good as it did and we were digging it, but the second the Decca touched the Boozoo Chavez record his ear perked and his eye brows lifted he heard it before i did.
i couldn't really comprehend it at first it was like opening a window.
he said later over the phone it gave you that mono hit but fresh.
and Ducatirider, i could mount the denon myself its a good easy tracker but i could see that the decca has to be exact.

'BTW, I fiddled with a Decca Jubilee once but my arm was too light for it. It needa a high mass arm. Can't speak for the Ortofon though.'

I've not used a recent Decca, but still have my Decca Gold garrot Brothers and Maroon from the early 80s. I used to sell then in the late 70s/early 80s. In those days, we used them in damped unipivots, which in those days were low to medium mass
(Hadcock/ Mayware, Decca arms). They didn't like arms with rigid bearings (presumably due to the near-zero vertical compliance). I still use my Deccas occasionally in both my old Hadcock and my Schroeder Model 2.

Charlie