Turnable database with TimeLine

Hi Peter,
One thing I noticed on a couple of your videos, as you had mentioned, the red line is sometimes shorter. Do you see this when watching it live? I suspect that the occasional blip in the red line on the video is due to the shutter speed of the video camera. Do you know if you are recording at 24 fps, 30, fps or 60 fps? If you can, try changing the shutter speed and see if the issue is gone.

Hello Tony, Those were my thoughts also. I'm using an iPhone and I don't know what the fps rate is. I'll look into it. However, I returned the TimeLine to Albert Porter on Tuesday because I had recorded the various turntables around me. I don't really notice this effect when watching live. They just look like red laser dashes blinking along.

I'm sure in a more controlled setting with an excellent microphone and professional camera, one could perhaps even hear slight variations in speed on certain recordings over the video.

I'm just hoping other upload videos to add to this database.

Perhaps you should buy a tonearm with hydraulic action lifting and lowering...as all my six arms have?
No human can lower the cartridge more gently that these.... :-)

Halcro,
Perhaps I wasn't clear in my post. I actually do have a tonearm with a dampened lowering mechanism (VPI JMW-Classic), but the cartridge still has a distance to travel once it's released. If you simply flip the lever (as I have seen some audiophiles do it regularly), the stylus will still hit the record surface with some force, albeit weaker, IMO too hard to ignore and repeat with every flip of the record. I release the mechanism very close to the record to minimize the strain on the suspension. I thought every audiophile adhered to this practice with lowering mechanisms.

Hi Halcro,

What piece of music is playing in your Raven AC-2 video?

Forthcoming is the Saskia and at least one unlikely vintage turntable. Of interest to me is how the turntables behave at the very start when the record is cued. It would be nice to see that in the videos, too.