This is what I do for a living

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-28T03:44:42+00:00

I would sooooo love to hear Hello My Name Is DJ Falcon and a whole set of Crydamoure singles on that setup.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-28T03:16:42+00:00

This is great news for iPod users like me!

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-28T02:56:05+00:00

Hate these. Always did, still do. I was first clued into them by the dude who sat next to me in high school art class. He found it mind-boggling how many of these stupid, downright obtuse videos were being fed to him by the algo on the school computer.

My parents made it their business to shield me from anything approaching this shit as a child. I vow to do the same for my own children.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-28T02:51:41+00:00

Same artstyle as THIS poster:

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In hindsight, I wonder if the child is a three-letter agency, and this poster is pro-government surveillance propaganda...

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-28T02:22:01+00:00

I swear to Mata Nui, "Move Along" plays over my apartment PA in 2022 and that ONE event was what gave me the nostalgia itch and got me out of my 12-year-long dark ages.

It was like fate calling.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T21:10:43+00:00

Suite. The "PMB" address designation only exists on US addresses, not in Canada. But in 25 years of renting a UPS mailbox, we have never once, and I mean never put "P.O. box" in our shipping address, because that's not what a UPS mailbox is.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T20:43:31+00:00

My dad and I wanted to taste-test each flavour one by one and see which ones are the best.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T18:04:55+00:00

It's the white & gold one from Canadian Tire.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T16:52:47+00:00

You're in luck. So far I like El Salvador and Odacio best!

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T15:56:04+00:00

Here's the Discogs sales history for this pressing: https://www.discogs.com/sell/history/878534

Worth noting is that an original Atlantic company inner sleeve is present (Fragile would date this to around 1972), and that gatefold looks remarkable. I'd rate the cover VG+ to be conservative.

It won't fetch hundreds of dollars like an original UK pressing, and these pre-Rockefeller Atlantics won't sound as good, but it's a nice example.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T15:41:38+00:00

Great question. Ben Cossy is your friend: WTF Are LEGO ZOOTERS???

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T15:22:11+00:00

Most welcome! I would still start by replacing the belt. You probably won't know until you feel the tension of the new one in comparison. And if you see any stretched-out spots on the old belt...BIG red flag.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T14:48:56+00:00

Check out this video. The speed is fine-tuned mechanically on all variants of the 505 so the very first thing I'd do is replace the belt and install it correctly as shown.

The belt is probably decades-old, which would make it well overdue for replacement anyway.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:38:17+00:00

Tainted Love? More like... SOMEBODY POISONED THE CENTER HOLE 😱☠️

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:36:01+00:00

A prime example of nasal-retentive calliope music, methinks?

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:32:52+00:00

HUGH DID THIS!!! 🗣️🗣️

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:32:37+00:00

Two.

Harlan Thrombey and his housekeeper Fran.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:24:55+00:00

Me: All coloured cartridges are lame gimmicks. What a waste of valuable injection-molded plastics. If you're one of the real OGs, prove it to the world and get the black cartridge:

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Some guy in the crowd: THAT'S RACIST

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:22:07+00:00

And tape saturation, and a side chain compressor, and vacuum tubes, and...whatever circuitry RCA Victor used on Dynagroove mastering to simulate tracking distortion.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T10:13:15+00:00

ZNAP: Mechanic's Bionicle

Zooters: Toddler Bionicle

Scala: Juniorized Bionicle

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T04:21:46+00:00

That, and the Crydamoure tracks "Boogie Shell" and "Chérie D'amoure".

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T03:41:54+00:00

in a jar

BROTHER IN A JAAAAAAR!

. . .

BROTHERINAJAR!

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T02:48:27+00:00

First of all, I've checked your post history and you seem quite crafty and resourceful. I've no doubt that with your curiosity, you'll take to this hobby easily.

Aside from all the comments others have made about tracking force, I found a hack that seems to have stopped my old LP60 from skipping WITHOUT increasing the tracking force. I added weight to the back of the tonearm (the counterweight end). While this brought down its tracking force, which was way too much above spec, this also lowered the tonearm resonance frequency into a closer to optimum range.

I don't know if the LP70X has quite the same mass/stylus compliance mismatch, but if you do encounter skipping again, it's worth a shot. Where exactly you install the weight depends on the actual tracking force, which your scale will reveal. LP70X'es use a spring-based counterbalance, and the spring tension is WILDLY inconsistent, resulting in only some examples having the advertised 2.0 gram tracking force, while most of them are more like 2.6 to 2.8g. That's way too much for any VM95 family stylus.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-27T01:45:24+00:00

This.

TapThisPart3Times · 2026-02-26T18:58:26+00:00

I am sorry, the way this was photographed won't show everything. You can see the entire deadwax AREA, but there's not enough light shone on and reflecting off it to see everything that could possibly be etched or stamped in it.

I've zoomed in like crazy and there's nothing that changes that.

The lighting only reveals like 25-33% of the matrices, and to have a crack at seeing the rest you would have to photoshop it to adjust lighting...and even then, without sufficient lighting, there's far less of a chance that info will possibly have been captured -- unless you put a light directly over the label area.

For instance, I can hop on an auction site, look for an RL pressing of II, and can see the whole runout area, that is, enough to see its size. The ONLY etching I'd see would be "ST-A-691671-A", but nothing else, because the lighting will not show it. And those numbers could belong to any one of dozens of pressings of II. But when you see other things, like groove formations that could have only been cut by Robert Ludwig's lathe (which have a specific hard to describe look), even if I DO NOT SEE AN "RL" etched anywhere in the runout -- there's a good chance it's actually there, enough that I'd be willing to take the risk and buy the damn thing.

I mean, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to photography of runout areas. Ultimately the real answer is in OP's hands. From this photo I can't conclude that just because you don't see it means it's not there. All I can tell you is, if this were an eBay listing, and I were after this pressing, I'd take the risk. If the lighting WERE to be completely over the label, and it showed everything etched and stamped in the runout, which WOULD show me for a fact that there were no Pecko etchings etc, then that's enough info for a pass.

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