Costlier raw materials are offset by a significant decrease in part weight and in some cases, the elimination of metal end caps and filter housings.

Plinths for audio turntables have been made of obsidian since the 1970s ; e. g. the grayish-black SH-10B3 plinth by Technics.

High fidelity made great advances during the 1970s, as turntables became very precise instruments with belt or direct drive, jewel-balanced tonearms, some with electronically controlled linear tracking and magnetic cartridges.

While no longer as common now that turntables are absent from the cheap all-in-one stereo, this type has made a resurgence in nostalgia-marketed players.

Electrically powered turntables, whose rotational speed was governed by other means, eventually made their mechanical counterparts obsolete.

By the beginnings of the 80s, lowering of costs in microcontroller electronics made direct drive turntables more affordable.

Duffy's purpose for the audition was to found a group modeled after the popular early hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, which made fame with Superrappin on Enjoy Records and Freedom later on Sugar Hill plus Flash's incredible skills on the turntables.

James De La Cruz was added to the live line-up on turntables and keyboards, and made his debut with the band at The Palace, St Kilda, supporting Public Enemy.

Occasionally she would sing on the show but has said what she is most proud of is that she " ran all the dials, the turntables, cued the records and made all the announcements live on the air ".

" Screw had a jam box ," Adkins told Texas Monthly, " and he hooked up two turntables to it and made a fader out of the radio tuner so he could deejay.

B & O, at one time, made elaborate products that incorporated receivers, turntables, and cassette decks into a single components called " Beocentres.

When permission to broadcast live performances downstairs could not be obtained, programming went to pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes, as the music downstairs made it too loud in the studio to talk over the microphones and the vibrations made it impossible to use the station's turntables.

While high fidelity previously required large turntables, tape decks and speakers, the changing technology of music formats have made small bookshelf systems, Bose desktop radios, and iPod based speaker systems which can also produce music of high quality and serve as music entertainment systems, making large component systems again a niche high-end market.

# Two turntables or two CD decks made for DJing

By the turn of the 21st century, the turntable had become a niche product, as the price of CD players, which reproduce music free from pops and scratches, fell far lower than high fidelity tape players or turntables.

Early developments in linear turntables were from Rek-O-Kut ( portable lathe / phonograph ) and Ortho-Sonic in the 1950s, and Acoustical in the early ' 60s.

Over the first three series Milligan's demands for increasingly complex sound effects ( or ' grams ', as they were then known ) pushed the available technology and the skills of the BBC engineers to their limits — effects had to be created mechanically ( foley ) or played back from discs, sometimes requiring the use of four or five turntables running simultaneously.

* Xerxes, a series of record turntables from Roksan Audio ( UK )

One example includes Grandmaster Flash's " Adventures on the Wheels of Steel ", which was composed entirely from Flash on the turntables.

This Audiophone machine was wide and bulky, and had eight separate turntables mounted on a rotating Ferris wheel-like device, allowing patrons to select from eight different records.

They would enjoy a brief renaissance in the 21st century as they were almost a drop-in replacement for the pick-up arms of Lenco GL75 record turntables from the 1970s.

Instead, he tends to use turntables as a sampler to integrate subtle sounds and textures into the music, remisicent of electronic music, ambient, or even musique concrète from the 1940s and ' 50s.

Nevertheless, turntables, tonearms, and magnetic cartridges are still used, despite the difficulties of keeping records free from dust and the delicate set-up associated with turntables.

At dual gauge turntables, a similar arrangement is used to move the narrow gauge track from one side to a central position.

As a " hip hop band ", dependent on instruments as well as turntables, the group was also known for live shows, though sometimes the " rap-show format prevented Stetsasonic from employing the band instrumentation and studio layering that make their records so distinctive.

Often utilizing a greater variety of vinyl emulation software rather than normal turntables, " chopped and screwed " stood out from previous standards of turntablism in its slowing of the pitch and tempo (" screwing ") and syncopated beat skipping (" chopping "), among other added effects of sound manipulation.

At this time, the technology involved remained crude as the music originated from gramophone records played manually on specially-designed turntables operated at a central office location.

The influence of Mantronix: The Album is seen among other artists through the sampling of " Needle To The Groove " by Beck in the single " Where It's At " from the 1996 album, Odelay (" we've got two turntables and a microphone ..."), as well as, " Fresh Is The Word " by the Beastie Boys in the single " Jimmy James " from the 1992 album, Check Your Head (" for all the Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and the White people too ...") The Beastie Boys later sampled " Bassline " for the song " 3 the Hard Way " on their 2004 album To the 5 Boroughs.

It is caused by imperfect bearings, uneven motor windings, vibrations in driving bands in some turntables, room vibrations ( e. g., from traffic ) that is transmitted by the turntable mounting and so to the phono cartridge.

The only pieces of equipment Shadow used to produce the album were the AKAI MPC60 12-bit sampling drum machine, a pair of turntables and a borrowed-by-visiting Pro Tools setup from an early adopter of the technology, Dan " The Automator " Nakamura.

Toting the seeds of reggae from his homeland, he is credited with being the first DJ to use two turntables and identical copies of the same record to create his jams.

At the start of their Overexposed World Tour in South America, Maroon 5 introduced the newest addition in the band to the audience: their old friend Sam Farrar – from the band Phantom Planet – on guitars, backing vocals, turntables and providing other special effects.

As a goods station Bishopsgate handled very large volumes of goods from the eastern ports and was arranged over three levels with turntables and hoists allowing railway wagons to be moved individually around the station for loading and unloading.

The deck design was primarily to create the best audio production for listening, but the aim to get very solid control over wow and flutter, in addition to maximum prevention of resonance from the sound produced, meant it became the primary turntable for installation into nightclubs and other venues where the sound level precluded the use of other turntables with similar capabilities.

Wires were led to a cellar and from there to a room with five monitoring desks and recording turntables.

One way to reduce rumble is to make the turntable very heavy, so that it acts as mechanical damper or low-pass filter, but even with the best turntables a lot of rumble tends to be generated by warped records or pressing irregularities sometimes visible as ‘ bobbles ’ in the surface.

In addition it constructed turntables and other heavy equipment for the railway.

In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg.

USB turntables have a built-in audio interface, which transfers the sound directly to the connected computer.

" Rumble " is a form of noise characteristic caused by imperfections in the bearings of turntables, the platter tends to have a slight amount of motion besides the desired rotation — the turntable surface also moves up-and-down and side-to-side slightly.

When the jitter amount is very high, as in very low cost CD players ( 2ns ), the result is somewhat similar to wow and flutter, the well known problem that affected typically compact cassettes ( and in a far less evident way turntables ) and was caused by the non perfectly constant speed of the tape: the effect is similar, but here the variations have a far higher frequency and for this reasons are less easy to perceive but equally annoying.

Thus most turntables and, where they existed, rail wyes, have been taken out of use.

In addition, belt-drive turntables have much lower torque ; the belt can also slip off the motor and / or platter spindle, and are thus not suitable for turntablism.

With the decline of gramophone record vinyl discs, modern receivers tend to omit inputs for phonograph turntables, which have separate requirements of their own.

There are many " non-official " special models of the SL-1200 and SL-1210 that have appeared over the years, mainly given away as prizes for turntablism, most noteably the DMC World Championship, who have given away to the winner a pair of 24K gold plated Technics turntables.

Due to the customisation trend that has grown in the DJ community, many local events or competitions have given away custom coloured or finished Technics SL turntables.

For this reason, some turntables have a neon bulb next to the platter.

However, by 2000 she seemed to have overcome that block, releasing Stepmother City, her most accessible work to date, where she seemed to really find her stride, mixing traditional Tuvan instruments and singing with turntables and effects, placing her in a creative firmament between Yoko and Björk, but with the je ne sais quoi of Mongolia as part of the bargain.

However, the male 3. 5 mm plug can be jury rigged with " female 3. 5 mm TRS to female stereo RCA " adapters to work with stereo system components such as CD / DVD-Audio / SACD players ( although computers have CD-ROM drives of their own with audio CD support ), audio cassette players, turntables, etc.

Built into the long stage are two turntables which have a diameter of.

The supremely talented turntablists, Grand Master Roc Raida, Rob Swift, Boogie Blind, Total Eclipse and Precision have exclusively come together for this tour and across 10 turntables will leave you speechless with their unbelievable turntable skills of cutting, mixing, scratching and beat juggling.

* " Jackal & Hyde and their uncanny ability to wreak havoc in the name of electro / breaks have been in constant demand on turntables from LA to Berlin ".