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Does your Turntable stack records? Do you use this feature?

Does your Turntable stack records? Do you use this feature?

  • My Turntable does not allow record stacking.

    Votes: 105 55.6%

  • My Turntable does allow record stacking but I don't use it.

    Votes: 35 18.5%

  • My Turntable does allow record stacking and I do use this feature at least sometimes.

    Votes: 49 25.9%
  • Total voters
    189
It sure is. Somebody was sleeping at the wheel in the labeling dept. It is so off center that it actually covers some grooves of the last song on each side of the lp. :yikes:

tcdriver said:
Does your Turntable stack records? Do you use this feature? Yes and Yes!

Playing stacked SP records:
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Playing stacked 45's:
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Playing stacked LP records:
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I don't wanna get off topic here, but boy oh boy, your albums and turntable make mine look like they were dug up with the Atari ET video games in the landfill. So pristine!! My RC88/4 project has been put on hold. Yours is an inspiration for me to get mine looking and working as nice. :bowdown: I think I made this same statement to you a couple of years ago. Time is in short supply these days.

I feel that the performance and sound quality of a well made changer can be on par with any single play table in the same price range. I mean once the stylus is on the record all the changing mechanisms are decoupled anyway, and you're left with your tonearm on its bearings. So you're left with what, in essence, is a single play table, until the end of the record is reached and the cycle repeats.

The same thing can be said for fully automatic tables that are not changers. Once the needle is on the record, it is pretty much the same, as the auto mechanisms are decoupled. Right? I am just trying to rebut the belief that all automatic turntables do not and can not produce quality sound. Of course all of the automated "stuff" does not add to higher sound quality, but it also does not take away from it if executed properly.

I don't know about you, but I have seen some folks place a manual table's stylus on a record and/or remove a stylus from a record in a way that would make anyone cringe. Thank heavens for cueing mechanisms.
 
jeffpaletz said:
Obviously the label is not centered on the record. Thanks for the picture. I had one record like that where the label was so far off that it was into the lead out grooves of the record as yours is too. Are you able to play the record all the way to the end? Is Garrard even still in business?
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Hi jeffpaletz. On that album, I am not able to play it all the way to the end (but that is okay since I have the same album, but with the label properly centered). Garrard, sadly, is no longer in business, and hasn't been for a while. But they certainly left their mark.
 
I have 3 tables currently, and none of them stack, or are automatic in any way.
Regards,
Jim
 
Grew up with changers from the late fifties and early sixties and modded them like everyone else to get the best sound possible. Changed to a turntable because of improved sound.....conveinience is a bit of a slippery slope that leads to ineffective methods of caring for vinyl.

Besides...

Getting up to flip the record is a good cardiovascular exercise, keeps the juices flowing !
 
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getter365 said:
...I don't know about you, but I have seen some folks place a manual table's stylus on a record and/or remove a stylus from a record in a way that would make anyone cringe. Thank heavens for cueing mechanisms.
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In the advertisements for the Garrard RC 88 record changers, one of the claims was: "Record handling gentler than the surest human hand"
 
The only stacker table I ever used was my parents Zenith console, the only good thing I can say about it was it, a nice piece of furniture. After that experience I wasn't interested in another "stacker". Since then all my tables have been single play.
 
Yeah I have a stacker and I use it. The infamous MCS-6800 computer controlled one with a remote. The one that raises the records with a piston that comes up from the center of the platter so the records don’t fall, they’re slowly lowered. It can even raise the entire stack to restart. Then with the sensor it can find a certain track on a certain record. I could even program it to play different tracks on six different records, but I usually just play the entire side. It's never wrecked a record yet, but still I'd have a hard time putting some rare LP on it. It does seem with stackers, things have the possibility of going horribly wrong. But I still love it for playing all the average condition records. It's got a nice ADC cart in it and sounds pretty darn good.


I find it oddly satisfying to play and switch records by remote control (that is a big heavy ultrasonic remote with twenty buttons).
 
I'm in the midst of getting one restored from Ring Audio in Toronto. Likely it will be a Garrard 3000 (or AT-5). It will be used with old K-Tel records and extra copies of older LPs I have. Just for fun. I'm really missing having a changer.
 
<---- Stacking is fun on a 1960 Motorola console. I wouldn't subject my good records to the ceramic cartridge but have tons of vintage Herb Alpert, Ventures and similar that's a hoot to spin while house cleaning on Saturdays. Also have a few hundred 45's that are really fun when you pay no attention to what you grab and stack. "B" sides can really surprise too.

K-tel was made for stackers!

It's just a different experience, vintage music on vintage equipment like they used to do it.
 
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I have a Dual 1216 in decent condition. It is not my main table, I used it in bedroom in my overseas apartment. I stacked up some mood music LPs just for the fun of it. I really don't care about possible damages on those records:). It also create some wow effects some people walking into the room as most people in this side of continent seldom saw turntable in their lives let alone a stacked one!:p.
 
Have not owned a record player that stacks since the early 1970's (teenage years). If I would buy a vintage table today, I would not stack records like back in the day.


Above is one of the record players (stackable) that I played during my youth. It's also spinning Vinyl that I use to play around that time ... Bowie & Grand Funk records.
 
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Been occasionally stacking on my Dual 1219. Mostly duplicate copies and records in VG condition or worse. None seem any worse after being stacked. Not afraid to stack good records because my changer works good. My core Tangerine Dream albums are stacked probably once a month for a couple of years now. Sound as good as when I got them. One thing I notice is that after stacking a few sides, when you go back to just one record the auto start and stop functions seem to work smoother. :smoke:
 
I have a Technics SL-1360 changer with both 45 and 33 stacking spindles. I have the original spindle kit box too.

I keep it as a novelty. I've used it and it works just as designed. It's fun to show off. It's a solidly built turntable.

I don't stack records as a rule, though. No strong opinion on it, I just usually only take one record out at a time.
 
Over the years I have owned 3 turntables that stacked records and three that didn't. The Garrard was the weakest of the three, the Miracord the most trouble free, and the Dual the best performer. After seeing for myself the potential for record damage I sold the last auto turntable in 1969 and have never used one since. That said I would have loved to owned a TD 224, just to say I had one.

The thought of one disc landing on top of the other while spinning potentially grinding plastic against plastic with the possibility of dirt and dust being transferred and ground into both side of the mating LP's is not my idea how to treat in some cases irreplaceable highly valuable sources of artistry captured on those LP's.
 
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I like changers and have several, although I play only a small subset of my record colection on them. In this video, you can see the horrible damage done by repeated playing on a ceramic cart 1950 changer. ;)

 
In my TT stash have two stackers. I have a Dual 1218 with a spindle but have yet to try it, someday I will. I also have a Technics SL1650 without a stacking spindle which I might add sometime. I would use the stackers for my less than perfect albums & 45's.
 
I have two different "stacker" Technics. SL-1360 and a SL D-5.

I picked up a SL-1700 MK2 and will part with one of the stackers.

Which one would you keep? SL 1360 or the D-5
 
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