Belts for turntables
Flat belt for turntables made endless without glued seam. Due to the better material composition, slippage, synchronisation fluctuations and vibrations are avoided.
Example Thorens TD125
With a few exceptions, conventional flat belts for record players are cut from a flat material and glued together, as the production of an endless belt is significantly more expensive. Often, only one universal belt size for 50 and 60 hertz mains frequency is mentioned. Many turntables have a rotating drive wheel (pulley) with two different large ratios installed on the drive motor for adjustment. A belt that is often too short increases the tension on the bearings of the motor and the turntable, which leads to wear of the bearings and to unnecessary running noises and synchronisation fluctuations.Here you will find a long-lasting and pollutant-free drive belt in proven dimensions for your model. Please note a running-in period of a few hours, after which you will receive the smoothest and most consistent drive for your record player.
Example Thorens TD124
Can a belt sound better?
After the running-in period, the smoother running of the turntable is noticeable. The bearings work more quietly due to the lower lateral load, vibrations and noises from the drive motor are better damped. But an even more important improvement results from smoother running. Therefore, wow and flutter measurements were carried out on a Thorens TD125. This refers to the speed fluctuations during the playback of analogue sound carriers such as records.
Synchronisation fluctuations make the music sound discontinuous or washed out. A recorded 1-kHz sound with small synchronisation fluctuations (approx. 0.1%) will sound undistorted in an acoustically dead recording studio, but in a normal listening room such fluctuations are audible. The current tone will meet its echo, which has a slightly different pitch (Doppler effect). What can be heard are amplitude fluctuations, to which the ear is very sensitive. A synchronous fluctuation from 0.1% is perceptible, even though the hi-fi standard DIN 45500 allows up to 0.2%. A memory of the spatial position due to earlier reflections is disturbed.
Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_and_flutter_measurement (englisch)
Opinions: pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/today-i-am-a-small-blue-thing (englisch)
Sintered bearing oil
High-purity sintered bearing oil with viscosity 50 for turntables, tape recorders and CD players. Fully synthetic, produced without mineral oils, free of resinification and can also be used on plastics. The 3ml bottle with micro-dosing needle allows the smallest dosing quantities.• 6,80 EURadd to cart
