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  • The Altmann DIY turntable and tone-arm are built from such parts.

    Turntable Built From Motorbike Parts | Impact Lab 2009

  • In addition to anti-skate, switchable phono/line-level outputs and a cool curved tone-arm, this unit comes with a 1/8 stereo line input which is handy for digitizing other analog sources like audio tapes.

    Digitize those old vinyl records. Easily. | Sync Blog 2007

  • Woman with the golden tone-arm from the shitty of big soldiers, you put the needle in the Algroove.

    He Swung and He Missed | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast 2006

  • Absolutely spectacular gallery of Swiss-made art-clocks and other sculpture (including a CD-player retrofitted on a turntable, with a laser-equipped tone-arm!).

    Boing Boing: February 9, 2003 - February 15, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Early record players sometimes meant having to place a nickel or quarter on the tone-arm.

    Boy Genius Report Dave 2010

  • The Altmann DIY turntable and tone-arm are built from such parts.

    Impact Lab 2009

  • Megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes,. wav files .. mp3's, iPods, flash drives - all well and good, but does anything compare to the warm ambience of listening to your favorite 12-inch vinyl 33 1 / 3 rpm platter spinning on a smooth turntable, with diamond stylus, ceramic cartridge, and lightweight tone-arm doing their thing?

    PlugInMusic.com 2008

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