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Oi Oi! LP12 serial 00091 has just turned up on the’Bay. Lack of back story suggests a deceased estate sale. Item number 126416868574

Don’t want to try it, but the torque is immense.

It was done decades ago by Philco, but the miniaturisation and refinement was relatively recent by DS Audio, a division of a computer company involved in the development of the optical mouse. Toshiba, Kenwood and a few others did them in the 1980s but different operating standards resulted in an...

It’s simpler than you think.

It’s a DS Audio 003.

Technics SL1000R

Hi Mac!

Fab little things. I'd never be without a pair.

Cheers! Are we up and running again?

“Hamish” is simply the Scottish version of “James”.

Not sure about ‘wanting to bash Ivor’ per se, but his accounts of the genesis of the LP12 are various, varied and inconsistent. What do you think is the definitive story cre009?

Or the other account from Ivor that Jim Kerr of Kerr McCosh came up with the idea.

“Robertson Deck” 11

It also implies that the ‘eleventh’ revision wasn’t as good as the twelfth. Which is incorrect. The RD11 had actually been marketed by C & J Walker and sold before the LP12.