Sunday the first of August, it was hot yesterday daytime high of 30°C compared to 25°C all week.
10h00 – Found some mouse dropping when laying down all the wine so had a good clear out of the garde manger (pantry) and the cupboards near the TV and hi-fi. It would appear that someone had been living in there for a while but no rodent was found, thank you cats. Doing all this prompted me to get the new Project Genie 3 turntable working, as in the cupboard I found the QED RIAA pre-amplifier I had been looking for. Only my big Sony has a phono/turntable/RIAA input, so I needed this for the other set-ups and to rip to mp3 or ogg. I not sure that you can rip analogue vinyl ?
14h00 – The Project Genie 3 was quite easy to set up …
- A firm level (I mean level, spirit level job) surface.
- The instruction were clear and there was a small balance in the box for setting up tracking weight.
- Anti-skating was easy but with only 3 setting, a tiny weight on a piece of fishing line just dying to get lost by easily getting displaced.
The deck is so simple and mechanical, I love it.
Project Genie 3.
Having got the mechanics right I pluged in the cables to my old Aiwa setup on the mezzanine via the QED preamp which was powered by a Netgear 12v dc power supply from a recently failed ethernet switch. Put on Scott Joplin Rags by Joshua Rifkin on the Non-Such label, allegedly the master was a direct-cut on a lathe in the recording studio. WOW, yes its good. Even got some crackles back. Nostagia eh!
Project Genie 3.
