With luxury turntables reaching prices well into six figures, a salient question arises: What about the quality of the albums themselves? Even the most ardent vinyl collector has lost a few records to warping over the years.
That's where the "DFV-1 Record Flattener" will prove its worth as long as it stays true to its name. The device, made by Tokyo-based Furutech, claims to be a "one-stop, one-button solution" that uses a "carefully controlled heating and cooling cycle it flatten all your warped records, even those with only slight irregularities that still unsettle your cartridge causing mistracking."
The Flattener doesn't come cheap at $1,480, but it's all relative when you're spending $150,000 to play your records. Besides, as fellow Craver Rafe Needleman suggests, maybe you can use it to make Eggos too.
Originally posted by bas
we're just rolling in that sweet sweet Beatport chedda SON. I PUT DIAMONDS IN MY SALT SHAKER SO I CAN HAVE CRUSHED DIAMONDS ON MY FOOD...it makes my dookie twinkle!!!
Sep-21-2007 15:07
DiscoStew
Nees more cowbell
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Dirty South
Really?
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Sep-21-2007 23:02
Trance Nutter
........... I got nothing
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
luxury turntables?
Are the covered with velvet or something? And six figures, hot diggity I'm selling my TTs now, for the bargain price of $99,000 each. Get em while they're cheap peoples!
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Sep-22-2007 00:27
placebo
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Registered: Jun 2003
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hahahah
or i could just use a FUCKING IRON.
what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.
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Sep-25-2007 03:47
Saint John
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quote:
Originally posted by placebo
hahahah
or i could just use a FUCKING IRON.
what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.
wait are u serious
Sep-25-2007 05:09
tintin11
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Toronto
quote:
Originally posted by placebo
hahahah
or i could just use a FUCKING IRON.
what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.
lmao
Sep-25-2007 13:28
placebo
501xx
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
quote:
Originally posted by Oreoh142
wait are u serious
yeah, after you iron them it also makes all the eq's and whatnot more pronounced, works like a charm.
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Sep-25-2007 13:29
JD8180
I choose noise.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Miami, Florida USA
quote:
Originally posted by placebo
yeah, after you iron them it also makes all the eq's and whatnot more pronounced, works like a charm.
i do that, too. but first i preheat the oven to 300 degrees then set the records in bake for about 10 min (no more than that!) that way when i go to iron, everything is more pliable and fixes into place a LOT easier
Sep-25-2007 14:38
placebo
501xx
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
quote:
Originally posted by JD8180
i do that, too. but first i preheat the oven to 300 degrees then set the records in bake for about 10 min (no more than that!) that way when i go to iron, everything is more pliable and fixes into place a LOT easier
That's a good tip, I usually cover mine in brown gravy (McCormick FTW) before baking them though...so when I'm at the club, not only am I dropping MAD BEATS, but it smells like mom's cooking too.
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Sep-27-2007 22:39
MERiDiAN5i2
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Texas, USA
If you coat the center spindle hole with blood-of-some-dead-etard before baking, it makes them easier to beatmatch
Sep-28-2007 02:08
CReddick
balls
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Los Angeles (Burbank), CA
Right... or I could just buy the god damn record again for $12. ok...
Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2
If you coat the center spindle hole with blood-of-some-dead-etard before baking, it makes them easier to beatmatch
I've noticed that before playing a gig, I'll sacrifice a virgin to the "God of Wax" for good luck. Every time I've done that, I've done well.
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