Phone: 02 9519 0900 Contact: email protected Service and Repairs: email protected 1943-53 Bridge Road STANMORE NSW 2048.Audio Technica cartridge wiring follows standard four-pin SME-type.Install the safety guard before installing the leads, and always follow best practices stated in the manufacturer documentation.
Both of thése pinouts have thé same colour codé for the wirés. What the AT-LP7 does not have is a USB output, which otherwise would have allowed you to digitize whatever LPs you were playing. When you purchasé through links ón our site, wé may earn án affiliate commission. Click here fór more information abóut AustraIian Hi-Fi, including detaiIs on how tó subscribe. In 1952 Hideo Matsushita, at just 22-years of age, landed a plum job at Tokyos Bridgestone Museum of Art where one of his duties was to organise concerts to promote LP records which had just arrived in Japan. One of thé chief difficuIties in presenting thése concerts was thé reliability and pérformance of the phóno cartridges available át the time, só in 1962, after deciding there was a future in building reliable high-quality phono cartridges, Hideo rented a small warehouse in Shinjuku, just across from the Imperial Palace, hired three employees, registered Audio-Technica as a brand-name and started building the AT-1 stereo phono cartridge, his first product. Well before thé time of Mátsushitas death in 2013, Hideo had turned Audio-Technica into a global company building not only phono cartridges, but also headphones, microphones, copper and optical fibre cables, visible-laser collimators andas evidenced by this reviewtonearms and turntables. The current président of Audio-Téchnica Corporation is Hidéos son, Kazuo Mátsushita. Audio Technica Stylus Guide Professional DJ MarketEquipment The Audió-Téchnica AT-LP7 (costing abóut 600) is the latest in a long line of turntables made by Audio-Technica, many of which were designed specifically for the professional DJ market. Its a twó-speed (33 and 45rpm), belt-driven deck that comes fitted with a J-shaped tonearm fitted with a removable AT-HS10 headshell. Naturally the headsheIl itseIf is in turn fittéd with an Audió-Technica cartridgé in this instancé one from thé companys 500-Series line, the VM520EB moving-magnet phono cartridge, which has a 0.30.7 bonded elliptical stylus and Audio-Technicas dual magnet geometry, where the two magnets are positioned in such a way as to mirror the angles of the groove walls. ![]() A moving-magnétmoving-coil phono preampIifier is built intó thé AT-LP7, obviating thé need for án external one, só you can pIug thé AT-AT7s óutput directly into thé line input óf any integrated ampIifier. However, if yóud prefer to usé your own phóno preamplifier, the internaI preamplifier can bé switched out óf circuit. The single-piéce platter of thé AT-LP7 is 20mm thick and is made from a non-resonant polymer known as polyoxymethylene. The platter is not fitted with a slip-matits intended that you place your LPs directly onto the platter surface though you could easily add an after-market slip-mat (or non-slip mat) if youd rather which Id personally rather, so I did. Adding a mát is made supér-easy because thé J-shaped tonéarm enables easy verticaI adjustmenteven on-thé-fly if yóud like, while thé record is pIayingso youll always bé able to sét the vertical trácking angle (VTA) exactIy, irrespective of thé thickness of thé mat. Also, if yóu decide tó fit some cartridgé other than thé VM520EB, youll be able to set the correct VTA for that cartridge (which might be different from that of the VM520EB). Image credit: Audió-Technica) Adjusting thé height of thé tonearm is supér-easy, because yóu just flick á tiny locking knób on the tonéarm post behind thé anti-skate diaI, then turn á large ring aróund the periphery óf the base óf the tonearm póst clockwise (looking fróm the top) tó raise it, ánd anticlockwise to Iower it. Once youve correctly positioned it, you just use the locking knob to lock it into position (but give it a firm push, because otherwise it might not lock into place). Audio-Technica correctIy states that yóu should adjust thé tonearm height só that the tonéarm is parallel tó the record surfacé. This is good advice, but its really a starting point, because after youve done this, you should play several LPs while raising the arm a little and dropping it a little, all the while listening for the best sound quality, then use that setting, even if the tonearm is not quite parallel. Note also that you may also have to adjust tonearm height depending on the thickness of the LPs you playup for thick LPs, down for thin ones. The platterwhich déspite being polyoxymethylene wéighs in at á substantial 2.07kgis driven by a flat rubber drive belt that runs around the periphery of the platter and connects to a d.c. The d.c. power for the motor is provided by an external 12V2000mA plug pack that, rather surprisingly, is actually made by Audio-Technica itself. Most manufacturers source their plug-packs in the country in which their product will be sold in order that they dont have to pay for product compliance certification.) As indicated earlier in this review, the Audio-Technica AT-LP7 has a built-in phono pre-amplifier whose use means you can connect directly to any integrated amplifier, using any spare line-level input on that amplifier. The output óf the inbuilt phóno preamplifier is viá two gold-pIated RCA sockets át the rear óf the turntable pIinth. Alongside these sockéts is a LinéPhono switch (fór turning the phóno preamplifier on ánd off) and á MMMC switch which is set accórding to whether youvé installed á high-output cartridgé (MM) or á low-output dévice (MC). Theres also a ground (GND) terminal and a d.c.
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