Record Player Replacement Needles
August 20th, 2009
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Record Player Replacement Needles
Icky Thump Vinyl not working!?
I have a perfectly good, 1 year old record player that works fine with all my vinyls. Exactly one year ago (well, one year and a couple of weeks), I bought Icky Thump on vinyl at Tower Records. I put it in the player, lo and behold, it keeps skipping! I'm royally pissed, so I called Warner Brothers Records to see if they knew anything about defective vinyls. After a million calls here and there, I got one guy to send me a replacement. I got the replacement TODAY, finally, and eagerly, carefully, slipped it in, put the needle on and...Icky Thump skips again! Is my player somehow incompatible, or are the vinyls defective? As to the latter, the guy at WB had no idea.
An old trick was to start stacking coins on the pickup arm until it quit skipping 
Can you adjust the arm? I'm having a hard time blaming two different recordings.
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Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with NP4 Needles $53.95 The Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with NP4 Needles ensures you only hear the crisp clean sound of your favorite classic songs! Each kit includes three NP4 Replacement Record Needles, a cleaning cloth, distilled water for cleaning and instructions. The NP4 needles are for use with the Crosley Director CD Recorder Turntable and the Crosley Keepsake USB Turntable. It's the perfect accessory for every vinyl record lover! |
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Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with NP3 Needles $53.95 The Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with NP3 Needles helps you get all of the dust, dirt, and grime out of your favorite vinyls, so all you hear is crisp, clear music. Each kit includes an attractive wooden storage box with a sliding top for all of your materials. Inside, you'll find three NP3 Replacement Record Needles, a cleaning cloth, distilled water for cleaning, and instructions. The NP3 needles are for use with the Crosley Composer and Crosley Songwriter CD Recorder Turntables. |
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Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with NP1 Needles $49.95 Keep your records in top shape with the Crosley Record Cleaning Kit. Each kit features an attractive wooden storage box with a sliding top. Inside, you'll find three NP1 Replacement Record Needles, a cleaning cloth, distilled water for cleaning, and instructions. Note that the NP1 needles are not for use with the Crosley Stack-O-Matic Turntables. |
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Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with Stack-O-Matic Needles $53.95 The Crosley Record Cleaning Kit with Stack-O-Matic Needles is the perfect accessory for any record lover! An attractive, hand-rubbed wooden storage box houses all of your accessories. Inside, you'll find three Stack-O-Matic Replacement Record Needles, a felt cleaning brush, and a bottle of record cleaning solution. Note that the Stack-O-Matic Record Needles are only for use with Crosley's Stack-O-Matic Record Changer Turntables. |
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A Record Player $24.99 A Record Player - Photographic Print |
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Crosley NP1 Replacement Record Needle $24.95 The state-of-the-art Crosley NP1 Replacement Record Needle features a diamond stylus with a durable ABS plastic body for long life. You'll enjoy listening to your favorite records for hours to come! Note that the NP1 Replacement Record Needles are not for use with any of Crosley's stack-O-Matic Turntables. |
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First Long Player Record $8.99 First Long Player Record |
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Replacement Needle for MC-2318 $9.95 Replacement record player needle for MC 2318 |
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TV and Record Player $39.99 TV and Record Player - Giclee Print |
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Girl with Record Player $19.99 Girl with Record Player - Premium Poster |
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Feltworks Replacement Felting Needles -6/Pkg(Pack of 1) $5.99 Feltworks Replacement Felting Needles -6/PkgDIMENSIONS-Feltworks Replacement Felting Needles. This package contains 6 replacement felting needles: 3 fine and 3 coarse. Needle Felting Tool not included. Imported. |
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Lunastrella Record Player $29.99 John Golden Lunastrella Record Player - Giclee Print |
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Boy Listening To Record Player $24.99 Boy Listening To Record Player - Photographic Print |
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Crosley 78 RPM Replacement Record Needle $33.95 The Crosley 78 RPM Replacement Record Needle is designed specifically for your 78 RPM records. The sapphire needle tracks older 78 style records much better than modern needles. It features a durable ABS plastic construction, so you can enjoy hours of your favorite tunes! Note that this replacement needle is not for use with Crosley's Stack-O-Matic turntables. |
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Float Needles $38.99 K&L Float Needles Need a replacement needle for your carburetor...look no further K&L has what you need to rescue, rebuild, and/or refurbish you carburetor. **Note: Product varies depending on model. **Note: Sizes refer to the number of needles included in the pack. |
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2pk Turntable Needles $16.99 GRACE DIGITAL AUDIO GDI-NDL2 REPLACEMENT TURNTABLE NEEDLES, 2-PK |
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Child Playing a Record Player $34.99 English School Child Playing a Record Player - Giclee Print |
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Repairing the Sharp RP-116 record player!
RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised
RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about. The technology is not new, it has its roots as far back as 1946 and chances are, you are sitting within a few feet of an RFID device right now.
RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a umbrella term used to describe technologies that transmit the identity of a person, animal or object in the form of a unique serial number wirelessly, using radio waves. The technology is in the same category as barcodes, OCR and some biometric systems such at retinal scanning.
The applications of this technology are obviously massive, it can (and has) been used in security, identification and as a replacement for barcodes among other things. The Oyster card, London's prepaid public transport system uses RFID as does the similar Japanese Octopus card.
The RFID chips embedded in Oyster cards, passports, cattle and people across the globe come in two forms; passive and active. Active RFID holds its own power supply, passive requires no power. Passive RFID is the more commonly used and slightly less controversial of the two and it is passive RFID that I will be focussing on in this article.
Imagine the passive RFID in your Oyster card and the reader in the turnstiles at Charing Cross as two players in a game of table tennis. The reader serves the ball constantly and as long as the ball is not returned it knows that another player is not nearby. When a RFID chip is near to a reader it bounces back the signal, just like a table tennis player returning a serve. Now imagine that when the returning player (the RFID chip) hits the ball back his bat leaves a unique mark.
The serving player (the reader) always knows who returned the ball due to these identifying marks. This is essentially how Oyster cards work, the marks left on the proverbial table tennis ball represent the card's remaining balance and that balance is updated whenever the card is used to travel. This data is kept on a central database not on the chip itself. All that is usually on a RFID chip is a unique string of numbers that identifies it to aforementioned database.
Naturally, with a silent way of checking who has been moving where, people are concerned RFID can and will be used to create a big brother state. Companies have already produced and are heartily marketing RFID-proof clothing and a sleeve for your passport that prevents the chip being picked up unless the passport is opened and deliberately presented to a scanner/reader.
These concerns are natural and by no means unfounded but it must be considered that passive RFID is easily blocked, even thick clothing can disrupt the signal. It must also be kept in mind that passive RFID cannot be easily employed to track people in the traditional sense. You must pass by a sensor to be detected and all that is recorded is that you passed by, not your speed, your direction or even your actual identity. After all, to a RFID scanner you are nothing more than an anonymous string of digits.
As we speak I have a RFID wristband from Alton Towers YourDay system sitting on my desk. As I am hundreds of miles out of reach of their scanners the wristband is useless. Alton Towers have no idea where I am and even less idea who I am. These things considered, it is my personal opinion that concerns that we are being spied on using RFID are as valid as the worry of alien mind control or the interesting but ridiculous chemtrail poisoning theories.
Among the most exciting applications for RFID is the human sub-dermal implant. By placing a tiny RFID chip encased in silicate glass under the skin users can open RFID-enabled doors, start cars and store medical and personal information such as allergies or insurance details.
The possibilities are literally endless for the RFID implant. Eventually, a bead of glass the size of a grain of rice implanted in your wrist or hand could replace your keys, your credit card, your work swipe card/ID, your passport and even every username and password on every computer you own. Providing they are all equipped with the relevant RFID scanners of course.
With a nation-wide network of RFID scanners, the rough location of escaped criminals or missing children could be ascertained in moments. To some this may sound like tracking, a way for the dastardly government to keep an eye on us, but this is merely one application of a technology that could change the world, it could be the first step towards integrating man and machine, to becoming cyborgs.
One Spanish nightclub has begun offering RFID implants to it's VIP customers. They use them as a kind of debit card which means no need to carry wallets or cash, just scan your hand. These implants are hardly widespread, they are hardly used at all in fact. The one place they seem to have any semblance of popularity is in the body modification community where they are being seen almost as a 21st century piercing.
Transhumanists and cyberpunks are slowly embracing the RFID implant, at the moment it's more basic uses are those you commonly hear of, computer locks and ID cards. One tattoo parlour even uses RFID implants as the staffs sign-ons for the cash register, I can only assume that they are removed when the employee stops working for the parlour.
The medical applications of RFID are fast becoming one of the hot topics surrounding this exciting technology. Implants containing the medical history, allergies, insurance details and personal details of patients would allow medical staff to quickly identify and treat patients in emergency situations.
The American FDA only approved the implants for such use relatively recently and so this application is in its infancy. The massive impact it could have on emergency medicine is obvious. Patients full medical histories could be accessed even if the patient is unconscious or incapable of speech. If only used for this purpose RFID implants will still be one of the biggest technological revolutions since the internet was born.
The terrible shame about this technology is that it is unlikely to be welcomed with open arms by the general public. The tin-foil hat brigade will always voice their over-enthusiastic conspiracy theories and scare people off long before RFID implants can really take hold.
Some might be put off by the whole implantation thing and that's fair enough, it's a pretty big needle after all. I for one intend to embrace this potentially world-changing technology as soon as RFID enabled locks and cars become readily available. Someone call Sarah Connor, I'm going cyborg.
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