Most vintage turntable users are (quite) obsessed in finding the best plinth available for there precious turntables. Common materials to deal with resonances and vibrations during record playback are mostly : wood, stone, metal or the very fashionable corian. Thomas Schick decided to go his own way. His main axis of research was effective damping. What […]
Here are the first pictures of the new Uwe limited edition green malachite stone-body… This particular mineral was chosen by Uwe for its mechanical aspects as well as high concentration in oxidized copper (more than 50% in fact !). Those new green malachite stone-bodies weight 6.15g, whereas an ebony wood-body is around 4.20g. They will retail […]
Just to let you know that the two last Uwe stone-bodies have been sold and that these were the last ever to be made by Uwe. Ok… as it is the birthday of Cala Mighty Sound in less than 20 minutes : I found out that I had one marbled black Uwe stone-body in stock. This […]
Uwe decided to produce a very limited edition of his famous wood-bodies in… stone ! They are were available in either marbled black : Or in marbled white with a Mario dot (the Mario dot is not included with Uwe stone bodies) : These stone-bodies weight 8g each. I have had two marbled white stone-bodies left in stock so if […]
My good friend David Parson of Classical Vinyl and Electric Recording Company found these adverts in some old French music critics/journals… and guess what there is some really nice Clément ads there among other vintage items. We thought that it was something worth sharing with you. The left advert for Clément shows a very early Clément cartridge […]
Corps de cellule Midas arrondi et Uwe en bois d’amourette (snakewood) Corps de cellule Midas carré Inspiré entre autre par Jean Hiraga, dès la fin des années 90 Uwe construisait ses premiers prototypes de coques pour la cellule Denon DL-103, estimant que la coque en plastique d’origine n’était pas forcément idéale. En effet avec ses corps de cellules […]
I once had a Koetsu Black. An early one from the eighties, built by Musashino Lab for Koetsu. It had it’s original tip with the boron cantilever and well over two thousand hours of playback. It might seem as an heresy to some of you but it tracked well, there was no sign of distortion […]
French posts and English posts were not behaving properly together. I decided to create another blog to host the frogs. You can find it here : Cala Mighty Sound in French ! On my upcoming website this issue will be solved. Thank you! Something to come (here in a prototype state)… Le messages en français et en […]
Recevoir un bras Schick… c’est chic et ce même quand la poste a maltraité le colis! A l’intérieur? Il ne reste plus qu’à glisser le lève bras dans son embase et serrer la vis qui le maintient avec la clef allen fournie… Le diable se loge dans les détails… ici des embouts de câble et […]
Today I received a Schick tonearm. Even badly handled by courriers : it is still in pristine condition inside. Indeed the packaging is more than adequate. Good job Thomas! Inside? Everything to prepare the tonearm. Your main job will be to fix the tonearm lift on it’s base. For this no need to remove the […]
