Today I come back to you with an update on the world's best record player and share a real sensation. angel We're talking about the Union Jack, lodges, the Freemasons, heraldry, the George's, St. Andrew's and Patrick's crosses and what this has to do with the structure of an LP12 or, more precisely, with the installation and the vibration behavior of a sub-chassis.
It all started in 1717, with the 2nd Duke of Montagu and the belief that constant work on oneself leads to self-knowledge and more humane behaviour. That sounds like everything and nothing at first, but the actual reason for this step was that the theaters, which were slowly emerging, were able to visually convey the play in color, but acoustically the play remained difficult to transport to the ears of the audience. This was less a question of language but more likely a clear case of the lack of trained ears; the medium of acting was still too young and misunderstood, and music was only adequate for conveying messages in the smallest of circles.
So the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLoE) became the great patron of public speech, drama and music, forcing free and open transportation of information. When the kingdom was to be given a more modern face in 1801 and the Union Jack was introduced, those people were of course not only silently involved, but suggested the combination of the English flag and the George's Cross (red cross on a white background) , the Scottish flag (white St. Andrew's cross on a blue background) and St. Patrick's cross (red St. Andrew's cross on a white background).
At first glance, all of this sounds pretty innocuous and you will ask yourself what this has to do with the best turntable in the world?
It was Edward, the 2nd Duke of Kent, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin and Grand Master of the UGLoE from 1968 to the present, who presented Ivor Tiefenbrunn the Union Jack as the encrypted blueprint for the world's best record player. Ivor was the first to understand that this did not require a sub-chassis in the shape of a cross. So he clearly set himself apart from Edgar Villchur. Ivor understood that the superposition of St. George's, St. Andrew's and St. Patrick's crosses indicated the vibration directions, the distances between St. George's and St. Andrew's crosses indicated the maximum permissible amplitude of the vibration, and the St. Patrick's cross and its vexilological value indicated the position of the center of gravity of this divinely optimal subchassis. At the same time, this superimposition shows the order in which the individual parts of the construction are to be arranged and how the sub-chassis is to be built into the construction; it is also an encrypted assembly manual.
Today we also know what mistake Edgar Villchur made. He only ever recalled the Scottish version of the flag design with the St. Andrew's Cross in the foreground.
Obviously he opted for a cross-shaped sub-chassis rather than a rhombus-shaped one. If the last version with the Patrick's cross added in 1801 had prevailed in his mind's eye, this mistake would probably not have happened to him.
To which extent Queen Elisabeth was involved in handing over the encoded blueprint for the world's best record player to Ivor Tiefenbrunn has not been fully documented, but Edward wouldn't have done anything without your consent. Now it is also certain that the LP12 is a design by the grace of God. That's why it's the logical consequence of being the world's best turntable.
Sure, that probably went too fast and those who have never assembled an LP12 will have many question marks in their minds. But just listen; after all, hearing is the cornerstone of believing, as you all know very well
The story is too Shakespearean for you?
Then just let me tell you that Shakespeare himself was Grand Master of the Stratford-upon-Avon lodge and that the Union Jack even contains the various expansion stages of the DECCA TREE with the associated miking rules. Just take a closer look at the Union Jack.
The orange circles show the correct position of the microphones for the best possible stereo recording according to the so-called DECCA Tree
I´m pretty sure that with this sensational background information the next steps and their perceptions will be much easier to understand.
If you want to change the LP12s sub-chassis, you first have to remove the outer and inner platter, close the platter bearing, then remove the base plate, remove the tonearm, then remove the so-called cross brace, remove the tonearm cable and to disconnect ground wire. Then you can retain the three springs. However, with the corner braced plinths, the corner reinforcements prevent the subchassis from being removed downwards with the tonearm board mounted. So it is pulled out through the side opening between the top plate and the frame and the new sub-chassis is threaded through this cut-out in reverse order from above into position.
So that is exactly what the lines of superimposed crosses on the Union Jack indicate. Can you see how fiction meets reality in this point?
And this is what I exactly did next. The Analogue Innovation Sole MK1 went in.
Before
After
If you look closely, you can see the silver sub-chassis is now peeping through between the armboard and top plate; before it was black as night, but neither did I find Sauron in the plinth
Some time later I´ve managed to prepare the Audio Classique acrylic armboard I´ve used with the Cirkus sub-chassis previously to fit to the Sole subchassis also
