Closed or Topless?

tecmo04
tecmo04 Posts: 421
edited April 2012 in Electronics
Do you listen to your turn table with the dust guard open or closed?
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited April 2012
    Mine is not hinged but sits over entire TT, so off when I am listening.

    When I did have a hinged TT I had to leave it open as my clamp was to tall to close while playing.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited April 2012
    It depends on our cat:cheesygrin:.......off while playing.

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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited April 2012
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    It depends on our cat:cheesygrin:.......off while playing.

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    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • PreCd
    PreCd Posts: 786
    edited April 2012
    TOPLESS!!!!

    O wait........what are we talking about?

    Top on for me unless music is playing. Then the hood is raised.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,808
    edited April 2012
    The Marantz/CA doesn't have one (I keep a cloth over it when not in use).
    For the ol' Technics - I take the dust cover off when playing records. In the wintertime in New England, static electricity can levitate the tonearm right off the disk and attact it to the dustcover when it is closed.

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,259
    edited April 2012
    I never play my TT with the dust cover up or on, seems to me it's a good catch for vibrations when being played with it up or on..
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,421
    edited April 2012
    Closed for me...
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited April 2012
    Only open to change albums...closed the rest of the time.
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited April 2012
    Funny about the cat.There is a guy on E-BAY who insists on using his cat as a prop crawling around the gear he sells mostly speakers. now we all know most people advertise from a kid free,smoke free, and pet free home.So why in the world would you have a cat crawl all over the stuff you are trying to deal.I did try to ask him that but got no response. I still think it's rediculous and is not the thing to do. Cat scratch fever is a grills worst enemy...
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited April 2012
    My hope meter pings way to the right whenever I see the word "topless" in a thread. Needless to say, that meter is silent now.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,808
    edited April 2012
    leftwinger57 wrote: »
    Cat scratch fever is a grills worst enemy...
    You should see the grilles of my 1978 Monitor 7As :-( No, actually, you shouldn't.

    In the fullness of time they'll be ensconced in a kitteh-off-limits room... when they are thus protected, I'll be putting new grille cloth on them. That should be an adventure...

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  • brianle
    brianle Posts: 572
    edited April 2012
    closed
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  • evhudsons
    evhudsons Posts: 1,175
    edited April 2012
    When the ladies are topless who cares whether the tt is topless or closed.

    Otherwise I set the tt cover aside while spinning, but then put it back on when I power off. I'm afraid someone will nudge the tt while fiddling with the top and potentially scratch the record.
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