It is essentially like a tonearm except it has brushes to clean the record as it's playing. of Great Britian from the 1960s until the early 1980s. Was a record cleaning device made by Cecil Watts, Ltd. In Reply to: Re: It was like a little shock absorber for the tonearm. In Reply to: It was like a little shock absorber for the tonearm. Re: It was like a little shock absorber for the tonearm.Seems that the consumer who would care about tonearm dampening already had better turntables with tonearms AND those who could have really benefitted couldn't have cared less about it. In short - a good idea but one without a really significant reason for purchase. On a better tonearm, the effect was noticable but hardly worth the effort. However, it needs to be used with very clean vinyl. The DiscTracker significantly damped tonearm resonances (I believe the BSR had an ADC XLM cart). I remember one test on a BSR 810, which is a decent but nothing special automatic from Britian. Also, the better the tonearm and cartridge installed, the less the effect, so it was really a device to help out those with lesser tonearms. There was a velvet-like pad that touched the record as it played and it had some sort of elastomer inside the little cylinder that damped tonearm movement.Īs I recall it was tested by several reviewers and found to be effective and to not have any negative effect on tracking as long as it was properly set up.

It was like a little shock absorber for the tonearm.Someone was selling another clone named 'Disc-Duster' a couple years ago. Still use them to pick up any dust that settles on the disc as it plays. Both work equally well, but the A-T one looks a lot nicer (shiny metal arm instead of clear plastic). I have a Watts Dust Bug, and also a clone that once was sold by Audio-Technica. Intent was similar to the brush on Shure V15V cartridges, but the Shure brush uses viscous fluid damping. The damping action was by a tiny pneumatic plunger inside the clear hollow tube. It used air to damp the tonearm's vertical resonance. Clever idea but it was tricky to set up well. I still have a DiscTracker but haven't used it in a long time. In Reply to: Discwasher DiscTracker posted by Arlekino on Octoat 09:12:14: DiscTracker and Dust-Bugs - Charlie S in Maryland 17:50:25 10/14/04.Posted by Arlekino ( A) on Octoat 09:12:14

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