Testing the system

 With other sad news from within the group in this Saturday afternoon that I may comment on later on in the week when I've crystalized my thoughts, thoughts this weekend were more with setting up the hifi, something I've had to get my head around from my mid teens when I first had separates albeit hand me downs and quality used equipment.

Thins like the Tuner are easy to check, it either gets stations clearly sounding good or it doesn't but things like tape decks and record decks normally need a bit more work and often have specific resources you use with it to check and reset matters.

This is what is called a Test Disc which is basically a record with tests to check the arm is set up correctly, speed is spot on, the left channel really is coming from the left and so on.

They are still available new, a sign of the interest in good vinyl reproduction that some expected to go the way of the Dodo by the end of the 1990's but this is one from 1979 from the magazine HiFi For Pleasure  that I used to read and made for them by PYE Records to their specification.

It's very similar to what I had then and recently I came by a used copy which is useful as the instructions are easy to understand so I used to check and reset my turntable with this weekend.

Now what we need is brand new Cassette Test Tape!