Mark Bicknell

Bumpy bump.

Inez Foxx now sold. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Weekly bump on this, the beat goes on tonight from 10pm - Midnight www.starpointradio.com Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Weekly bump on this, the beat goes on tonight from 10pm - Midnight www.starpointradio.com Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Totally agree Barry but a knacked stylus is a knacked stylus be it £6.00 or £180.00, my original point was based on the stylus being in tip top condition, changed and serviced on a regular basis, something which I've done througout my collecting days at home and rather exspect the same from equipment out and about. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Sunday Sale, most prices reduced even more bargains. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Z.Z. Hill now sold. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

That really get's my goat up to Dave when somone comes up and starts 'fiddling' often this is due to a sub standard sound system in the first place or not setting it up correctly, another thing that really does my head in on the big stage type venues is when there is no monitor speakers set up and you can't hear what it sounds like out front it's like being detatched from the gig and with the gear out there for sale these days there is no excuse not to supply a quality sound system at venues, theres nothing worse than shite sound and no excuse for it. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Sent you an email. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Bumpy Bump. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Sent you an email Phil. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Walter Jackson Issue now sold, list updated, couple more titles added. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

List updated, couple more added, more to follow. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Servicemen added. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Bumpy bump.

I guess the industry market leader is 'Stanton' but like most things there are numerous makes that are as good, I use Stanton Disc Master V3 (which I believe is also favoured by 'The Treski' fela) to record my weekly radio show on which is fitted to the turntable for that and everyday use which comes in at about £50.00 per cartridge and comes with two stylus so pretty good value, the Stanton Diablo V3 is also pretty good and comes in at about £40.00 includes cartridge and one stylus I think but still good value for money and is the model I have on the house party messing about with decks, both of these are I think good mid priced concord designs but of course like everything else you can pay upwards of £100.00 each for the better top of the range ones, if I was to reccommend one I'd go for the Disc Master it more than does the job. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Here, here Phil, never used a set of headphones in my life or cueing/back winding think the same lines as you the worst your gonna have is 2/3 second gap before the record starts, I've lost count the number of blank looks I've got over the years when a fellow DJ's say's 'There's the cue button or headphone control' alway's done it by eye and it works for me still I'm a professional....lol at what I don't know...lol Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Gene sent you a PM sir. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Buggar I just noticed that, still it was very early this morning when I posted the thread, still I'm thick at the best of times. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Few more added for the weekend. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

I've just recently been upgrading my DJ equipment ready for the start of the House Party/BBQ season which us and a close circle of friends throughout the summer get together at the various houses, eat, drink and play tunes from dusk till dawn, so I've been getting all the gear up to scratch, new mixer, Amp, speakers and the most important bit of kit 'The Stylus' which got me thinking what the state and condition is of the said stylus at Rare Soul venues? you hear of horror stories over the years of iffy and bad sound systems at gigs but apart form bad sound, sub standard equipment etc. how often is the stylus checked, maintained and replaced with new ones?, when you consider the value of many of the records I would like to think that the condition of the stylus should be nothing less than first class, I remember several years ago at an Allnighter Roger Banks totally wrecked his copy of Syl Johnson - 'Do You Know What Love Is' because the arm setting on the deck was too heavy and the stylus was way past it's sell by date resulting in the record having cue burn all the way through it, Roger went mental but nothing was done or offered to cover the fact that the record was fcuked caused by sub standard equipment i.e. a shagged stylus. When you consider that you can buy a pair of high quality 'Stanton' heads and stylus for example from about £60/70.00 I think this is a small price to pay to avoid any possible nightmares of damage to records, just wondering how often people maintain and change the stylus, if you consider that even a good quality one lasts for approx 500 hours playing time which by my calculations based on say an 8 hour allnight session means used 60 times, that it would need to be replaced at best once a year? but I suspect some would be used longer or never changed? I guess with this time scale and life span that it's easy to forget to change/replace on a regular basis but remember this a stylus can be replaced but in many instances the records can't if they are damaged as a result of cue burn, iffy of clapped out stylus, would be interested on your thought on this. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

List updated. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Mines gone up too, thought I was going mental...lol is anyone else having problems posting feedback as I've been trying on and off for the last couple of days and click the blue button and it just won't fire it through? this can't post negative feedback to a buyer is a pain in the arse I reckon, no right to reply at all for the seller if a transaction goes tits up, what happens when your waiting, weeks or whatever for payment off someone, if you go through Ebay for payment not been paid route then the buyer could after they finally pay post negative feedback because you simply wanted your money, personally I think it sucks. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Barbara Acklin, Inezz And Charlie Foxx and Soul Sisters now sold. More titles to follow. Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Bump for tea time. Regards - Mark Bicknell.