Turntable Belt for Realistic LAB-2100 Turntable Tonearm

[Music] greetings welcome to the perennial Gadgeteer today we are going to focus on the linear tracking turntable most consumer grade linear tracking turntables were made in the 1980s just as the CD was starting to make its way to the market as the saying goes the rest is history as CDs mostly replaced vinyl but today vinyl LPs are generating new enthusiasm among listeners who appreciate the depths and complexity of the sound the record players the result is making a bit of a comeback for home listening most phonograph record players use pivoting tone arms like this which is not really ideal because it means the stylus will move in an arc rather than a straight line and since records are cut linearly on the recording lathe this means there will always be some tracing error as the stylus moves through the record resulting in a certain amount of distortion in the sound there are all is at