Something those of you using a VPI SDS to control their turntable motor(s) probably have known for years, but I just found out about from a friend a few days ago —
In “calibration mode”, entered by holding down the up and down arrow buttons simultaneously while switching on the power, one of the SDS cal functions is a running total of the hours the SDS has been playing (the cal windows can be stepped through by pressing the 33/45 rpm button when in cal mode).
Since I’ve already found that I’m not particularly good at remembering to start a little stop-watch timer by the turntable to track hours on the new Aeon, this is a nice feature since I don’t have to remember to add the new “start the stop-watch” step to my vinyl playing routine. Or even more importantly, I don’t have to remember to turn the stop-watch off at the end of an evening!
I just use the total on the SDS when I mounted the new Aeon as “time zero” and go from there.
Steve
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