Romy the Cat wrote:

I am looking a light for my TT and it is not as simple. I love to have a very powerful spot light over TT and the light need to be coming from a few direction of to have a long gooseneck.  The regular goosenecks light are very short (table goosenecks will not work) and loose strength very soon.  The Cat

Arlequen,

Thank for the suggestion, the shape-wise it is exactly what I am looking for. I have seen a number of similar lights but they are LED lights. I kind of automatically discard the led lights as I though then are not as powerful and not as bright as small halogen lights.  Also, a few similar led lights that I have seen gave an ugly bluish cold light that I happed do not like. I kind of like the idea to have halogen to run at full power what I need to do something with cartridge and then to run it at fraction power vial a dimmer when I juts spin records and need light juts to see where is the beginning of groves or to see the structure of the grove.  Halogen light tend to be soft and have low color temperature when it runs undercooked, even though it is killed the Halogen bulbs a bit sooner.

I do not want to sound overly anal retentive but last week an idea comes to me that make me a bit horny. I have a good vision but how many times we try to lower needle in some specific location… not vision will help you as everything is small and black. So, why do not have a long gooseneck with super powerful Halogen light and combine it with a magnifying lens?  How many times I was forces to use a lens and to look at the tip of needle to see that it picked some dirt. Now pretend that you have 10X magnifying lens with super bright combined in a very small and sexy looking package? That is what I would like to find! There are a number of magnifying lamps out there but they are all a bit utilitarian to my taste. I am looking it to be in black, to be small and to have some hip chick appearance. I would pay up to $200 for such a lamp.

The industry Morons,  – here is the idea for you to produce. Make a good lamp. Then make your marketing department to make statements that you use the light of very specific wavelength that in a very favorite way affects sound. Make the neck of the light that handle over turntable to spray some ions that would de-dust the records. Make a laser light to the shot to the record and to makes the record flatness.  Market it as “Audiophile Light”, make a price tag $1999.99 and to make someone idiot like Michael Framer to spread saliva that the Audiophile Light not only “improve Sound” but it circumstantially “works” as  pregnancy prevention. I am sure your will be able to see thousands of them around the world….

Romy the Cat wrote:

I kind of automatically discard the led lights as I though then are not as powerful and not as bright as small halogen lights...

I found very nice solution for my TT light.  What I discovered is that I do not like those light and flimsy lights that I have tried but I like the regular heavy bench light fixture. In addition they are very easy to position to light up the TT under any angle. The problem with them that they do not have a truly narrow lighting pattern and if I want to have really bright spot on my TT then I need to run 100-200W bulb on them that create a Lot of heat on the TT surface.

What I discovered last weekend in Home depot was the new type of LED Flood Light Bulbs. I never used them before but they are absolutely fantastic for my purpose.

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fedison_spot.html

There are great variety of them and some of them are very very narrow. I got a few of them and I end up with 8W bulb (believe me or not) the reportedly give light as much as 60W bulb. In my estimation it very much might be true – from a feet and a half from platter it gives VERY bright spot and has practically no hit. The color temperature does not feel annoying and everything else is wonderful as well.

An addition benefit is that threat the LED Flood Light Bulb is really is point source light (I use the one with one single LED) and it gives a very nice and very contrasty reflection of the record surface on the low ceiling on my equipment bay, I can clearly see where is the tonearm on the record and if the record has the center hole off center. Very comfortable.

I think those new LED Flood Light Bulbs shall trigger a creation of the new type of fixture to host them. If the LED Flood Light Bulb were a bit more indented into own body they might be wonderfully used without any externa;l reflactor ans the have no back or side light on it’s own.

N-set wrote:

I'm not sure if yoy are aware of the fact that LED bulds have small but powerfull voltage converters inside operating at 40kHz or so, RF poluting the room and the lines. better avoid than filter. Halogen bulbs (halogen element packed in a normal bulb enclusure) are of course nowhere close in efficiency  (although from my limited experience LED efficiency is greatly, GREATLY overblown) but are cleaner and IMHO give much better light.