albertporter
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| Which table better choice in the long run? How about you tell us? If the Technics is rebuilt properly and with a great plinth I think it competes with the best there is. | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Ken, I found this photo on line. Is it REALLY you?Fritz The Cat | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Old tape can be 'baked' at 150 degrees for about 30-40 minutes to get rid of the sticky/shedding issues. Brings new meaning to the term "Hot Jazz" | |
| how many folks have +10kVA trannys before the rig? If you can swing the power company to do a three phase install on your home, you get your own dedicated 15 KVA transformer and (if lucky) you will be the only one in the neighborhood on the transformer.I did this, took a lot of time with a TXU sup... | |
| Technics SP 10 Mk II a Rwwear, I thought my MK3 was running fine until I had it rebuilt. When it was all original it's performance was maybe 15% above my (rebuilt) MK2. After I got it back they were so far apart I could not believe it.I'm going to sell my Wenge plinth M... | |
| Technics SP 10 Mk II a Lewm is on top of this and correct. I did use Black Gates in my MK2 Technics because Michael Percy had them in stock and they were cheap compared to the effort to install.A friend and I replaced all the electrolytics with Black Gate or Nichicon, b... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Two that sound great and don't break the bank are Tandberg and Technics. There are others that have either great electronics OR great transport but usually not both.The Tandberg and Technics both sound good, the Technics is one of the best for low... | |
| LAST - then and now? From my experience with Last for the past (approximately) 30 years, Last preservative does what it claims. I've got back up copies of many LP titles, purchased new (at the same time) and the ones treated with Last hold up better.My understanding i... | |
| SME 3009 wood arm ?? Tidybear, here's a link to Audiogon virtual systems where you can launch a new system and post images.http://cgim.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/vs_post.pl | |
| SME 3009 wood arm ?? You can start a system thread and name it something like "Rare SME" or similar and then you can post photo's in that. A link in this thread will drive us over to that so we can view.WAF is Wife Acceptance Factor. Many of us are married and often h... | |
| SME 3009 wood arm ?? Tidybear, do you know what stick on wood (vinyl) looks like? Wonder if someone wanted the chrome SME to have more WAF and did a custom job? | |
| Recommended bearing lubricant for Technics SP10? Mobil One Synthetic, 5W-30. Regardless of what went in before, synthetics play well with others, avoiding the possibility of gunking up the works. | |
| solder-Eutechnic,Wonder,WBT?? Where do we SIgn Up? | |
| SME 3009 wood arm ?? Some SME models had wood INSIDE the arm for damping. I know of no SME that had wood outside as primary construction material.As Stanwal says, you can email SME. I think you're wrong and it's not an SME. Hope I'm wrong and you have something really... | |
| Ceiling Exhaust Fan -How loud is .5 sones? Thanks Albert,If any1 can confirm .3 or .5 sones is as noisy as the back of the computer fan, that'd be excellent and I can live with that. Computer fans vary a lot, and the distance your ear is from that fan is also a factor. How far from this fa... |