b2sc
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| Vintage Audio Repair in CA. Temporarily closed? I just spoke w Jon and VAR is open and has been the past several weeks. Great to hear. Apparently if you don't subscribe to Google as a business, they list your business as temporary closed when you use their search engine. Nice. | |
| turntable skipping with footsteps I solved my footstep problem in my listening area w/a Ginko isolation platform. Now I can dance! | |
| Record storage? +1 on the Boltz.com furniture. Extremely well built but you better like the industrial look,Boltz LP RackI use both the LP shelves and the CD storage. But save the $120 castor charge and get the same thing from Lowes for $20. | |
| VPI Scoutmaster platter/bearing install OK, now I *know* I'm good (I wasn't previously). I tapped the asssembly out of the platter, put a dab of white lithium grease around the perimeter of the bearing assembly. It slid in with nothing more than my palm and *finally* seated it in the pl... | |
| VPI Scoutmaster platter/bearing install ...the bearing was mounted on the plinth but the platter wouldn't slide on at all. No way would I have wanted to apply the force required while it was on the plinth.I lifted the assembly off the plinth and installed it in the platter, then simply ... | |
| VPI Scoutmaster platter/bearing install I had to tap it in using a wood block. I was very careful. | |
| How did you get into vinyl? There was nothing else except 8-tracks! | |
| DIY Record Cleaner Project - Need ideas Use a record brush such as the VPI or DD styles. W/O vacumming though, I'd be wary of the brushes not removing enough fluid that while the record is turning, the fluid would flow onto the label from the 12:00 position | |
| Cartridge & phono stage for VPI Scoutmaster setup? Thanks for all the great suggestions so far. From what I'm reading, I need to settle on a cartridge (I'm thinking Dyna) and will try it w/my CJ preamp straight. It's a tube phono section so hopefully the results will be pleasing.In the event I do ... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Don't Take Me Alive. Larry Carlton smokes on that one...I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this track. | |
| VPI vacuum too much?? Make sure the plastic screw on clamp is pretty tight against the record. It may be the mat is spinning underneath the LP. | |
| Fvorite pop/rock albums of all time (in no particular order...) I could listen to any one of these indefintely...1. Pink Floyd - The Wall2. Kate Bush -Hounds of Love3. LZ -Physical Graffiti4. Peter Gabriel - So5. Deep Purple - Fireball | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? I've got a dedicated FROG. Finished Room Over Garage connected to the main structure only by a breezeway. A decent size of 34x19 w/it's own HVAC. I soundproofed it when I upfit it by isolating all the drywall off the studs using neoprene pipe insu... | |
| Rush fans on the board ?? #1 = Hemispheres. I've been a huge fan since '78 when I saw them when I was 13. I saw them at least 6 times through Permanent Waves and then didn't like MP or anything after for at least 15 years..I finally warmed up to the post PW work in about '... | |
| Loud and Live Aside from most classic live recordings sounding somewhat inferior by todays recording standards, my faves are:Thin Lizzy -Live and DangerousScorpions -Tokyo TapesPat Travers -Go for What you KnowI typically prefer digital but for old live recordi... |