bdp24
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| It is a good idea to purchase a vintage tube pre-amp. For $3000, a PH-3se phono stage and an LS-16 line stage might be better than an SP-15, don't ya think? | |
| Feedback through turntable rotaries is absolutely correct; cones and spikes are not isolators, they are couplers---at least, in the very low frequencies needed for turntable isolation. The idea that cones and spikes provide wideband isolation seems to be a deeply-entrenched... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! Thanks Jeff, I did not know that. I don’t think the Kallax’s thinner shelves (I believe they are 5/8", 3/4" at most) should be a problem, as they are braced every 15" or so. | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Thanks Slaw, I'll go to the OL site and order one. Thanks for the tip-off! | |
| Confessions from a VPI owner of some 30 years Slaw, above you stated: "I am not wanting to replace it (the Townshend table) for the VPI Classic 3 Sig SE anytime soon. In the end, I know I will have to. UGH!". I'm unclear on the meaning; do you mean the Townshend will replace the VPI, or visa ... | |
| New Townshend Rock 7 owner Remind me Slaw, as I have forgotten: Does the Mk.7 have a sub-platter under the 12" acrylic platter, around which the belt rides? My Elite Mk.2 does, and if the Origin Live belt is of a length for a smaller sub platter I gotta get myself one. | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! spelly, the 25 space Kallax is listed and pictured on the Ikea website at the $199 price (plus shipping), and is priced the same in the Portland Oregon store I went into. I would think that is the price at all Ikea locations, but have no way to ve... | |
| Ancient AR Turntable with NO anti skate To replace the AR XA/B tonearm requires some machining. I took my floating subchassis to a machine shop and had them cut out the bearing well, leaving a hole in the chassis big enough for a tone arm mount. The table is a fine design, the arm not s... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... Chris, to the best of my knowledge the RM-200's higher 4 ohm output is unique in the world of tube amps. I wonder how Roger achieved THAT engineering feat! Clever designer, and really swell fella. | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! Good idea Glenn. The Kallax 25 space unit is the best deal around at $199, providing almost 30 linear feet of LP storage (almost 6’ wide, and 5 rows high)! If I got the Kallax (I would be getting a number of the 4-space and 8-space units, my rooms... | |
| New Ikea storage unit great for LP's! bdgregory---The Expidit was the model the Kallax is a replacement for. There was such an outcry when the Expidit was discontinued that Ikea reintroduced it as the Kallax, the name being the only difference between the two. The drawers look like th... | |
| Old Amp vs. New Amp Ha, good one Wolf! I love the Fender Deluxe, probably my all-time favorite guitar amp. Dwight Twilley's guitarist Bill Pitcock plugged (R.I.P., lung cancer) his Gibson 335 into a pair of them, with an MXR digital delay between the two, to get his ... | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... Yep Chris, completely agree. If I had found an RM-9 Mk.2 first I would have gotten it instead of the RM-200 Mk.2. On the other hand, I like that Modjeski gets 100 watts out of only a single pair of tubes in the 200, and that those tubes are KT88's... | |
| Tuners that do it? Yes indeed, zavato. Not just in sound quality, but in alternate and adjacent-channel selectivity perhaps the best tuner ever made. MR78 designer Richard Modaferri offers an update/mod/improvement for the tuner. | |
| Help me get started again. Tube amp... I sold my RM-200 in 2015 (not 2014 as I incorrectly stated above) for $2000 (hope my post above wasn't the impetus for the seller raising his price!) only because I found a Mk. 2 version for $2500. The Mk.2 provides a worthwhile improvement for th... |