billstevenson
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| mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not. The MT10 was tested favorably a couple of years ago in the British HiFi World magazine where it was compared with a modified Technics SL1200GAE with SME IV tonearm and external power supply. About the same price, different, but no winner. There ... | |
| VPI 40th Anniversary Table After Warranty Support Question In 1986 I bought an HW-19 Turntable and an HW-17 record cleaning machine. The turntable has needed only routine lube for the bearing and the occasional belt. The record cleaning machine needed service due to operator error (that would be me usin... | |
| FM vs. HD RADIO.... anybody think FM is better? I have a recently Modefferi modified McIntosh MR78 and for digital a Sony Z1ES. Which one sounds better depends entirely on the signal being received for the most part. Most digital signals are VERY compressed. Good FM broadcasting is almost ex... | |
| Do 45 rpm 12" LPs really sound better than 33 rpm? I should disclose first that making a 12" at 45 rpm takes the LP feature away, which I don't care for. More importantly, all else equal the faster the speed the more noise will be generated. This can be significant for the stylus tracing the rec... | |
| 3D Printed Tonearm I have a 10" 3D arm on my Prime. I suggest you go to the VPI website where you can see the product and go to the forums where it is discussed at length. | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? If any who haven't tried Last lives in or near West Palm Beach, Florida, I would be happy to have you bring a record or two over to the house and I will treat them for you. You can listen before and after treatment and decide for yourself if you ... | |
| Help! New mono cartridge for Dad's present-need the least amount of tweaking There are a lot of ways to skin a cat. To answer your question, yes you can buy him a DL102 and it will be very similar in weight and overall dimensions to his 103, therefore, it will be easy enough to switch back and forth. All else being equal... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? Blueanger, I never buy the 2 oz. bottle and never counted the number of records, but know how you can find the answer as to the number of records you can expect to treat per bottle. You can call Last and they will tell you or you can call a reta... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? This is a response to whart's questions:Clearly the demonstration I described constituted a severe test. Nobody is going to repeatedly play the same record over and over again in normal circumstances. The point of the demonstration was simply to ... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? When Last Record Preservative first was introduced the sales rep visited our store and made a very convincing demonstration. He cleaned two new identical records and treated one with Last and left one untreated. Then the two records were put on ... | |
| Technics SL-1200G Anti-Skating I would be interested to learn if you find that following Peter's method results in a significant difference as compared to just setting it as per the dial on your Technics TT. FWIW, my experience on my GAE has been that the Technics setting is a... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Given the nature of this question and the attitudes expressed by the poster the answer for you sir is: YES. Now go away. | |
| Any thoughts on Sugarcube device The following is in part a review that I wrote for the VPI Forum: The SugarCube works as advertised. That is, it removes ticks, pops and noise on old and worn records, although not always perfectly. I have found that badly damaged records can't... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor At the risk of starting another war, I would like to offer the following observation. The MintLP, which I happen to use myself and like quite well, is based on the Stevenson model. Sorry Raul. Which, leads to my main reason for posting: The dif... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? I have a Conrad Johnson TEA2MAX, high gain (55db) and a Bob's SUT set to 5:1 and it sounds mighty good with my Ortofon Per Winfeld. Trouble for all of us is that we don't know how all of these compare with each other. Isn't it ironic that in tod... |