chakster
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| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? The market is crazy for everything vintage and NOS. You named some brands, right, a well known brands normally cost more than unknown (and even better quality) brands. The prices going up constantly. Same about rare records, absolutely insane pric... | |
| Playing original lacquer discs Technology is the same now, there is a difference between lacquer used as a master (sent to the pressing plant from the studio) and a lacquer made as one-off for demo for everyone else (which is less critical to cut compared to the master lacquer)... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? This is Namiki Boron Rob cantilever/stylus structure @scmIf you want to know the truth I'll tell you that genuine ZYX cantilever structure is not what anyone can get from Namiki or Ogura, at that time (Airy is an old model) it was made for ZYX exc... | |
| Playing original lacquer discs Do you mean original lacquer masterdisc of acetate (dubplate), they are all lacquer. I have old demo acetates (and new acetates) and if they are clean they can be played just like any other records. | |
| Looking for a turntable around $1k... Brand new Technics SL1200 mk7 cost exactly $1000 and this is the best you can get with your budget (in my opinion). If you can expand your budget to $1800 you can even get the next GR model. This is about mk7 (and GR is even better): "The direct d... | |
| Recommended FR 66 service Ikeda in Japan | |
| PCTI tonearm by rauliruegas No one in a high-end community would like to post a picture of this tonearm? Review without any single image of the product is a bit strange. Post an image! | |
| tonearm cable, do you need one? @petg60 he’s asking about RCA to RCA type, his TT has RCA output with ground pin. | |
| Stylus shapes! So far, my experience with the Jico SAS shape has been limited to a replacement T4P stylus for a Technics MM cartridge inside the SL7 and SL10 turntables. While it was immediately clear that the SAS tracks significantly more accurately than any of... | |
| Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns? Whats is the reason to discuss some of the ugliest and most expensive things instead of discussion about something beautiful and affordable ? Why you are so concerned about something you can’t even buy anyway? | |
| I have been on the hunt for the best turntable I can buy. Any suggestions? A pal asked me for advice because he wanted to get serious about a new turntable. He was willing to go "up to 5k all in." I put together a bunch of options with links and prices. He ended up buying a used Sony on Craigslist for "a few hundred.":)) | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? Wow | |
| tonearm cable, do you need one? Zu Audio Phono cables with ground wire are excellent! You need shielded phono cable. Read more here. And on ebay you can find their auctions for Mission Phono RCA cables with starting price at $1, normally goes for $80-100 on those auctions. They ... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Seamail shipping cost nothing compared to EMS. But seamail is 3 month minimum. Airmail post is also cheap, but you must wait longer. I have no idea why do you compare China and Russia? Almost everything is made in China and almost nothing is made ... | |
| I have been on the hunt for the best turntable I can buy. Any suggestions? If you want to sell your Technics SL-10 let me know! |