davidsss
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| best inexpensive tube integrated I'd suggest looking at Melody amps if you can find them, I have the I34 or Astro 40 which would be too much but I don't know the price of the SP3 or SP9 over there.My main point though would be to listen to a couple of tube amps. I listened and fo... | |
| Vintage Turntables compared to modern? I have been happy with my Micro Seiki MR611 for over 20 years. I am thinking of upgrading but not in any real hurry. The main problem is that to get a decent improvement I will need to spend thousands.DS | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? I'm in AU and got one from Godfreys (no affiliation).I'm convinced, the records are a lot cleaner. No, it won't get everything off, I still have some gunk on records which won't move, but it reduces surface noise enormously. I recently bought an o... | |
| Led Zeppelin IV vinyl I haven't listened to it for a while but my old pressing of Led Zep IV is the thickest piece of vinyl I think I've ever seen.DS | |
| Record storage? I got a local furniture maker to build me a bookshelf type arrangement with 3 shelves at the bottom for records, 2 in the middle for DVDs and 6 at the top for CDs. It really wasn't all that expensive (about $AU800) and, of course, it fits perfectl... | |
| Tube amps vs solid state for large speakers I don't know, my $AU3k Melody tube amp which is 40wpc drives my big Osborn Epitome speakers (90db) to ear bleeding volumes with control and it sounds great. I agree you need good transformers to make a good valve amp and power ratings are not a gr... | |
| Why vinyl? Well I am definitely a fan of vinyl. For a number of years I, too, only bought CDs (well a few records here and there). I know this is a familiar story but I just listened to music a lot less as time went on. When I got back into listening to musi... | |
| Second failure of new amplifier I have a new amp and have had tube failure. I am new to tubes an did not replace the tubes. These things can happen. But the service I expect is the service I'm getting - the importer came to my house, replaced the tube (and the other one in the p... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection All sorts of first pressings and the like.Off the top of my head:U2 Live Under a Blood Red Sky on red vinyl Australian Tour Edition signed by the band.Original pressing of Velvet Underground on Verve records, unfortunately no banana!A couple of Sm... | |
| Who LOVES their under $ 1000 table combination ? I Love my Micro Seiki MR611. I bought it 20 years ago for $AU350 and have only replaced belts and cartridges since (even the little light still works with the original globe!). It came with a Supex 900Super cart which I will get checked out soon f... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? Aah, we're not all boomers. I'm GenX apparently and we also grew up with vinyl. CDs came in when I was in my 20s so I already had a TT and a lot of records.What we need is to get the young folk into vinyl. And, it's not impossible. I bought my 13y... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? I got into vinyl as cassettes always sounded inferior to me. But, as with most people there is always more to the story.From an early age (I'm now in my early 40s) I have loved to listen to music. I started to put together my first stereo at about... | |
| Personal amp evolution Wow some great collections there.I started with a Pioneer amp when I was about 15, it was about 20wpc from memory.Followed this with a Technics 40wpc amp with needle power meters on the front.Can't remember model numbers for either of these.Moved ... |