dgarretson
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| Best Rock Album in 2012 Has anybody seen GB open for Radiohead? Shields is an excellent LP, but may go too far in the direction of turning GB into a cover band for the RH sound. | |
| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally As mentioned in the Analog Planet thread,"the original tapes were transfered flat to 24/192... BUT... the mastered versions (EQ'd and level adjusted) were printed back to 24/44.1. That means the highest resolution that the approved mastered versio... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, this comes dangerously close to the storyline of Gogol's The Nose, in which a customer's missing facial part discovered in a barber's piece of bread signifies castration. A cigar is sometimes just a cigar, but a moustache is usually m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, In this instance there is no arm tube. The headshell bayonet receptacle butts directly into the vertical pivot bearing. the tonearm wires run from soldered connections to the pins on the backside of the bayonet receptacle, through the... | |
| Burn in Capacitor phenomena Capacitor microphonics are easily detected at the surface with a sensitive instrument microphone. Try placing a phono cartridge stylus on the cap's surface and listen to it rumble with the music. We use a laser vibrometer to quantify it during the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello Acman3, The removable Trans-Fi headshell is in progress at the shop and should be finished next month. It will have front and rear counterweights and an uninterrupted balanced harness from the bayonet receptable to the phono stage, probably ... | |
| Feedback blew my phono stage? Hello Halcro, I'm inclined to accord with ct0517 that"if you want to keep that white shelf, the Victor/armpods in that TT location you need to add a level on top of that shelf that the Victor and armpods all join to for isolation. This will then... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Bob Mould's Silver Age is his strongest in a string of recent good ones-- including 2012 vinyl reissues of two seminal Sugar albums. Mould is a kind of thinking man's Josh Homme, with rock roots as deep as Frank Black but without the recognition f... | |
| Repair a Sony SCD 777ES? Swampwalker, sorry, I wrote that Sony mntc. procedure from personal experience and with input from Richard Kern, an early Sony modifier. I have no experience with Denon. | |
| Repair a Sony SCD 777ES? Remove the top cover, the transport billet section, and clean and relube. This solves the problem 80% of the time:SCD-1/777ES Transport Maintenance1. Tilt up top cover at rear of CDP and disconnect ribbon harness that secures top cover to Main Boa... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, the Acutex 4XX-series manual mentions use of "space-age[cantilever] materials like boron and titanium." One may presume that this would at least apply to the top 420 model. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Ecir38. I now see that there is a minor bug in SS's F9 URL link. There are two lines in the link to get further info on the Grace F9: one line leads to the F9 template and the other line leads to the Zephyr template. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm, I would have increased confidence in SS's $500 Grace Ruby stylus if Peter would post the promised photo of the product and fix the URL order link that currently describes a VPI Zephyr. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, Trust me on this-- with a film cap supply you can go lower than the stock values of the replaced electrolytics-- a 50% ratio is conservative. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Ct0517, on my TransFi the "loom problem" is compounded by slightly thicker discretely shielded wires, and by the extra wires required for a balanced circuit. The feather-lite short wand is particularly vulnerable to fouling.http://cgim.audiogon.co... |