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| Vinyl Records - Shipping, max/min temperatures Canada Post are in the habit of leaving my mail in a "community mailbox" half a mile from my house. Vinyl LPs don't seem to suffer in the winter, but I do make a point of picking them up in the summer, as a hot metal box in +30°C is likely to do h... | |
| Lowest priced MC thats better than a Premium MM? MM and MI cartridges are far superior when it comes to high output design. And sound, sometimes. | |
| looking for Jelco TK-850S installation manual English version https://www.vinylengine.com/library/jelco/tk-850s.shtml That's the instruction/owner's manual. You may need to join that site to download it. | |
| SME 309 or SME 3009r? A V is not a IV with extra bits added: the IV is a V with bits deleted! The V came out before the IV (by about 18 months), and the reviews at the time quoted AR-A saying that a V was handmade with selected parts, whilst the IV was assembled with o... | |
| Vibration Question But a spirit level says the tonearm panel is level. That's surely the best I can hope for, no? | |
| Vibration Question Well, the 18th century oak chest wins over all other considerations! It's worth more than all my hi-fi and records. | |
| Moving Magnet Phono Cartridges There's nothing to lose with the Nagaoka. | |
| Vibration Question I see the dominant opinion is, as expected: don't use pods at all. But given the turntables I have (where there is no other choice), I shall ask once more, is a tonearm better off on a single pod, or a double pod? The latter doubles the mass coupl... | |
| Vibration Question @lewm @mijostyn Thank you, gentlemen, for your (expected) answers. But, the question? One pod better than two, or vice versa? @danmar123 Certainly, but it is the same thing as an Acoustand with built-in mount. I like an Englishman with a lathe, a... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay If you're happy, pindac, then we (most of us anyway) are happy. I'm someone who thinks dictionaries should be prescriptive, grammar and punctuation matter, and spelling isn't an art form. However, I'm also comfortable making no end of allowances f... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I should never have thought of using one as an SUT! But then again......no, not a Variac built as a power supply, but if an autoformer would work as an SUT, one could see it being interesting. Variable turns ratio/gain, but coupled with varying l... | |
| Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting An LP cost £2.50 full price when I first bought them. I remember thinking it was the same as a bottle of whisky (which I was not old enough to buy then). | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay Ah, yes, but the wooden surface is the top of a 400lb oak chest from the early 1700s. I cannot get rid of it, nor move it elsewhere, so I must make the best of it. And maybe, just maybe, oak that is nearly 400 years old is just about as dense or ... | |
| Soundsmith cartridges Not at all, @tonyptony , the VAS MC One MkI. The LP-S is still a better cartridge to my ear, but not by a long way. | |
| Zesto Andros 1.2 True, that. I went back to a Quad 24p phono stage after spending six times the cost on a Musical Fidelity NuVista Vinyl. The former sounds better even with all the switches in circuit to allow four cartridges to use it. |