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| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Sounds like I could "borrow" my son's Variac, connect it up backwards, and have a step-up autoformer! | |
| Step Up Transformer Question @rmdmoore I use a SoluPeak 4-way switch from Amazon. I can’t tell the difference with it in circuit, or connecting the tonearm directly. If you want to just run two carts, there is a Rek-o-Kut switch that also seems very quiet. I have a couple of ... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @cleeds The first iteration of the OWC Mercury Pro, which was where the exact same make and model of disk limitation arose. OWC could not sell me a replacement disk of the same model. Newer versions allow the disks to be mounted as a JBOD, and I p... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay And may I wish you, and all here, a merry Christmas also. Digital library? I tried ripping all my CDs and had a disk failure in a hardware RAID array that required the exact same model of disk to replace a failed drive. They had been discontinued... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay @pindac I may be getting dense in my dotage, but the ChatGPT did make sense of your question! If it was correct about your thesis, I concur with it. It is certainly possible to attain the desired degree of vinyl playback without spending ludicrous... | |
| Step Up Transformer Question You could do worse than ask Steve Leung whether his VAS transformer would suit your cartridges. I have the MkI version (there is now a MkII) and I have four low output cartridges feeding it through a switch (LP-S, Ruby 3 mono conversion, Ortofon K... | |
| Asking for members blessings on Nagaoka MP 300 purchase I’m currently playing a Harvey Andrews ("Friends of Mine" gatefold, 1973) album through the MP-500 on a Rega RB330 on an Acoustand pod (it’s how I play unknown vinyl to protect more valuable styli). I think my wife brought this album into our join... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape I know little about R2R machines. But in late 1978, my fiancée and I hosted a party in a flat in Putney that was my girlfriend’s parents’ pied-à-terre, using my (later, but now deceased) father-in-law’s tape deck. A compilation tape made goodness ... | |
| Polishing a Micro Seiki RT 3000G Gunmetal platter Metal polish (Brasso, Flitz etc) and a soft cloth and some elbow grease will do the job. If you're feeling lazy you could lightly use a Dremel with a buffing wheel. I've never polished a platter, but I do use such polishes, jeweller's pastes and ... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum I do have one non disclosure agreement which I can not discuss. I bet that's related to hiding how much you spend on audiophilia from your family... | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking I think I'm correct in remembering Expert Stylus used to service Decca cartridges, but only by sending them on to John Wright. Perhaps that's what they did with the Ikeda too. BTW, back all the way to the OP: I have heard Decca cartridges make no... | |
| Turntable choice for mono records @mijostyn You're missing out, but being a grown-up, you do you! I have no perception of stereo, having only one ear. But I still perceive a benefit from a mono cartridge playing a mono recording: much less surface noise. Since my mono records are ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Moved on to Furtwangler's 1951 Beethoven 9th, and smiled some more. Then the 1967 Parlophone mono Sgt. Pepper. I think it sounds better than the pristine modern stereo re-release, despite having had a hard life (bought used in 1968 by my brother, ... | |
| VAS MC One Transformer Thanks, all. I’m experimenting with the two inputs, and whilst both sound remarkably nice, the low/47Ω input sounds as if it has a richer, fuller bass than the high/100Ω input (maybe I’m being fooled by an increase in volume: 17.3dB vs. 10.9dB). I... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Currently playing Sibelius 2nd, Tauno Hannikainen, Sinfonia of London, 1959. Sounds delightful, and definitely quieter than playing this old mono record with a stereo cartridge. |