elliottbnewcombjr
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| Thoughts on the Peachtree Nova 300 Peachtree's site: used one, 1 yr warranty $1,099. | |
| Purchased a used Shure V15 Type IV cartridge, looking for stylus br3098 you make some good points. many of the new LPs I buy surprisingly have minor warps, brush not needed if minor, but some existing LPs with real warps you want the brush. A quickie adjustment of tracking force and anti-skate needed. ant... | |
| Advice and recommendations needed for a turntable rig... dogberry "I can change a cartridge and set up the replacement in twenty minutes. If I change the headshell on the one tonearm I have that uses interchangeable headshells, it takes about 10-15 minutes including the set-up of the new cartridge (the... | |
| Purchased a used Shure V15 Type IV cartridge, looking for stylus Yes, brush down, you add .5 grams to tracking weight measurement, move brush up for measurement: measure 2.0 grams, brush down, you will get 1.5 grams. (Shure calculated that the brush pushes up .5g) Thus you set anti-skate at 1.5 grams, not 2.0.... | |
| Purchased a used Shure V15 Type IV cartridge, looking for stylus this, from Stereophile review of Shure V15V IV about Shure’s DAMPED brush "The Damping Brush The V15-IV is equipped with a small, fine-bristled brush mounted directly in front of the stylus and pivoted via damped hinges. The pickup can be used ei... | |
| Choosing a new turntable Perhaps many of you have read that the majority of stylus sent in for checking or re-building are worn on 1 side. IOW, anti-skate is/was off enough (too little/too much) for a long enough time to wear one side (and put more force on one side of yo... | |
| Choosing a new turntable lewm you are correct, it also occured to me they are old designs, many on that list are making fixed these days my point is they all made their reputations with these removable headshell designs. reviewed, recommended, on approved lists .... ... | |
| At what point do you... I always buy used unless no used available, even then I would wait a while, having hifisearch show me that item or category 'first shown, new first'. check every am, bang: strike like a viper. I am confident in my skills to evaluate the seller an... | |
| 12AX7A preamp tubes - ribbed vs smooth plate dinov I don't think the answer (I'd need to ask my friend, we didn't make notes), and it would not be applicable to other phono/pre/amps in any case. I would search for 'rectifier tubes' see what info comes up. perhaps ask Brent Jesse audiotubes... | |
| Choosing a new turntable A search on hishark The following arm makers have models with removable headshells, some removable plates secured by only 1 screw Hifishark 3-16-24 tonearms with removable headshells SME Technics, all the beloved 1200’s, S arm for BP-500 Base ... | |
| Choosing a new turntable mijostyn "@elliottbnewcombjr I hate to pop your bubble, You are not popping my or anyone’s bubble, just exposing your different beliefs/preferences. My preferences: "but one great tonearm is way better than two cheap ones"." NO one said ... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight Ayre's Site: EX-8 2.0 Speaker Output: 100 watts per channel continuous into 8 ohms 170 watts per channel continuous into 4 ohms original ask was for 200 to 300 wpc. I considered 200 wpc a minimum, yes? | |
| Specific Node/Airplay question Sooooo many people here say I should stream, yet nobody answers my questions above. | |
| 12AX7A preamp tubes - ribbed vs smooth plate OP I’m 75, until last year, I thought rectifiers were rectifiers, nothing to do with the sound. My friend had a new Phono Preamp built by .... she included new 'broken in' tubes as well as some spare used tubes. We listened here, changed tubes,... | |
| Choosing a new turntable Thorens/SME similar appearance to your 3 options ebay, search for: Vintage Thorens TD520 3012-R Turntable With Power Adapter Operation Confirmed 2 out of 3, 2. removable headshell, the renowned SME 3012 arm (I loved my 3009 on Thorens TD124) ... |