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| Mapleshade tweaks I think the guy has good ears. I replaced the stock base on a Spacedeck with one of their 4" maple blocks and it was a huge difference. Better in all ways. Am seriously thinking of getting the maple bases for my Totem floorstanders which have been... | |
| Bill Firebaugh: How to contact? Ok, this thread is stale, but I felt the need to clarify something I mentioned before... I discovered that when you reach the Well Tempered website and click "Upgrades and Service" you still get the old 2004 menu of parts and services but no curre... | |
| Bill Firebaugh: How to contact? Yes Don, but I swear a few weeks ago it was showing a new site with new prices. Now it has vanished. Another odd thing was that only the record player and the reference were listed. No more Classic. Also no offer of the old repair services like re... | |
| Bill Firebaugh: How to contact? I'm guessing (hoping) that bill will take back the rains and resurrect the company. You probably know all this but others might find it interesting...Looks to me like he got bored and sold the rights to Transparent. Then they got discouraged by dw... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame I can think of a bunch of them, but, how about Bill Firebaugh of Well Tempered. Here is an example of real ingenuity and thinking out of the box. Whether you like the sound of his turntables or not, you have to admit it shows original thinking. Lo... | |
| Pro-ject Tube Box SEII setting with Blackbird cart It all comes down to the mv. output of the cart. Yes it is a MC, but, it has the high output of a typical MM. Use the MM input. Not sure if plugging it into the MC input would hurt anything, but, I wouldn't try it. I did this myself years ago out ... | |
| Jimmy Page? Thanks to all, I knew you guys would know more about this than I do. I grew up with Led Zep, but haven't been paying too much attention lately. Hearing Led Zep #I cranked up in a Lafayette Radio store is what started my audiophile life. I think it... | |
| Am waiting for a well tempered classic turntable It will blow away your Sota. Set it up carefully and be careful how and where you site it. I am assuming it doesn't have the damping adjustment like on the Reference arm, so you are relieved from all that extra tweaking. See my comments on the cur... | |
| Tracking Force Gauges Remember that the most important thing about any guage is whether or not it measures the tracking weight at the same arm height as when the stylus is in the groove. The Shure doesn't, and some of the digital ones don't either. The importance of th... | |
| Magnepan lover, which one do you choose? I hate to say it because I still like the Magnepan products and would buy them again if I wanted to dedicate the space to get the most out out of them. But, beware of any older speakers. These designs have a problem with the voice coil wires delam... | |
| Cheap Audio Technica AT95e crushing my Garrot K1 Actually, I wish this kind of thing would happen more often. Lucky you. | |
| Well Tempered lab It is silicon. The platter bearing is much thinner than the arm damping fluid which is almost like thin grease. If you are thinking of finding some locally rather than paying the high price for the oem stuff you may or may not end up with the inte... | |
| Mixing speaker cable for Bass & Treble My experience with the AQ Green Hyperlitz, which is of similar design, is that using two runs to the speaker sounds better than 1 run to the tweeter and 1 run to the woofer. To improve the sound with biwiring, you need to have 2 runs to the woofer... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. Get a Turntable | |
| Proceed PCD 1 CD Player I'm still using mine. Was reviewed in Stereophile and I believe it was earlier, maybe 1990. I no longer have the magazines so I can't tell you which month. Search their archives. This was Madrigal's first Proceed product and came out right around ... |