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| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum The original "Mingus-Ah-Um" is already sooo good, it would be hard to beat or to mess up in reissue. LIkewise, "Tijuana Moods". I would not have been in favor of that lawsuit, if anyone was taking a poll, because in the end we need to keep compan... | |
| TT cable question Ya know, I wanted to call it a "spade lug", but then I started to think about spade connectors and was fearful of misleading the OP. "Fork-like" is vivid, I thought. | |
| PS Audio Stellar phono question I think it is true balanced, but consult PS Audio directly is my advice. | |
| TT cable question If you are in single-ended mode using RCA termination, then you do not have to worry about a separate ground between phono and linestage. The interconnection does that. However you likely but not always need a separate ground wire between tonearm ... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum This discussion has veered toward the Abby Normal. (See “Frankenstein, Young” created by Mel Brooks et al.) | |
| Studer A807 Knock1, your critique is spot on. No need to apologize. OP might get relevant responses on some other forum dedicated to tape or even on What’s Best Forum. Many of those guys are tape aficionados. | |
| Modwright PH 9.0X Tube Rolling Question Travis, I can only tell you that if you look up what tube rectifiers are cross-compatible with the 274B, the only tube that comes up is 5U4G. I leave it to you to do further research. One other found fact: the 274B does not like to be followed by... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum "5000%"? That's 50-fold. So the "American Importer" was charging, e.g., $5000 for what cost $100 in Japan? Really? | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum If Sotheby were to auction off Mijo’s cartridge, it would fairly be termed "pre-owned, original", in my opinion. In the fine print, they would mention the bit about the defect and that it was repaired. But as long as it still has its OEM cantileve... | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? I went to my doctor. He said I needed an operation. I said, "Doc, I'd like another opinion." He said, "OK, you're ugly." .... Rodney Dangerfield. | |
| Vacuuming after ultrasonic vinyl cleaning ”What’s all this fuss about presidential erections?” | |
| What is turntable “liveliness”. .05% of 33.33 rpm is 0.01666 rpm. I doubt any turntable one can buy is accurate within +/-.01666 rpm, but I do agree that absolute speed accuracy is overrated. Rather, speed constancy is what differentiates among turntables, the capacity to hold ... | |
| Vacuuming after ultrasonic vinyl cleaning Any of several anti-static devices or strategies actually does work to reduce accumulated static charge on an LP surface. I acquired a meter to measure static charge in order to prove that for myself. Even the lowly Zerostat works to reduce the c... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Mike, When you use the word "filament", what actually was it? A hair? Or a piece of fine wire that wandered in during the manufacturing process? But it probably was not a conductor else your L channel would have been shorted out from new. Yes? Co... | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... Snake oil is not a good conductor. |