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| Tubes trouble? Not a good idea to remove tubes leaving a socket or sockets empty, and then power on. Unless of course ARC directly gives their verbal consent. Also, even if you could get away with it without damaging the power supply or downstream equipment, it... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights Depends upon the TT drive system, whether there is potential to damage the bearing or drag on the motor. Some use what I view as ridiculously heavy weights, 500g and much more. I would stay at or below 250g, as an arbitrary rule of thumb. Clamps c... | |
| Tubes trouble? Dill’s idea is not a bad one. A shield should both quell microphonics and shield from RF. (But the tubes in an ARC may already be shielded.) You might also check that the unit is well grounded. When you touch it, your body affords another path to ... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Those UPS,FEDEX, USPS, and Amazon delivery guys work very hard every day, often for much longer than 8 hours to meet a quota. Give them some credit. This minor incident is being blown way out of proportion in my opinion. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights There’s a difference between a clamp and a weight, both in weight and function. | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Good luck filing a claim for damages with UPS, especially over an issue such as this one. | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red If that porcelain teacup was not damaged during its trip down a flight of stairs whilst strapped in to a barrel or whatever, that cartridge was not even fazed by its 3-4 foot drop inside its confined and padded environment. Let’s imagine what that... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Cartridges are fixed in place inside a larger usually rectangular container. Then too for shipping your cartridge was certainly double boxed. Did you ever see one of those videos where they’ve strapped delicate teacup into the bottom of a garbage... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Dear Wizzzard , I am very sorry that you are plagued by your illness. I wish you well, and I also hope your wife will soon conquer her medical problems. As for me, I release you from any perceived obligation to respond to any of my real or imagine... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum That’s what she said. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" cleeds, Now I am a bit confused. Above, you wrote, "As I mentioned @lewm , I use a Klaudio US cleaner and have a conventional OG Nitty-Gritty. I don’t find that either cleaner requires alcohol to remove common contaminants." Here you are saying ... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Good to know you would stop short of trying to repair or re-wind a coil in a LOMC cartridge. | |
| Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable In defense of Jason, I think he meant to be in total agreement with Mijostyn and ghd. Any turntable fits his metaphor. The goal is to make the TT as insensitive as possible to “seismographic” disturbances. This is analog gospel. | |
| Integrityhifi TRU-GLIDER Pendulum Tonearm So can any one of the happy users of this tonearm tell me whether it is meant to be set up so that the stylus tip underhangs the spindle? In other words, is the spindle to pivot distance greater than the pivot to stylus distance? Thx | |
| Matching the cartridge to the phono stage dhite71, Do you see that there is more to it than just whether the phono stage has adequate gain for the cartridge? Cartridges and phono stages are often blamed for match up failures when really the blame ought to lie with the audiophile who trie... |