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| LP Reissues Comparison - Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Got the original Verve and the MFSL versions | |
| Help! Antiskate with only a weight...no dial, and she's skating away! Dear cab , it is not quite the case that “most“ of us do not think anti-skate is necessary. It seems to me that stringreen is the only one of us who consistently maintains that anti-skate is unnecessary, and he is using a VPI tonearm, which is not... | |
| If you have a Steelhead- Lest I be chastised as I was once before by Dover, for suggesting incompatible tube substitutions, I hasten to point out that although the 6CG7 and 12FQ7 (and the 6FQ7) are identical to a 12AU7 in electrical parameters, one cannot blithely sub the... | |
| If you have a Steelhead- You know what, Dover? I wouldn’t argue with what you say about CF tubes. When I wrote what I wrote, it might have been in spite of my own experience. At least where I got rid of a 12AU7 and replaced it with any electrically similar substitute, e.g... | |
| If you have a Steelhead- I forgot to mention that I think the Steelhead is a great unit, made greater by a few mods. But if you are using it as a phono only stage, then my upgrades would do less for the SQ. The very same CF and coupling capacitors that couple the output... | |
| Ilford Ilfotol use after expiring date Standard nonionic detergents like triton x100 and tween20 last “forever”, so maybe this is not a nonionic type. I’d have to look at the formula.On second glance, the very name suggests it is for washing photos. So it probably has certain additives... | |
| If you have a Steelhead- Just out of curiosity, in the Herron what tube type does the 7DJ8 replace? | |
| If you have a Steelhead- The 7044s, or any of the several congeners of the 7044, in the Steelhead are not "rectifiers", first because 7044s are dual triodes, not rectifiers, and then because they serve as White Cathode Followers in the Steelhead, which is just a fancy cat... | |
| Equalization for vinyl nirvana To be fair to graphic equalizers, I admit that my opinion of them is now based on old data. Once I had heard several that were commonly available in the "old days", meaning more than 20 years ago, I gave up. Plus, the trend for the past 30 years... | |
| Help! Antiskate with only a weight...no dial, and she's skating away! I stand corrected. The stylus is not sliding all the way across the LP, as I first thought. Based on the second paragraph of the OP and the third paragraph, I am beginning to wonder whether there is any problem at all. I don’t think it is so unusu... | |
| Help! Antiskate with only a weight...no dial, and she's skating away! What strikes me is that the thing is behaving in a surprising way for the problem to be just lack of any AS. Any of us can null out his AS and play an LP; the stylus does not go skipping across the surface of the LP toward the spindle, as a resul... | |
| AudioMachina V8 At least there is some real world logic to it, and the ad copy says nothing about "quantum" or "nano"-anything. The question would be whether absorbing the vibrational energy at the headshell is a good thing, or not. I suspect that if it works, i... | |
| Equalization for vinyl nirvana Clearthinker, the two devices that the OP says he would consider buying to solve his problem are not classic equalizers. Both afford ways of messing with RIAA equalization. Actually, though I personally wouldn’t go there, either of those devices i... | |
| Tonearm Ground Loop Michael Percy Audio can supply several different wires of a gauge suitable to tonearm wiring. His catalog is on line. Ditto for several other boutique parts vendors. | |
| 30 foot long Balanced Cables to Balanced/RCA Adapters into Amp's Stereo RCA inputs? Those Cardas adapters are excellent quality if you don’t mind a SE connection to an SE device. With the Jensen you retrieve some of the benefits of balanced. I haven’t thought about this in years, so I leave it to Atma-sphere. |