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| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! Uber makes a good point. A properly restored 301 or 401 purchased at a fair price is very fungible. | |
| Do any still use an older high end tuner from the past?.... Like rpeluso, I use a Luxman T110. In my audio life, I have owned two different Marantz 10Bs, as well, and I have lusted for a Sequerra. But it doesn't make sense these days to spend so much on a tuner. | |
| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! The Rega, the Lenco, and the Linn LP12 probably speak 3 entirely different turntable languages. The SOTA might even speak a 4th language. So if you are a buyer, the best thing to do a priori is to figure out which characteristics you like best a... | |
| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! I guess I will be castigated for saying this, but my impression is that Garrard work done in the UK is on average lower in bang for the buck than similar work sourced in the US. This could be in part because Garrard and other UK products have suc... | |
| Rega P10 v Complete rebuild Garrard 401! You'd lose nothing on the Garrard, if you were to decide to sell it. And probably the same goes for the Rega, if you can find one for the right price. But these are very different philosophies of how to play a record. I would expect that one's ... | |
| In praise of the mighty SOTA Sapphire What is “the money”? Which is to ask how much would one pay for a Star Sapphire ? | |
| speed controller for Lenco or Garrard Bill, "Condor" refers to the PSU supplied with the Eclipse kit by SOTA? | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Just for the record, what I wrote and what I had in mind have nothing to do with tonearm length. The same rules apply no matter what the length, and I was not meaning to advocate for 9-inch tonearms. | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Chakster, on the issue of graphite vs slate, I do owe you an apology if you were talking about mats in the first place and not plinths. The OP was asking about plinths, and I assumed you were referring to plinths made by OMA, which are, or were l... | |
| VPI Turntable Motor Pop - Did I Damage My Analog System? I am not sure this has anything to do with static charge build-up. If you solder a .01uF ceramic capacitor across the switch that seems to be implicated, that will eliminate popping due to the switch. Also, as someone else said, and despite the ... | |
| speed controller for Lenco or Garrard With my Lenco I use the 25W Eagle PS, If the Eclipse PS is ~25W, you’re good. | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Chakster wrote that Oswald Mills Audio plinth is made of graphite. That is incorrect. They are made of Pennsylvania slate. Slate and graphite are two different things. Also, perhaps paradoxically, use of a heavier counterweight could have the effe... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. I forgot to mention that any store that sells 100 LPs for $28 cannot rightfully be expected to be a source of mint condition LPs. Or else they are selling polka records. | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. No record cleaning machine in the world can compensate for what you call “beat up” records. Beat up records are records that have been damaged by worn out styli or incorrect tone arm geometry or too much or too little tracking force. Once LPs are ... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 kanchi, I think OMA was known and is known for slate plinths, not granite. Many of the cognoscenti who have tried granite (I have not) were underwhelmed and preferred slate. Furthermore, there is a wonderful low production turntable based on the ... |