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| Analog is the new pink I am putting together a bunch of jazz LPs of which I own duplicate copies to give to my 29-year-old nephew. Last time I visited his home in Michigan, I was happily surprised to see a turntable in a small cabinet system. He actually remarked that t... | |
| Technics SP-10 + SME 3009 S2 Improved Tim, Hypothetically, he could have adjusted the voltage out of the outboard power supply. There are 3 DC voltages supplied to the main chassis via the umbilical, and each can be adjusted separately, as you probably know. However, the OP has not cl... | |
| Garrard 301-Worth the effort? The AF products look beautiful, no doubt about it. Beauty is what they are selling and rightfully so. However, I really do not think that they have a bunch of physicists working for them who scientifically calculated the design of the plinth so as... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? This issue was mentioned earlier in the eternal thread; after 20-30 years on the shelf, the compliance of an actual sample of any MM, especially if NOS, may be quite a bit lower than the advertised value. Give it time and use and maybe it will loo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Alex7333, If you have a Cardas test LP, bands 2a thru 2c are excellent for breaking in a cartridge. At the end of band 2c, the cartridge is prevented from going further across the LP; you have to lift it at that point and re-start it at the beginn... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Wow! I got a lot of people excited with my seeming anti-supertweeter sentiment. My decision-making is purely based on what makes me happy in my listening room. While I concede that a super-tweeter can add "something" to the extreme high frequencie... | |
| Tube table top radios Dear Al, You've sent me off looking on ebay for art deco style tube radios. I even considered bidding on one, but I know nothing about the value system. I love tubes and I love art deco style, so it's a natural for me. I really liked a Crosley tab... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I actually re-heated my morning coffee by placing it squarely in line with a laser beam from the Timeline whilst it was rotating on my Mk3 which was playing a Wagnerian opera using an old Decca spherical stylus cartridge that tracks at 4 gm..... J... | |
| Tube table top radios If you want new and are taken by 60s nostalgia, I can recommend the solid state Tivoli Model One radio, which is a dead ringer for the KLH table radio that everyone owned in the 60s. After looking at them in other people's homes for years, I just ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy We interrupt this program for one comment on tt speed accuracy: For those of you who have been holding your breath for a report on the speed accuracy of my SP10 Mk3, results are in: Perfect! I am so relieved I am going to sit down now with a stiff... | |
| What's a 30-year old Grace F9-E Ruby worth? Try mounting it (if it's not already mounted( and playing a record. I know it's a very esoteric notion, but you could try it. I intend to do that with mine, today or tomorrow. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I respect the work of Kuzma, Driessen, and Yorke, from a distance. I only say what I say about Lurne' because of my experience with his earliest Audiomeca product. And my opinion should really mean nothing. As I once told you, were I to be in the ... | |
| What's a 30-year old Grace F9-E Ruby worth? I don't get it. Is the OP selling his Grace Ruby or trying to establish its value for posterity, or what? If it's in good shape, $250 is a steal, and I would buy it if I had not just paid twice as much for one. | |
| Cart recommendations for Fidelity Research FR-64S Dear Mauidj et al,FWIW, The Soundsmith cartridges, other than the strain gauge ones, are moving iron (MI) types, not MM. Peter Ledermann would not want that to go unsaid, as he is a proponent of MI as well as of the strain gauge. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Nikola, Without saying unkind words about his products that have been sold in the US, I just cannot put Lurne' in the pantheon of great tt designers. Perhaps he marketed some tt's exclusively in Europe that were exceptional. For the past 20 y... |