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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Those great speakers of the 50s have never gone out of fashion for some and are now in a mini-Renaissance of sorts, as more and more folks tire of modern, constricted, and dead sounding "hi-fi" speakers that need 250W of transistor power to make t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Don't really know why I continue to use the clamp (as a record weight, really). Probably it has something to do with a deep-seated insecurity, perhaps some fear that if not weighted down, the LP will rise from the platter like a flying saucer. I a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I've been using my Sota Reflex clamp with my Giant direct-coupled Lenco. But honestly, I don't hear any difference with it vs without it, for better or for worse. I don't activate the clamp mechanism; I just let the clamp ride on the spindle. I th... | |
| Do enzymes only live for 8 hours What's the problem? Enzymes degrade slowly over time; they don't go away suddenly after 8 hours. Different enzymes in solution will lose activity at different rates, and temperature and buffer content are other factors that will determine the rate... | |
| Do enzymes only live for 8 hours Biologist here. All enzymes ARE proteins. It is folly to make generalizations about the lifespan of the activity of an enzyme, because they are all different. However, they can be grouped based on their specificity, half-life (time it takes to los... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II 700th post on this thread. Just had to do it. | |
| Koetsu Restoration Mark, You wrote, "My pre-amp is a Mcintosh C220 and it has about 64 db of gain, would this be enough for the Black? and if so what would kind of step up would be a good idea?"There is an internal contradiction in your question. If the gain of the ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Mario, I do appreciate your efforts, too, and I most of all appreciate Dave Pogue who was kind enough to invite me to his home last year to listen to a JN-built Lenco. I've got my own now, and I'm happy as a clam. But I also do not think that you ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I was worried also about (i) how to bolt my Triplanar onto a slate surface, and (ii) whether the slate surface of the tonearm mount can be made perfectly flat and plane parallel to the turntable chassis. If I did it, I would use the "Reinderspeter... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II So, Mosin and Hxt1, based on your personal experiences with building from slate, it would seem that the prices of the two commercial products are not at all out of line. Would you agree? (Of the two, I favor Jonathan Weiss' plinth, because it is f... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Mosin, Yes I remember quite well the details of the argument between the Welsh and the US slate plinth-makers. The photo of the slate roof going to seed was a real hoot for its irrelevance and scare tactic. And I agree, from an empirical reasoning... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hxt1, No need to apologize here for what you may have written on the LL forum. The tete a tete between the Welsh and Pennsylvania slate deck makers on the Vinyl Asylum was pretty hostile and revealed two fairly closed minds. I am sure you slate-er... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II John, If your explanation of the cause of the sonic difference between Garrard and Lenco is correct, then then replacing the stock Garrard platter with a heavier one that does have its additional weight concentrated on its periphery (a la the Shin... | |
| Grand Prix Audio Monaco Turntable Downunder, Gosh those Stradivarii are beautiful to behold! Wouldn't the GPM pair quite well with your speakers and amps, since the latter are both on the "warm" side (in a good way of course)? | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hxt1, Which slatedeck are you using, the one made in the UK or the one made in Pennsylvania, USA? Neither is "cheap", as far as I know. |