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| Vintage turntable running fast, any ideas? If your platter turns with the constant speed all you can do is to place arround the platter pulley rubberband making the diameter larger so decreasing the rotations of the platter. Try to "dress" different rubber bands so to get the most precise ... | |
| Once Upon A Time In... Phil, What about Godfather? Star Wars? Once Upon A Time In America is generally ~2x the length of an average Hollywood movie but all you have to do is just spare the time, sit and watch from beginning to the end where every episode MAKES sence no ... | |
| Get an amp or cd player In your case the starting point should replace HK receiver by either separates or integrated 2champ. My first integrated amp was Creek 4330R and I believe that this unit is excellent for the monitors or floor standers with small woofer(under 4"). ... | |
| Looking for a preamp with remote for phone What is your power amplifier?If it's sencitive with high gain and input impedance I would recommend Placette passive preamp with remote control.Before going to expencive ~$1500 Placette you can experiment with Creek OBH14 input selector/remote vol... | |
| Once Upon A Time In... I also have an LD which I spent more than $30 but it was worth it. Yes, my mistake... it's by Sergio Leone.I've got notious watching it yesterday on AMC: either we shouln't show it at all or show it in full version. It is definitely not for kids a... | |
| I'm in the mood to make mods. ...i'm still overlooking your post with open amp bottom...I believe that chasis is the last thing to do...I have stepped attenuators in my passive preamp...I believe that once your warranty is ended you can modify instead of upgrade with better re... | |
| budget cleaning ideas for garage sale records? Patrick, want to thank you again here for communicating with me to set up the tonearm!You're hell of an effort guy! I confess that I wouldn't ever launder vinyls so heavy -- slight damages maybe or I won't place them under my Lyra Helikon. I belie... | |
| Cartridge Loading... The solution is not to be hardly consearned and just plug and play. The bottom line might be that you won't need any higher loads. If you hear the music mushy and dim with big deal of rolled off high freequencies than you might consider to replace... | |
| Best integrated tube amp for 1500? I will stand for Stingray if you don't need more than 50W/ch. I will acquire it someday to biamp my speakers for the mids and highs, but it only worth $1500 when you buy it used. | |
| budget cleaning ideas for garage sale records? R U guys serious cleaning records with alcohol or soap???50% of alcohol will make the grooves flat(forgive me for exhageration but in some way it's true). I do recognise vinyls cleaned with alcohol that have unremovable and visible traces and I be... | |
| Phono Cartridge recommendation Dynavector 10X4 is the ideal cartridge in your case. it has 2.5mV output and more musical than Sumiko BPS.You can also consider deals on Sumiko BPS. I've used it but found it someway too agressive and edgy(maybe I didn't break it in and sold it af... | |
| Converting to Analog Is there VPI or Nitty Gritty or...or...or jacket cleaner????:^) Ho the hell is it possible to clean an inner sleaves?? I doubdt that vacume cleaner will be much of a help.In fact I always have a couple of hundreds new inner sleaves and would never... | |
| How to ascertain speaker damage? Sean, I had the same situation dropping the small monitor aka Kef C10. The volume arround 10pm isn't realy critical for the right speaker/amp combo and should be taken with ease. If the balance control isn't present you can disconnect the other ch... | |
| Differences between MM or MC/Recommendations? To mention 2juki I've acquired from him Lyra Helikon for $1200 brand spanking new. I figured out that I really do not need Immedia's warranties on that since they're all don't make any sence becides I've got it at arround 45% discount. | |
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