mgreene
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey Al, et al, Read the review of the Trans-fi Terminator on Enjoy the Music. The reviewer makes the point that it costs about the same as a souped up Rega but is in a higher league, sound-wise. My newish system seems to be coming together all at ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Sounds pretty cool. I love my vintage living room system, and on a smaller scale, I also really like my Advent table radio in the work shop - it's amazing how they were able to get early SS to sound like tubes. But at the same time, early SS instr... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II HI Lewm, I missed the last sentance of your post. Sorry to take off on your point. After re-reading Ricks post, I see that he didnt really leave in a huff, he just declined to continue and in a fairly gentlemanly way too. Maybe he mistook Jean's u... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Am I the only one who has read the reviews of the big SME tables that almost uniformly say that they are dry and uninvolving? Rick is obviously a well healed and experienced audiophile and I respect his opinion in the context of his post but I don... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I had never heard that HP recommends 47K but I have always wondered about folks that say that such and such a cartridge sounds better loaded at 50 ohms or 100 ohms. They always sound better to me at 47K - I even built a fancy resistor switching sc... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Very interesting - and even handed too. Who ever said that this thread was all about hyperbole? :) I can vouch for the fact that a cartridge that needs to be loaded at 47K sounds terrible at 1K or lower - killing the air. So, in a way, the results... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Speaking of vintage speakers, I still like my Dynaco's in my vintage living room system. However, I finally heard something that just didnt sound good on this system - a bass heavy Bill Laswell Axiom number. It left me pining for my 211's and some... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey Jean, One thing I know about practically anything new mentioned on Salvatore's site, I wont be able to afford it :) I am glad we already own the uber table, HA! Speaking of clamps, I have never been able to come to a conclusion about using a c... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Ok, I have been following this. Are we talking about slate over plywood/mdf or just a slate (only) plinth?Has anyone actually worked slate with woodworking tools? The only web reference that I found recommended a jigsaw.Finally I would hope that a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Nice job Jean!Fascinated as usual, I went to the web and found that most tables using a ceramic bearing do not have the hard steel thrust plate or anything like the the dimpled pads like we have on the Lenco. The thrust pads were: - bronze thrust ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I made a post recently on Lenco Lovers about my fancy new CD player having sonically bypassed my Lenco (in my vintage living room system). Well over the weekend, I finally rewired my Sonus arm with the Cardas wire and purple sattelite wire (Thanks... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey Jean. Had a productive weekend. I put Giant #2 back on the workbench and filled some small holes and ran some tests to tint the top black to contrast with the G99 that I epoxy painted white. Next task is to make a template and cutout the arm b... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks - Jean. I think I'll sand on my GIANT #2 tomorrow. You know what I mean :)MIke | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II 10-4 Jean - got it! Cut once and if it is too short cut it again :0) About the Decca metal tonearm - can you post a pic or a link to this model. I have seen many Decca arms for sale since you talked about it but I dont recognize the difference pla... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean - I have been itching to ask a question regarding tonearms. As I still sometimes read the old thread (dull afternoons at work) your raves about certain older tonearms remain fresh in my mind. Now that you have the Dynavector and the RS-A1 to ... |