mulveling
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| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? A number of years ago I saw lots of K’s on Ebay with gold pins. At the time, all K came with silver pins, or so it seemed. Also some poorly made bamboo boxes. @mulveling would know if these were genuine. @terry9 Some (most?) of the older Koets... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? I have owned many Koetsu’s over the years and either bought new or used from reputable sellers. The rebuilds from Koetsu and Anna Mighty sound are the only way to go, I have had several Cartridges from Anna Mighty Sound and they are absolutely t... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? So a quality 3rd party service provider like Expert Stylus is unable to retain the sole plate? @neonknight I’m not sure. I think it would be far easier to apply a whole new cantilever & stylus mounting (sourced from the Japanese supplier)... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? @neonknight For comparison, here is a typical Benz (or Van den hul etc) mounting. You can usually spot this from much lower magnification. Only the very tip of the diamond pokes out from the glue! I’ve seen examples where so little tip is expose... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? @neonknight Here’s my vintage Musashino Onyx, rebuilt by Koetsu a few years ago. Note the metal "shoe" on the side facing the record, with bulk of the glue used on other side. I’ve seen cleaner examples of this lol. And here’s their diamond ... | |
| Have There Ever Been Fake Koetsu? I keep eyes on the various markets and haven’t ever seen any Koetsu bodies that would give me concern. I’ve had 6 Koetsu in my hands - about half from used market, some purchased new from dealer, most the the used ones have gone through rebuild vi... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum I’ve had almost 30 MCs over 15 years at this point, and only 1 incident that wasn’t perpetrated by myself. With discipline, common sense, and a little knowledge about how these things work, it’s not really hard to keep from damaging them - unless ... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red ALL electronics should be marked clearly on all sides of the package "FRAGILE - GLASS CONTENTS - DO NOT DROP" When the drivers see "GLASS" they take notice. Otherwise for all they know it is a book or t-shirt, etc. I really don't think they c... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red I have a beautiful Quicksilver full function preamplifier that I have sold twice via Audiogon and which came back to me twice, both times because boutique capacitors that I had installed as very effective tweaks, to the benefit of the recipient, ... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @mijostyn I’ll happily avoid MusicDirect and MoFi for all future purchases, on your behalf. The digital master one-steps debacle didn’t disturb me that much, but this does. | |
| Advice needed with Tube Power Amps I’m not sure why that model would be any more difficult to sell than any other discontinued/superseded tube amp? Tube amps are generally a hard sale due to weight/shipping, the particular fickleness of this segment of market, and recent skittishne... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum I had the stylus disappear from the cantilever of a Clearaudio Charisma. I took a microphotograph off the cantilever and emailed it to Musical Surroundings. I had a brand new cartridge and a shipping label for the old one in four days. Fortunatel... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. A new speaker rig in an unfamiliar room can be quite the challenge. You just have to work at it, and iterate. Get furnishings in there. Position, position, position. Experiment. Get external input. Have friends over. Explore acoustic treatments. D... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights I’ve found the sonic distinctions between various weights & clamps to be subtle at best. That said, over time I’ve settled on Stillpoints LPI as favorite. The real value of a center weight comes when used in conjunction with a ring clamp to e... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Those UPS,FEDEX, USPS, and Amazon delivery guys work very hard every day, often for much longer than 8 hours to meet a quota. Give them some credit. This minor incident is being blown way out of proportion in my opinion. Hear hear. They do a gr... |