noromance
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? @tomic601 I'll join you on this. Such a gem. The Grateful Dead – American Beauty (Warner Bros. 2011 RE 180) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @noromace There is something to be said for vintage cartridges. @nicks25 Indeedy. My main table has 2 Deccas from the 80s. Like you, I've never bought any major cartridges. Always been a MM tube phono man. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @nicks25 Looks like @chakster is right about those vintage cartridges! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Bobby Hackett – Creole Cookin (Verve 1967) Keely Smith – I Wish You Love (Capitol 1957) Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend (Secretly Canadian 2012) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Firehouse Five Plus Two – The Firehouse Five Story, Vol. 2 (Good Time Jazz 1958) Pergolesi, Evelyn Lear, Christa Ludwig, Lorin Maazel – Stabat Mater (Philips 1966) Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters – Super Blues (Checker 1967) | |
| Phono Preamp upgrade Agree with the above. Upgrade turntable first. | |
| Quicksilver (Non-Remote) Linestage & Croft Micro 25 Basic Preamps I've been using Croft preamps (with built-in phono stage) since the 80s. Very quiet but like any amp, depends on the tubes being low noise. As far as I know, the line stage has unity gain. | |
| TV Mounting Dilemma The way I’ve done it for securing heavy items to basement walls is to mount a piece of plywood on the sheetrock using concrete anchor bolts. Then screw the TV mounting device to the plywood. You’ll need a hammer drill and concrete bit. This way, y... | |
| Strange Problem: Philips 867 Turntable ...Please read I have plugged in turntable directly into wall outlet ...still no power! The power source coming from the RGR preamp switched outlets does not tally with this assertion by the OP. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Short session tonight. Herself cooked another Thanksgiving dinner and the tryptophan kicked in. Sammy Davis Jr., Carmen McRae – Porgy And Bess (Decca 1959) Sarah Vaughan – After Hours With Sarah Vaughan (Columbia 1955 mono) The New Stan Getz Qu... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Nothing’s on my turntable due to some ham fisted moron sending the tonearm flying across the LP @emailists You are not alone. I know another idiot who destroyed a valuable Decca cartridge doing the same thing. Thankfully not recently. | |
| Nobsound springs - load range I have a rock in my second system phono amp. A rock! From the yard. | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? I know it’s good when I have to switch one of these in for extra long listening sessions. (Pic of toilet seat) @dekay Me too. When having a restroom break is the last thing you want to do. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde – The Moon And The Melodies (4AD 1986) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @sbank I’m not sure what’s more amazing- that you got an average price of over $100 each, or that you could afford to part with so many collectibles! I brought in a dozen collectibles and scored a $1250 credit. |