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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Brooke Waggoner – Originator (Swoon Moon Music 2013) Buddy Tate / Humphrey Lyttelton – Kansas City Woman (Black Lion 1975) Loudon Wainwright III – Unrequited (Columbia 1975)  
Synergistic Orange and purple fuses popping
Can you leave the preamp switched on and only use the power supply switch to power it up thus avoiding the surge?  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Schubert - The Fine Arts Quartet And Members Of The New York Woodwind Quintet With Harold Siegel - Octet In F Major, Opus 166 For Strings And Winds ( Concert Disk 1961)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jane Morgan With The Troubadors – Fascination (Kapp 1957 mono) How can a 65 year old record sound better than current ones?  
Turntable Resonance Solution
@astolfor Understood. That's why I'm in the basement on 5" of concrete on a few acres. Turntable is on concrete blocks as various racks suffered from acoustic feedback. Swapping out cones for springs was a revelation.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jane Morgan With The Troubadors – All The Way (London 1958 mono) Simply magic. Hi Jim!  
Turntable Resonance Solution
@astolfor In fairness, you have some serious hi-end tables there with their own suspension/damping systems.  
Broken Tube Guide Key
👍 Have fun. And don't wiggle power tubes again!  
The worst sentence in audio writing
Well, there is that. If I play the same track on the other tonearm/cartridge on my table, I could easily claim the same effect.  It depends, but every single time I've read this from a reviewer they equate "different" with "better."  
Turntable Resonance Solution
Just think, you could have got the same results with $35 worth of springs! https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/springs-under-turntable    
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jane Morgan – The Second Time Around (Kapp 1961 mono)  
Broken Tube Guide Key
Yes. You should be able to see where it broke off and align it up with the expected position on the socket.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Brian, test it in an incognito/private browser window.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Carolyn Hester – Carolyn Hester (Tradition 1961 mono) Her voice.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@bkeske Vaughan Williams photo MIA. Unapologetic copying of what you're doing 🙂 except I'm copying the live image URL from Discogs so no hosting needed.