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Anybody here buy a cartridge from 'highendbroker' ?
@lewm  Oh yeah, remember Chakster? He's the guy who loved his Stantons and Pickerings!   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Robin Williamson – Songs Of Love And Parting (Claddagh 1981)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hawkwind – Warrior On The Edge Of Time (United Artists 1975 UK)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Amazing. Fleet Foxes.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (Interscope 2019) Halsey – Badlands (Astralwerks 2015) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop 2008)  
Modern Covers of Classics
Birdy - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)  
Modern Covers of Classics
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)  
Modern Covers of Classics
Lucy Ward - Common People (Pulp)  
Garrard 301 - Project
@lalitk Indeed. I may have even advised that at one stage!   
Is It Worh Modding An Amp
You could roll the tubes.  
Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble?
@lalitk How about starting off with a top MM like a Nagaoka MP500 to get the turntable and phono amplification ball running? (I only use Decca cartridges on my 401 tables) You might be surprised, and it will, at least give you a reference point of... 
Garrard 301 - Project
@lalitk Checked out the new 301 and plinth. Looks great. I see Matthew went with the standard rubber idler and not the Audiosilente one.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
All of the things that could go wrong!  I'm more concerned about my neck alignment.  
Tone arm length
I've 9" and 12" Jelco 850 arms on a well-fettled 401 so I can make direct comparisons. Bass is a little tighter and the overall sound slightly drier on the 9". The 12" has more authority, liquidness and musicality with more dimension to the sounds... 
Comparison of two High Quality Steely Dan Aja records....
What's the consensus on the 1977 ABC UK pressing?