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noromance

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Whats on your turntable tonight?
On the Town soundtrack. Broadway 1971. On Columbia Masterworks. Clean dynamic detailed recording.   
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Just bought this on Amazon for $5 and change. The Black Swans -Don't Blame The Stars. Check it out.  
LED turntable lamps/lights
Don't mod your turntable. It will negatively impact its value.  
Spend my $1000 on a turntable
SpinClean for cleaning. Do not underestimate this device. 
How do you store and catalog your vinyl?
Further to the above, I do keep artists together. 
How do you store and catalog your vinyl?
@bdp24 Not quite. It is the laziest way of grouping the records! Seriously, Because they are in record store style layout, I just pick what I want. I couldn't do bookcase. It would drive me nuts. Sometimes albums go AWOL. I have the entire basemen... 
How do you store and catalog your vinyl?
@uberwaltz @bdp24 Yes, it takes up a lot of space - along one wall of the basement. I couldn’t have it any other way. It can be like browsing a store and not knowing what you might find. The genres are simple: jazz, blues, folk, rock, musicals, cl... 
How do you store and catalog your vinyl?
Very basically by genre. What I love though, is that I have them stored in a record store style so I can easily flip through them. I could not do bookcase style storage. 
Harbeth 30.1 ? The Ultimate Speaker under $5K ?
If you'd took the guy (me) with the Quad 57s advice (DI, 8-2-18), you'd have saved all that bother! Hope they work out. 
new york city audio show 2018
@birdyboy Justin, Looking forward to the show. Thanks for taking the effort to hold it. 
Need some help soldering Binding posts.
The rule in my day as a tech were to make the connection physically sound, and then solder. Do not use solder as a glue. 
Turntable isolation
That's why I am in the basement. Concrete floors 6 inches thick. By choice. My large reception rooms with marble fireplaces lie unused. 
Whats in your second system?
2nd system: Garrard 401 (rebuilt) in walnut/maple birch-ply plinth, 12" Jelco 750L (brass counterweight), Ortofon MC3 HOMC.Croft 25 phono preamp with Telefunkens. EICO HF35 monos.Spendor SP2/2 speakers.REL Strata lll sub.Sony DVD and 65" 4k TV. 
New user intro: some questions...
You only need one Vidar. Use funds to replace old SLD2. 
Malfunctioning Yamaha TT-300U
There is one in working order for $62 on eBay. Frankly, might be time to look at a new table.