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| CD Player Recommendations… @dabel Yes, I wasn’t meaning to comment on Yamaha as such. I use a Yamaha tuner every day, the t-85, made around 1986. Its splendid. Probably needs the lid lifted for a look at the caps etc, and some other stuff that tuners need after all this ti... | |
| CD Player Recommendations… @reubent I have the original Saturn. After more than a decade, recently it has started skipping on the first track of a CD. I have read this is nothing serious, just needs perhaps some maintenance on the mechanism. Early models had some soldering ... | |
| CD Player Recommendations… While I have a Saturn and its just tremendous with (two?) WM8740 chips. It was pretty expensive new. I have no need for multiple formats, USB, digital output etc. These days I’d probably go for something more modest. The Rega Apollo has a (upgrade... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Worst - Dylan with Tom Petty around 1986. I even recorded it thinking this'll be good. I never listened to it again.Best - Queen 1985. Eric Clapton bad 1983, outstanding around 1990. | |
| Suggestions for New CD Player Given that you wish for a new CD player, you will have some difficulty finding one with the TDA 1541 chips in them. They have been out of production for a long time - 25 years?You mentioned the Rega Apollo. They are a tremendous player and comfo... | |
| Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ? Both my amps (one tube, one solid state) are point to point and handmade. The artisans who made them enjoy showing off the guts.Both adhere to Einstein's "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler" philosophy.There are propr... |