puffball08
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| Whats playing on your system today? CDs only tonight.My Bloody Valentine “m b v” CDDeerhoof “Breakup Songs” CDFifty Foot Hose “Cauldron” CDCamper Van Beethoven “Telephone Free Landslide Victory” CDand if I’m still awake,Dickies “Great Dictations” CD | |
| Remove rack or console from between your speakers Mr. Miller,Nice system setup. Puts my wobbly (like the owner) wooden rack to great shame.I like the insulators supporting the cabling. Never thought of that considering I have several hundred.Victor, Locke or Lapp, by chance? Can’t see any mark... | |
| What other Hobbies or Interests Do You Have? Collecting porcelain insulators (yeah, the doo-dads on the electric pole)Locomotive airhorns (yeah, got a compressor and air bench for testing and repair, neighbors love me, my wife sometimes not so much, cat has gotten used to it)Care to guess wh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw, MyMat ended up resting on top of the stock felt mat. Seems to work best in that configuration. Definitely noted detail improvement particularly on the lows. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi @slawLately, been reading the stack of books on my desk rather than spinning discs.Of musical interest, John Seabrook’s book “The Song Machine-Inside The Hit Factory”. Took a break tonight and warmed up the tubes and gave the old platter a push... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My Bloody Valentine “Lost Tracks and Rare Cuts” | |
| Toole and why I like Tone Controls I went to read the article, clicked the link and was greeted with the dreaded "404 Not Found" error. Not Found The requested URL /tmpFiles/elib/20200201/17839.pdf was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at www.aes.org Port 80(... | |
| How much will you pay for an exotic cartridge.... Just a reminder if anyone is considering a trip to Japan, the “consumption” (sales) tax rose on 1 October 2019 to 10% nationwide. That applies to damned near all domestic purchases. | |
| Tube tester...anyone own their own? TV-7 D/U and sent to Daniel Nelson in Arizona for updates and calibration. If you can find the original military headphone set for noise testing, that is a big plus.Also have a Western Electric KS-15874-L2 otherwise known as a Hickok Cardmatic.Th... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung To save everyone from searching through the 20 issues of "Vacuum Tube Valley", I'll list some of the better known types used in audio applications.12AX7/ECC83 VTV #1, #14300B VTV #3, #8 (EL84 also in this issue)EL34 VTV #26L6 VTV #4, #136550/K... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung Gosh, seems I cannot directly copy and paste the jumpjet URL for the VTV PDFs.Sorry everyone.Try this:http://www.enjoythemusic.com/diy/0414/vacuum_tube_valley.htmor:https://web.archive.org/web/20130604042043/http://www.jumpjet.info/Pioneering-Wire... | |
| Old Legendary tubes vs New Kids on the block Amperex/Siemens/Tele vs Psvane/TAD/Shugaung This would be a good time for reviewing the long out of print magazine "Vacuum Tube Valley" (last issue published in 2003 due to the untimely death of the publisher Charlie Kittleson).http://www.jumpjet.info/Pioneering-Wireless/eMagazines/VTV/vtv.... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Auditioning newly received MyMat, thanks @slaw.Broadcast “The Future Crayon”LAFMS “35 S. Raymond 1976”(Los Angeles Free Music Society)Mort Garson “Plantasia-music for plants”Duster “Contemporary Movement” | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? 75 Dollar Bill "I Was Real" | |
| Is it a good idea to buy CD players over 10 years old even it is a reliable brand? @bimmerman2 mentioned the Philips TDA1541/1543 DAC. I discovered this rather spartan CD player currently available using a TDA1543. However, don’t know whose transport is used. Top loading takes the tray loading mechanics out of the equation. The ... |