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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Tom Waits   "Alice"   ANTI 86632-1 Pixies  "Come on Pilgrim"     MAD 709 Circus Maximus S/T  Vanguard VSD-79260 ((Jerry Jeff Walker early band) Bob Dylan   "Desire"   Columbia  PC 33893 Elvis Costello and the Attractions  "Blood And Chocolate"... 
Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say?
people love being told, by an expert, that they are doing it wrong. gopher it  
PayPal Friends & Family listings. Why is this becoming so common?
I've been burned, once paying with F&F. So now I offer to pay the fee, I add 3.5% to the total, and go with Goods and Services if the seller agrees. Selling used items seldom makes a profit, so no income... What I don't understand is how sales... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Frank Zappa     "Apostrophe  (*)" Tom Waits     "Mule Variations" Frank Zappa    "Waka Jawacka" The World Is Lousy With Ideas    "Vol.8" Morphine    "Good"  (a Music On Vinyl pressing--- nice) Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band     "Live ... 
Interconnect Break In?
Why not "break in" while listening?  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Traffic "Traffic" Wow No Cow 7" compilation Treat Her Right  "Tied To The Tracks" Joan Of Arc  "1984" Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays  "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls"  Joni Mitchell  "Miles Of Aisles" Xui Xui  "Fag Patrol"           ... 
Turntable suggestions for a newbie
Yeah, go with the Vpi... If nothing else, it will hold its value a little better. I have a Michell, actually the '23 Transcriptors with the Onyx arm. The lift off dust cover (which I prefer... Lower the attached lid when playing; a raised cover is... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Belle and Sebastian   "Boy With The Arab Strap" Gloria Lynne   "Go! Go! Go!"  (mono) Classie Ballou   "All Night Man" Ray Mirijanian   "The Ray Mirijian Oud And Clarinet Vol I" (mono) Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano,  Bill Orcutt   "The Flower School"... 
new member, some questions, need help please
I think if you can go out and listen, you will find that the Watt Puppies have been eclipsed in their price range. I audition but can't afford... I'm a window shopper when it comes to a certain price point. I settled on the used Maggie 1.7i, and a... 
Integrated Tube Amp approx. $2,500
I second the Willsenton R8. You can buy, sometimes, direct on line, I bought mine as an open box for under 1k delivered. Many option with tube rolling (of course), and operation mode, and simple bias adjust. This was my first "quality" tube amp, T... 
15 amp circuit VS. 20 amp Circuit
The outlets are not wired in "series" they are wired in "parallel"; series wiring is the old Christmas light string that goes dark when any bulb fails.. Let us assume you have 120 Volt available, and that the breaker and outlets are in good condit... 
Whats playing on your system today?
Reorganization and cleaning session. It's pretty much been Galactic and Lettuce...  
AA for us
Like the cowboy that stopped smoking by switching to dip......I have been focusing on the record collection.   I don't recommend going off trail in this manner. Do you have any idea how many variants of DSOTM are out there?  
Speaker wire impedance? Speaker impedance?
While on the subject of speaker cables.... Do not neatly coil excess speaker (or interconnects) wire, this is, in effect, making a coil, AKA "choke", and will definitely affect impedance. If you have excess wire it is better to have that extra wir... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
splurged on a Nina Simone Picture Disc for framing, so a couple of my mono and stereo copies of "Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club" Doris Troy   "Just One Look"  Real Gone Music  RGM-1397 repress Jonathon Richman ATML  "Back In You...