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| Tube Preamp with PS Audio P300 PP-300 may not provide enough start up current for BAT. You might want to check with Victor at BAT or Paul at PS Audio about that. My VK-50SE is powered by a PP-600 with great results. Some MW settings will cause the transformers to buzz. Mine is ... | |
| VPI JMW 10.5 damping oil question Jackcob,Yes. I am sure. I rechecked it about 10 times. Mike from Vpi told me the arm I got has the conic female bearing in the arm tube set too low, that effectively lifted the arm out of the oil cup. I was going to adjust the setscrew to lower th... | |
| No more music CDs without copy protection I just got back in to vinyl after 17 years. Now I got another good excuse not to buy any more CD. | |
| resistors in series/parallel questions... The correct value should be 88.68k but any standard value resistor within 5% will work. You won't hear any difference. There is no need to solder multiple resistors together. Cartridge generates very little current, 1/4w is more than enough. | |
| Need help - Set up Helikon using test LP Twl,Thank you for pointing this out. I wish I had read your post so I would not have made the costly mistake. Despite the tracking problem, I do love how it sounds. | |
| VPI JMW 10.5 damping oil question I spoke with Vpi. The underside of the half-sphere should definitly touch the damping oil. There is a setscrew on the top of the arm base right next to the arm wire. Turning this setscrew can lower the arm tube into the oil cup and control the amo... | |
| Need help - Set up Helikon using test LP Ok. I got in touch with Mike at Vpi. He told me to set the tracking force at 1.9 g for the Helikon, the manufacturer recommended maximum of 1.75g is not enough.My arm wire may have too much glue on it and I need to loosen it up using a hair dryer.... | |
| Need help - Set up Helikon using test LP Well, my copy of the test LP is off centered only slightly. I doubt it will cause the kind of buzzing I experienced. I am going to give VPI a call and will post a follow-up here if I find out anything.BTW, despite the setup problem, the Helikon so... | |
| Need help - Set up Helikon using test LP Thanks for all the suggestions.I am going to check the spindle hole of my copy of the test LP. I hope it is that simple. | |
| How much for two 20A lines? I live on Long Island. It cost me $150 to have one installed two years ago. It was part of a bigger job so it might have cost a bit more if it was stand-alone. The installation included about 50 feet of 10-gauge wire, one 20A outlet, and one circu... | |
| Burning a CD I use Easy CD Creator 5 with Memorex blanks. I have burn over 100 with only a handful of failures. I burn at 2x speed which is the slowest Easy CD Creator allows.I remember reading a review somewhere which compared a number of CD blanks for data d... | |
| It's Magnepan 20.1's or B&W Nautilus 801's B&W will give you more bass punch but in the long run, Maggies will be much more musically satisfying. If I had the room I would have bought the Maggies. | |
| How many things do you have plugged in? 9 for two channel7 more for HT | |
| VPI Aries owners Sknnyc,Thanks for the idea. Do you know any used scientific supplies store in NY area? | |
| VPI Aries owners Thanks for all your responses. Does anyone try Seismic Sink? |