stuartbranson
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| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Rest in peace. Thanks Pat. | |
| Repairing MDF shelf finish Automtive glazing putty. It's often used to fill the cut edges of MDF which are too porous to paint. | |
| 12au7 tube questions Though maybe not what I would call dark, the best 12au7 I have come across is the Philips Miniwatt 7316 variety. Beautifully detailed without tipping towards the slightly harder edgier Telefunkens or oppositely to the mushy Mullard. Most others I ... | |
| Short floorstanders? >For music (the main concern)<Got up on the wrong side of the bed? I just meant that music is the main use and secondly as HT. The screen is a pull-down type for a projector, and I'm sure he'd have a dedicated room if that was possible.Also,... | |
| what CD player between 1-2K I had the Rega and switched to the Cary 308. Both fine players but with the increased resolution in the Cary came increased glare. I now have a Copland CDA-289 (not to be confused with the 266 or 288). It's in your price range and if you can find ... | |
| That dreaded hum You can still buy the Mondial at "Music Direct" for $99 but there are lots of examples of these isolators. This is the cheapest I've seen:http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?&DID=7&Partnumber=180-075 | |
| I have my table now I need a phono, please help Nice rig. I was lucky enough to audition the Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 Signature, the Dynavector P-75 and the Audiomat Phono 1 and the Coph Nia all at the same time. (the first two were my friend's). My auditioning was mostly with a Rega P9 TT and Dyn... | |
| Shipping to Canada? Don't use UPS I've had the same results. UPS once charged me $94 for a set of jumpers I paid $150 for. Ridiculous. | |
| How long does a stylus last? Though I don't have a cleaning machine, I usually use the Premier LP cleaner and dry brush method,Last stylus cleaner and Zerostat before each play. I found the Zerodust doesn't work all that well. More offensive records get hand cleaned with Reco... | |
| How long does a stylus last? I've been looking at Koetsu. They don't become affordable (generally) until about 300-500 hrs. I have a Shelter 501 mkII and a Dynavector XX-2. ("My System" is not updated) | |
| Power Cord Priority Recently I read that Nordost's opinion is to put the best power cord at the beginning, ie., from the wall to the power conditioner. I always used to start from the source first. Though often used to defend the idea of source as most important, it'... | |
| I want to upgrade my TT for about $2K. I mean in comparison to the Scoutmaster. | |
| I want to upgrade my TT for about $2K. What about the VPI Aries? | |
| Checking the AC polarity of your amplifier Nsgarch - For your ** comment, could you not just switch the house wires into the outlet being used? | |
| Re-tubing Audiomat Arpege. Suggestions? Thanks Steve. I did buy used and the 12ax7's that came with the amp are relatively new Electroharmonix's. I posted this because of my explorations into 12au7's with my other amp and finally found some Philips minwatt 7316's that were much better t... |