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Nude Turntable Project
Cool. Those armpods turned out nice. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Triggered by a thread earlier on AA...Ella and Oscar 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Brings new meaning to "that cart really got my feet tapping!" 
Schroder sq and the new talea
Syntax,Your mammoth bone has been planted in Mother Earth, absorbing Her energies, for thousands of years, now permeated with all the positive energy of Mother Earth, the Earth Spirits, and her Commune with Father Sun. That's gotta be better than ... 
is a step up/down electric transformer bad ?
Thanks Ralph, you da dude. 
is a step up/down electric transformer bad ?
Ralph,When you say "if you go above that, the transformer will ad distortion to the AC line and the results are both audible and measurable! and not good"...Do you mean if your device draws 120W max vs your 200W transformer? Or if your device draw... 
Nude Turntable Project
Henry,Thanks. Kind of wondered how the side would be finished. I figured that was a possibility for the top plates but I thought I saw a singular so was wondering. I understand now and love the idea.I like the Micro and think it 'punches above its... 
Schroder sq and the new talea
Thom,I think as long as people enjoyed themselves and are adult enough to deal with and understand what went on, I think you did no wrong by letting it go on, even if it may not have turned out to be the comparison some hoped for. From Mosin's com... 
Nude Turntable Project
Halcro,Cool. How would those pods be finished? An aluminum top plate would take care of the topside, but how about the sides? Also, how do you deal with arms which have a much smaller diameter mount? 
Best Fully Automatic TT
FWIW, because someone mentioned it above... The Exclusive P3 (made by Pioneer) is NOT fully automatic.... You just get runout groove noise played at a very high degree of fidelity and speed accuracy... :^)The best vintage fully automatic tables I ... 
Feedback on following Set up
Any speakers? 
Japanese Vinyl Pressing
Justlisten,If you have the obi (or sometimes on the back side bottom right of the cover), you'll note that they ranged from roughly 1500 yen +/- a bit in the late 60s to 1800-2500 yen in the 80s. All media (books, magazines, records) had artificia... 
Japanese Vinyl Pressing
Yes. Same impression, especially for 70s reprints of jazz albums I have. The pressings by King, Toshiba, and Victor beat the US versions I have of a similar age. Of course that's just me...That said, some of it may be that Japanese people took bet... 
Graham Phantom vs. Phantom II
Do Phantom II armwands work on Phantom I arms? 
What would be the best "attainable" Denon turntabl
Lew,I don't have any carts which want more than 8g of VTF. Even then, I don't have many records which could deal with that cart (meant for old monos). But that cart is a wonderful one when I can use it.I came up with the same "75%" number as you d...