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| Micro Seiki Air Bearing service Thanks Tim.I have yet to do this kind of service. I have to do something similar in any case. Separately, do you know anyone who does Micro Seiki motor repairs? | |
| Newbie question - equipment with good resale value Buconero117,I, on the other hand, find that the BlueBook is way off in the other direction sometimes, especially for pieces which are older than 10yrs old. The formula you quote seems to be the one used by the Agon BlueBook when they have nothing ... | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? Mickeyf, yes I have heard most of what 2pac has done. Compared to what most people think of rappers, he was a surprisingly well-read guy. Some of his stuff is too aggressive for my taste, and the violence and aggression in his personal life was be... | |
| Newbie question - equipment with good resale value A couple of other tube amp names might be AirTight and VTL. As for TTs, the list of good TTs goes on and on. Basis, VPI, and Teres mentioned above are American-made and currently supported. Some of the Japanese-made direct drive turntables of yest... | |
| Newbie question - equipment with good resale value Almarg has good advice and Tvad and Tzh21y list some names. The only sure-fire way to "know" the history of prices and get a feeling for where items trade is to get a subscription to the Audiogon BlueBook, to understand that it only works for rela... | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? BEP have their place. Not all music has to be enlightening or cathartic - and BEP is certainly entertaining at times. I have listened to a bunch of their older stuff (pre-Fergie and with) and some of it is outright great. Watching their evolution ... | |
| Great phono pre The manufacturer's description page only shows the one a couple of versions ago, but it is here. | |
| Picture Thread Syntax, on your previous photo (FR7-FS), it looks like you are dragging part of a cat with your cart... Is that normal? | |
| Full Range Speaker That Can Play Near Boundaries What Audiokinesis said about large speakers. I like my Altec Model 19s (I know, broken record) in a small room. Another American in Japan with Model 19s seems to think the same thing - they go well against the back wall and almost out to the edges... | |
| Clint Eastwood's HiFi Ex_midwest,I am not sure anyone got your joke...except maybe the guy who said "Maggies"... :^) | |
| Great phono pre Congrats!That was fast. I'd never heard of it before. Not much info on it in English, and I no longer speak much German so it will take a while to come up to speed on this. | |
| Great phono pre Frankpiet,If you are willing to buy "old Japanese technology" which was truly top of its class (which you obviously do with your choice of TTs), you might try the Pioneer HZ-1 headamp as the first gain stage on your phono amplification. It is trul... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges The MCX5 was in part designed by Ozawa-san who started Shelter in the mid 1980s after spending a few years at Fidelity Research. It came out (with the MCX3) many years after the FR-7 series and was designed for use with the XG-5 and XG-7 transform... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Rich,The stock mat for the Mk3 is ~540g. The SAEC SS300 is ~850g. I don't have a Mk2 mat handy. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III John P,Thanks for a well-written description of the comparison. Can you tell what you (or others) think is responsible for the difference between the SP-10MkIII's substantially better sound when compared with the modified SP-10MkII?Was the Mk3 mod... |