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| Diamond Stylus Enters the 4th Dimension I bought a second hand Van Den Hul cartridge and experienced the same thing. The seller refunded my money and I sent it off to Van Den Hul for a rebuild. I’ve snapped the cantilever off my Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood not once, but twice. I’ll never ... | |
| Early Faint "Phantom" Turntable/Vinyl Signal??? One of the more famous of 'tape bleed through' cases is the 30 inch per second tape lead in on a certain Led Zeppelin album. | |
| Amazon Ships Records in Plastic Now I expect that this is the case, as well.... However, it being a full moon and under fairly stressful conditions, with that as a mood modifier and amplifier... I figured it was time to break out the 'off center spinning out of control over the top'... | |
| melos 333 preamp with remote Melos is (in)famous for not providing a single bit of schematic information for any of their products. Which, in the end, is a bit of a psychotic position. This is high end audio, and the circuits aren't exactly a continental level state secret wo... | |
| Amazon Ships Records in Plastic Now So, $50 blues record, sent by Dog teeth tight clench carrier express. Er, ok. Prolly no more records should be purchased by anyone at amazon. They're apparently not investing the effort to get to the understanding that the packaging of the record,... | |
| Minimum standards within the High end speaker industry It’s all candy, and I hate black licorice and anything cinnamon. And watermelon flavored too. Those must be banned. Death to all pickles! May they never sully another hamburger again! And..throw horseradish down the same hole. Let us gather togeth... | |
| Negotiate good price Ouch. You tried to sound like you were in control and they dissed you like a bum. They’re probably turning over kit with five figure net profits and don’t need or want your business. I hate that high-end snob bs though and wouldn't give them t... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' I’ve already revolutionized conductor design by using liquid metal conductors which are, literally, purely a quantum beast. Not seen before anywhere, in anything. so new, it is not yet explored and can produce effects and conditions not yet realiz... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' Chakster, The other important point to ponder is: not all things are known about how to upgrade a cartridge, nor is all lore and intelligence applied available only to the makers of the past. New things or new ideas do show up in the now, not just... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' One can also re-tip by buying pre-made assemblies, from Adamant Namiki. I get your point, though (chakster).The nude mounted styli on our cartridges is a namiki aluminum unit. (elliptical, shibata, or micro-ridge. Micro-ridge being akin to micro-l... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Ralph uses far more expensive capacitors in his gear. Inescapably so. Much higher voltages, much lower manufacturing levels of those capacitors, thus per unit costs are much higher for a plethora of reasons., so his costs are a totally different ... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? they are snap mount medium sized garden variety 63-80v capacitors. 15kuf-20kuf each. 8 of them. About $15US each at digikey. something like this:https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/united-chemi-con/ESMH800VRT223MB80T/4002961 They are not h... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Lets get this straight. Those large power caps are about $15 each, MAX. OK? MAX. that's $120 raw cost then double that price as included in the repair. So we're at $240, plus and hour at $100 to put them in. Let's be generous and call it $150.$39... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Lets be clear, $400 is way too low, and $1300 is off the charts - too high a number. Somewhere in the middle, maybe. If it was me, for $1300 us, if I was the tech, it would come back as a wholly different sounding amplifier, and be notably superio... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? Audiogon is a very strange place. I’m simply asking if this price is in the right range and getting some really strange responses that don’t answer that question.@jafant thank you very much for your feedback. That’s what I was trying to find out ... |