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| Trade in value to a dealer It all depends on the value you put on your time and effort. | |
| The value of of the sealed record. In today's counterfeit environment, I would imagine that it would not be too difficult to re-seal an album to look like the original. | |
| Short Lifetime for 6NS7 Tubes Which preamp are you using? Perhaps it runs the tubes bard like the old Audible Illusion preamps | |
| Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS) Platforms You are already $7G's into the HRS philosophy, therefore, it's too late to turn back. Drop the extra $$$$ and sleep better at night, otherwise you will toss and turn at night wondering....."what if" | |
| VPI cartirdge alignment? If the cartridge pins are seated all the way to the back the cartridge clips, then re-terminating or cutting back the cartridge clips won't help as the cartridge pins are what are causing the problem. Perhaps SoundSmith can modify your cartridge... | |
| VPI cartirdge alignment? I assume that you are referring to the tonearm cartridge clip tabs that are causing the interference. You can always trim back the tabs a touch | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Put four musicians in a room and ask them to play on four different consecutive days. They will play a different tempo on each day. Fill them with cappuccino’s before the fourth day playing and see what happens. Humans are not robots. Yes, musicia... | |
| Ethical Help from the AudiogoN Community Your description of the speaker is accurate and is not misleading, therefore, you are in the clear. Heck, a smart buyer may do some homework and find out that a replacement tweet is available to $69 and make you an offer way below market price. | |
| What to do with old LP inner sleeve? If you like an old musky smell along with incubated mold spores, go ahead and keep those old inner sleeves. | |
| Adventures in Table Shopping A good inexpensive cartridge can out perform an expensive one if it is well matched and set up properly. Take the lowly Denon Dl 103. Slight mods, well matched and set up well and it will out perform many much more expensive cartridges. Yea,... | |
| The best coupling caps in power amp ?? Mundorf, Infinicap ?? Do your homework, as you’ll find that one or two expensive "boutique" caps mentioned are very likely just re-branded Solens (which are far cheaper) compare diameter/length/lead length for the same uF and voltage and you will see why. Cheers Ge... | |
| Anyone know what these are Perhaps MIT / Transparent Cable prototypes :-) | |
| The "most foolish" loudspeaker tweak/upgrade ... is @ptss wrote "testpilot it's my understanding wire shouldn't be heard... "So your objection is merely with the price and is without regard to performance. | |
| A speaker that looks like a driver or a driver that looks like a speaker? Looks like something that you would pick up at a tacky souvenir shop. Not for me. | |
| 845 You don't need the side nipple but you still need to respect the tube orientation to ensure that you have the right pin aligned with the right conductor. |