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| WARNING - USE UPS FOR SHIPPING RATHER THAN FEDEX But... in the meantime... give us the link to where / how to get "nylon strapping / tensioning system."Well, prices have gone up since I equipped Galiber’s infrastructure with these tools, but if a few buddies buy and sell a few times/year, you mi... | |
| WARNING - USE UPS FOR SHIPPING RATHER THAN FEDEX What a troll ... all we have here are anecdotal experiences.Having said that, here's a tip (whether you're a FedEx or UPS fanboy) ...Use nylon strapping on your cartons. It's a $150.00 investment in the tensioning and crimping tools but well wort... | |
| how much better is the kuzma 4 point then my TTW Jelco Some wonderful tonearms referenced in this thread. One key piece of advice I give my customers is that the arm you interact with and can most easily set up is the best arm. If you think about it, this is as it should be, because you’ll be more inc... | |
| how much better is the kuzma 4 point then my TTW Jelco Let's put it this way ... the 4Point and the Durand Talea were the two arms I used when when developing my new drive system.The 4Point has a different presentation than the Talea, and it runs the possibility of revealing flaws elsewhere in your sy... | |
| Record Cleaning - Ultra Sonic or My old ways I've always found that the cleaning method you actually USE is the best method. This is different things to different people. For me, any machine with an obnoxiously loud vacuum motor will (and has gone) unused. Others may not mind this.I also ... | |
| Which arms are really SOTA, and can be properly setup? You’ve clearly owned some top notch tonearms (and I’m not naming names, but you gave a few away in your comments). I try to emphasize exactly what you have done in the setup section of my support pages.One key point I make with my customers (to th... | |
| Is a KT-77 a plug in for a KT-88? The first check of course is the pinout, and they match.In terms of operating points, the KT-77 is pretty robust (design max plate voltage = 800VDC, design max screen voltage = 600VDC). It's doubtful that your KT-88 amp was designed such that it... | |
| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner And there's your answer (simple distilled).Cheers,Thom @ Galibier | |
| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner I hate to rain impure water on this parade, but I have to ask the following question:If you go for lab or reagent grade water in the context of an ultrasonic RCM, will it be lab/reagent grade after the first record is cleaned (even if you pre-clea... | |
| Phono pre "Break-In" process? Necessary? TLDR (too long, didn't read) ...I don't know if it was mentioned yet but one of the biggest "break-in offenders" is capacitors. Some Teflon caps are notorious for taking multiple hundreds of hours and they go through weird stages along the way. ... | |
| Spindle Holes The RIAA specification is .284 to .287 (technically, specified as .286 +.001/-.002).Whether manufacturers hold to this, as well as of course the need for cleaning out the hole, is a case by case situation.As ttweights said, a .286 drill bit will w... | |
| Graham Supreme 10 inch mounting Greetings,From e-mails with Bob (and 10" armboards produced for my Galibier customers), the 10" arm is:Eff length: 247.000mm, p-s 230.283mm.If you use 248mm effective length, then the correct BAERWAALD p-s is 231.356mm.I take it down to 3 decimal ... | |
| Has anyone else heard Modwright PH150 Phono Stage? First off ... <<DISCLAIMER >> I know and like Dan Wright.I took a PH-150 phono stage home after the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, to evaluate and comment on it for him.Executive summary:Beautifully designed with first-class manufacturing t... | |
| Best Used Phono preamp around $2500 The saga continues. As I mentioned above, I’ve been playing with interconnects. They are in general, very low capacitance (about 15pF per foot). The one lagging item has been the shielded IC between the step-up transformer and the input to the ... | |
| Best Used Phono preamp around $2500 Update - post Audiofest (06-Oct).A lot of updates to the system over the past 4 months: (1) the new NiWatt amplifiers, (2) the pre-production prototype of the Eiger rim drive turntable, and (3) all new cabling (some litz cables I'm developing).Al... |