tphalieros
Responses from tphalieros
| VPI redesigning experiment From what I see it will take about 10-14 days to receive my VPI platter-bearing combo and then start working on the maple bases.Patience guys!Ted | |
| VPI redesigning experiment Slipknot, sounds like you've got something going there. I have used the Isoblocks under my acrylic plinth and find them excellent. they have the added benefit of holding slippery surfaces such as acrylic or polished maple, in place securely, somet... | |
| VPI redesigning experiment Talentkeeper, I would avoid materials such as corian for a plinth. I would also go for the HR-X assembly. I believe Pierre Sprey(Mapleshade), about lead dulling the sound, don't forget that the Teres base is made from cocobolo which is used to mak... | |
| VPI redesigning experiment Thank you for the very informed responses, I am answering in the order I received them.Twl, I have described the Teres to Pierre, He has experimented with lead in wood bases and acrylic and his take is that it "deadens the sound" maybe the Teres d... | |
| TT suggestions -- please Has anybody changed the regular TT bearing to an inverted one that sits under the platter, the change being donne on the same turntable, and if so what was the result on the sound? | |
| Record-playing Rituals? After 10 years of spending hours cleaning and scrubbing dirty garrage sales records, you will have to pay me to clean another. I stopped buying used records also, unless if they are spotless. I got too old to continue to be anal-retentive! | |
| Electricity fluctuations Due to work I did not get to read answers to my "electricity fluctuations" untill saturday eve. I thank you very much for the time you took to send me those detailed instructions, Aball, Lwatson, GS5556, and bob bundus. Now I need sometime to inve... | |
| Does copper migrate through silver? Pierre Spray, Mapleshade guru, says that using refrigirators as cable burners condition the molecules with unmusical properties and you need a zillion hours of music playing to recondition them ! (IF, they are able to be reconditioned again!) Theo | |
| Stay away from UPS. Never use UPS. I have had alot of tragic stories with UPS but what broke the camels back was that they manage to drop 2 independent packages containing monoblocks ( one in each package ) and bend the edge of the front plate next to the handle in both ! units, Ho... |