whart
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| Beware the audio guru I took the Buddhist thing to mean humility and open-mindedness, not anti-science. To me, the true sign of an expert is someone who is willing to take account of multiple, conflicting views, reconcile them to the extent that is possible and be able... | |
| Beware the audio guru @david_ten - very Zen. If you think you are enlightened, you are wrong. Trust no one, not even yourself. :) | |
| Beware the audio guru @cleeds- probably a fair warning to the uninitiated, but my sense is that most people that stay on this site (as opposed to the person who posts as a newbie saying "I just inherited X, how does this work or is it any good?" and then disappears) ar... | |
| Theory behind well tempered tonearm? @dangcaonguyen - why not contact Well Tempered? Or a dealer within your locale that handles the table and provide further info? | |
| Theory behind well tempered tonearm? @dangcaonguyen - don’t remember what tools came with the table, at that time, I was having help on turntable set up, particularly once I moved up in the cartridge world-- I had set up plenty of turntables in the early ’70s, but the Well-Tempered r... | |
| Theory behind well tempered tonearm? I owned an original Well-Tempered Turntable many years ago and don’t really remember any shift of the arm fore and aft. The fluid in which the paddle (now, I guess a golfball?) was suspended was fairly viscous (thick) and acted as a damper as well... | |
| Yanni or Laurel? That's it. I'm selling all this ****. Larry i- +whatever! | |
| High End Reproduction is back Syn: I think you have long been an advocate for a top table and arm obviating the need for the most expensive cartridges; that this enables the use of a lesser priced cartridge without a loss in performance. So, is this cartridge made by Acoustica... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls @onhwy61 - have a British friend who loves endurance rallies. Did the Cannonball Baker (not the car one, the bike one) on a pre-war Harley. He was in his mid-'70s at the time. Stiff upper lip and all the rest... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls It’s certainly a question worth revisiting; the assumption that tone controls in the signal path were not ’purist" has held since the early ’70s (as I remember it). As another poster noted, I was stunned at how much a box shop HT pre-pro with DSP ... | |
| Have You Ever Owned QUADS? @roberjerman- good for you. I wanted to own a Futterman back in the day, but viewed it (perhaps wrongly) as the amp equivalent of a London/Decca cartridge- high risk/high reward.@geoffkait - I think you are swiping too broadly, Geoff. I agree abou... | |
| Have You Ever Owned QUADS? Bought my first pair in 1973 and had them restored last year after they were sitting for years in crates. In the meantime, I had used a pair of Crosby-modded '63s, from roughly 1990 to 2005 or so. My old 57s with a fresh restoration sound fabulous... | |
| Needing some help figuring out my Panasonic sl-1000 Turntable I bought my SP-10 new, in the U.S. in 1973 and it was the earlier model, not a Mk II, which is the more desirable turntable for several reasons having to do with the motor, controller and platter. Yours is an oddity, perhaps a collector’s piece, b... | |
| The Steep Canyon Rangers @bdp24 if you lived here you’d be home by now: [url]https://thevinylpress.com/steep-canyon-rangers-open/[/url]. | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning @bydlo- are you in the States? Try the AIVS No. 15 for the deep cleaning if you can. You must rinse afterwards though. |