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| VPI HW17 vs Loricraft PRC4 Deluxe The question I would ask myself is:Am I happy with how clean my set-up is getting my records now? If satisfied, save your money. Plenty of people with a Lori craft and similar type machines are now moving to Ultra Sonics. Learning to be satisf... | |
| Powerful, smallish floorstanders with high WAF? Salk Sound has a terrific small speakers. For instance: http://www.salksound.com/wow1%20-%20home.htm orhttp://www.salksound.com/veracity%20ht1%20-%20home.htm I was one of those SMAC members looking for a subwoofer. Also, SoundSmith has a great s... | |
| Cartridge / Needle Repair Well, it has been 7 plus years. What did you do and how did it turn out. This is one of the things I dislike about these forums in general. Someone comes here or goes there for advice. Advice is given, sometimes with some effort and back and f... | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair Looks like SS is the only game in town for retips or rebuilds. Except of course the manufacturer. Too bad Andy's work seems to be not up to snuff at this point! | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair mdp, I think the reason for the "one" price is that Lyra, Ortofon, Benz and many others are really not repairing your cartridge's single obvious problem. They are going to provide you with all new parts installed in your chassis (so to speak). I... | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair ^ Soundsmith states clearly that they will rebuild/refurbish any of their carts for 20% of the new cost. Seems that there is at least one high end manufacturer that doesn't follow along. Ortofon rebuilds theirs for less than 50% of the new cost ... | |
| Ortofon bronze PNP ALERT!!!!! On this I agree with Mr. Sayles! Grey market goods are cheaper for a reason. | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair I can, however, compare two identical carts. Not $3,000 ones but 1,000-1,200 dollar ones and to my poor ears it is impossible to hear a difference. Maybe the retipped one sounds slightly smoother when compared to the one that has over 2000 hours... | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair Hum, not my experience at all nor a close friend. On another note. I believe SoundSmith will retip or rebuild any of his cartridges for no more than 30% of the purchase price. You might sell your Kleos for a few hundred bucks and combine that ... | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair Retired = retipped | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair Rob and I disagree on this. While I agree that sending it to Lyra is optimum, people have cars repaired by other than the dealer all the time. I for instance rebuilt quite a few Masaratti engines for the machine shop I worked at. As a matter of... | |
| Lyra Kleos Repair Oh boy! at that price I might just take a chance on a rebuild by Andy or Peter. The cantilever may be able to be repaired BTW. I had a Blackbird with a decidedly off kilter cantilever and Peter at Soundsmith repaired it for the $16.00 in shippi... | |
| Premium distilled water for ultrasonic record cleaner I use, like Whart, reagent grade water for my record cleaning chores. While I don't have a fancy US cleaner, I do use it to mix up my surfactant solutions and as my two rinse. I got mine from Amazon for a similar price as above.http//www.amazon.... | |
| Where can I send my tubes for testing? WOW! Impressive resurrection of a 13 year old thread. Really dug into the archives. | |
| Any love for the Phillips GA212 or 312? I love how they look in a vintage system. Very cool IMHO. |