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| Me and Mr. Johnson on Vinyl Anyone Heard It? Just got my copy from my local record store. They still stock new vinyl, and I also paid the same for the record as I did the cd, in my case 14.95. Vinyl is still available to venders, and of corse venders usually don't carry the same selection a... | |
| best turntable for 500$ or less This is actually a harder recommendation than it seems, not because analog has to nessesarily be difficult, but in your wisdom of giving us as much info as you have, it leads me to think your criteria are more stringent than you elude to. Clue- yo... | |
| Review: Luxman PD-284 Turntable Thank you for pointing these things out! I agree with you, and we as record-spinning audiophiles, who often would not evan think of having something as "outdated" as a direct-drive, mass market turntable to quickly push the thought of them aside. ... | |
| Happiness is A Warm Set of EL34's Found the same results as above comparing tesla (JJ) e34l's to svetlana's el34's, in particular a modified stereo 70. In fact, evan prefered the svets for their open mids at the expence of the 'crisp' jj's, which would have served to help the amp.... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long There are some really interesting thoughts here in the last few post, as far as thoughts or ideas that eventually turn into knowledge. It is for one useful when we attempt to measure and discover that the measurements are not exactly what we expec... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long I think it is worth pointing out that what a properly designed tonearm IS, is the result of continuing to try to improve the design, that is, further the knowledge and design of the technology. That is why it is so much fun that twl shares his imp... | |
| Rookie Tube Question s Evelick Said it to try to determine if the tube is bad; An easy way is to move tubes around to see if the 'behavior' you are observing follows the tube or the socket, and also keep careful track of which tube is which, I evan write it down on pape... | |
| My baby left me... left me sad and bluuuuueee.... You and me both. "I FEEL you pain" (don't remember where that quote comes from but it cracks me up), and it seems from the responces everyone has at one time or another, and listened to the blues from someone who has from one time or another. And ... | |
| blue collar workers I is a carpenter. Evan when I am involved in the 'white coller' aspects of my humble yet gratifying career, I am never far from labor and working with my hands. Besides love of music, I also like to tinker, and create. I also love to exercise my b... | |
| To preamp or not to preamp? The old passive/active question again. I love this. Of course, running a component direct is not really 'passive', but there are the same principles. I have discovered there is more to it than output levels and impedences. I got a quicksilver pre... | |
| Turntable Leveling, Again While it is important that the turntable be level, how level it has to be depends on what kind of table and arm and what some poeple consider perfectly level. First off, the most important reason a turntable should be level has to do with the bala... | |
| bare wire vs. spade lugs vs. banana plugs Connecters do make a big difference. When I first discovered this I was using banana's on the end of spades, I was comparing amps and speaker cables and I wanted to switch easily, and once I got rid of the banana's, I realized I had really wasted ... | |
| time to discuss kt-88's I talked to Mike Sanders today. I wanted to get his recommendations for kt-88's as well as discuss the viability of kt-90's in the silver 90's. (Quicksilver makes a currant model that is very close to the silver 90's, the mono 100's, and he offers... | |
| time to discuss kt-88's Yea, I'm burning the hell out of these kt90's. I have logged about 70 hrs since fri. I have left them on non-stop except for about 3 hrs today to let them cool, and recheck the bias as I fired them back up, so I could kinda keep my eye on things. ... | |
| time to discuss kt-88's Yes, 400 hrs for a tube to burn in IS rediculas, but I have experienced rediculasly long burn in periods in other areas. I did call upscale to ask about this, and they more or less confirmed this, saying about 300 hrs, and that they have an "unus... |