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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @bimasta RAUL disagrees with you, Chak —"That tiny hole at the inner position in the SS300 is not to fix it to the spindle. SAEC makes a research about and they found out that the LP/records tend to slide through a metal mat surface so its advice... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? A tiny hole in the mat near the spindle hole made to fix the lightweight SAEC MAT to the turntable spindle/platter, not to fix the MAT to the RECORD @bimasta But you have no idea how it works because you never seen SAEC manual and those parts are ... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. I started in the late 80’s as a high end audio salesman for 2 different stores representing the names of VANDERSTEEN, KRELL, CONRAD JOHNSON, APPOGEE, AUDIO RESEARCH, MCINTOSH, B&W, SUMO, JEFF ROWLAND, MARK LEVINSON, VPI, REGA, LINN, ATMOSPHERE... | |
| Audio Furniture has its own sound! There are many solutions invented by professionals to isolate turntables used near huge 20 000+ WATT Sound Systems and a crowd of 5 000 people jumping and dancing around. I have no idea why someone in a small living room need anything like that wi... | |
| AT 33SA or OC9 for 1200 mk5 On Technics tonearm you’d better use MM cartridges with mid or high compliance with stock headshell. You can use MC, but try to avoid low compliance on this arm. It was made for MM cartridges and AT MM are great, don’t forget that you will have to... | |
| 45 tubes for Yamamoto A-08s I decided to try Australian made Radiotron 80 (NOS/NIB) first. Damn, it's from the 40's, definitely the oldest piece of gear in my system. The next step is 717A preamp tubes, something like this ? Westen Electic is what i have now in the amp selec... | |
| Audio Furniture has its own sound! Designed and made my metal racks for Luxman PD-444 (i have two), genuine turntable footers are suspended, metal rack filled with sand, stands on 4 adjustable spikes. Luxman is superheavy turntable with metal cabinet. No issues!Over 20 years ago i ... | |
| Thinking to replace my phono While the most people on audiogon will recommend only US MADE gear for some reason, i must admit, there are amazing gear made in Japan, Europe and Australia. | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. Direct drives are junk. You never connect a motor to the deck and platter. Vibration. Direct drive is for low end record players. Virtually every 100k dollar table is BELT. Technics is not EVEN close to same league as VPI or REGA. Unless YOU ARE A... | |
| Thinking to replace my phono If your arm is Brinkmann 10.5 then effective mass is 12g ? Miyajima Kansui compliance is 9cu @ 10Hz and this is a very low compliance for 12g tonearm which is designed for mid compliance cartridges. At least you have to use special heavy mounting ... | |
| Cartridge Tonearm compatibility Gary, you can read this thread first, maybe you don’t have to worry about.Jelco is a mid mass arm and Dyna is a mid compliance (17cu @ 10Hz) cartridge. It should be fine!In my opinion online calculation is always wrong, you can do that with Hi-Fi ... | |
| Sorbothane record weight? A few record weight i've been using long time ago are on this image. The one on my SP-10mkII is a German Made for 30 Euro, the grey one on the left side designed not only for LP, but also for 45s (also nice and cheap). They are lightweight under 3... | |
| List of plinth builders for Technics SP10 MK3 Here you can see my ex Obsidian and custom Teak Wood plinth. Pneumatic insulators - highly recommended under the plinth (they are adjustable and supports up to 60kg) | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. CHAKSTER YOU DONT KNOW AUDIO GEAR TOO WELL AND SHOULDNT BE ON AUDIOGON. Why do you use capslock ? Even Raul advised you a brand new Technics SL1200G, our Uberwaltz did the same and advised you Direct Drive turntables, you just wasting your time w... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? @hdm thanks for the link, the statement was made in 2003, long time ago, but anyway ... Anyone can comment what is a PA profile ? Parabolic ? I remember PH stylus on my Galnz 61, but not a PA. And yes i do not clean records everyday, because i th... |