minkwelder
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| What does one need to know about playing old 78 rpm records? Virtually all pre-WWII 78's (and some after) were made with shellac resins, so don't use any alcohol for cleaning. Be sure to follow the manufacturers recommended tracking force on your made-for-78 cartridge to avoid stylus and record wear and pr... | |
| Getting into the music @mahgister Similarly, with my Joseph Audio Pulsars, the 5" woofers don't produce the lowest bass but, depending on the source material, I don't usually miss it. The Pulsars replace my Aerial Acoustics 10-T's which actually tended toward too much... | |
| Getting into the music Whenever I visit my brother and we retreat to his basement lair to enjoy a few fine intoxicants, I'm always struck by how much I enjoy the music. It doesn't seem to matter that it's played through a cheap Sherwood AV receiver and a $200 pair of ha... | |
| Better Records vs MoFi @chrisoshea I’m speaking from personal experience and you’re speaking from....? | |
| Better Records vs MoFi @chrisoshea If Better Records was merely looking for the quietest pressings they could find and cleaning them, I could partially agree with you. Over the last several years, I purchased four copies of Jethro Tull's Stand Up and finally found one... | |
| Better Records vs MoFi @bdp24 I bought my MFSL copy of MFBP back in the mid-80's so it was definitely the 1-039 version. Not being very knowledgeable about MFSL, I thought all of their stuff was half-speed mastered. The copy I got from Better Records is an EMI/Capito... | |
| Better Records vs MoFi I bought a copy of The Band's Music from Big Pink from Better Records and it blew away my MFSL version. I have purchased several other titles from them that had no half-speed master version that were likewise much better than I could find otherwis... | |
| AMC Record Player Crazy Loud Humming Those 50C5 tubes were used in old electronic designs that used series heaters directly run from the AC mains and can be extremely dangerous. My understanding is that some of the transformerless designs could have a live chassis! You're asking for ... | |
| 45 Singles You Just Had to Buy Jumpin' Jack Flash | |
| The one, the only Garth Hudson. @bdp24: At the risk of being nailed for "off-topic" posting or somebody telling us to 'get a room', I gotta say that I listened to some of Gary's stuff and I wish I could get that tone. Reading his biography on last.fm, I can relate to his experie... | |
| The one, the only Garth Hudson. @bdp24: "Bewildered" is a good way to put it. A buddy and I got together in '67 (our sophomore year) and started practicing together, working out Byrds and Stones tunes. When Cream hit, my buddy, Bob, was knocked out by Clapton and started learni... | |
| What record cleaner is the most bang for the buck?? I use the KAB EV-1. It's like the top section of a Nitty Gritty record cleaner that you hook up to your own vacuum cleaner. I like that it sucks the waste water off the bottom of the record rather than fighting gravity. It only costs $149. It's so... | |
| The one, the only Garth Hudson. When Music From Big Pink came out, I bought it unheard due to their association with Dylan. At first, I was taken aback by how different it was from what I was used to listening to. Before long, it had grown on me and I absolutely loved it When t... | |
| New Outlets Lead to Better Sounding and Tasting Coffee The next logical step for the coffee aficionado is to ROAST your own. Once you do, you'll discover that most coffee is stale by the time you buy it. I recommend the Behmor roaster. | |
| Does anyone know how to adjust the speed of a Teac TN300 beyond the built in adjustments My limited electronics knowledge tells me that one lead of the capacitor must be unsoldered for testing. |