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| USB Digitil microscope advice @ketchup Seriously? I got exactly the same scope a few months back and this was the BEST I could get of all angles/lighting. Depth of field on the thing was about as deep as the point on your stylus. I’d BREATHE in the same cubic yard of spac... | |
| Lowest priced MC thats better than a Premium MM? I’ve been playing a Benz Micro Glider SL through first a Musical Surroundings Nova III phonostage, then a Quadratic MC-1 SUT (for reasons). For over a year now I’ve been enjoying its reproduction of sound. I bought mine through Kron out of HK som... | |
| Anyone listen to Music on a FM tuner anymore? I have a Technics ST-9038 tuner I recently upgraded with better OPAMP, decoupling caps, MUSE bipolar coupling caps and it sounds better than ever. Just acquired a matching MICOM timer unit for it I’m reconditioning (it works after a fashion). I g... | |
| What to do with a large collection @rvpiano ”I have to decide if I want to sell in bulk or individually. It seems a shame to have forked over so much money and wind up with nothing.” Well, if you consider the hours, days, weeks spent searching for, buying, then listening to ... | |
| Hum in speakers, and suggestions for stopping it “pureclarity 12-30-2023 at 07:23am Start unplugging components and plug back in one at a time. Coax for cable, hdmi cables, and Ethernet and like mentioned power cords next to speaker cables all can send signal to a power amp to amplify it. It ... | |
| Why do people like reel to reel players? I have a box of RtR tapes (Couple hundred on various high-quality Maxell, BASF and other reels) my brother made from vinyl in the early-mid 1970’s. From LP’s I couldn’t afford now in mint condition. But that’s what the tapes sound like now, 50 yea... | |
| I found the best way to recycle my old tubes! Man this sent me on an innerwebs rabbit hole adventure… When I was a kid (about 9 to HS) I lived in St. Pete, Florida. My brother knew this guy — Tom Shuren — who was a record collector. Tom had something like 200,000 records, a nearly comple... | |
| High quality recordings any genre @larsman - thanks for the suggestion. I spent the evening going through my Miles Davis collection, playing several LPs including the one I mentioned. I’m not enamored of that one LP as much as I was in the past. While the song “All Blues” is still... | |
| Happy Birthday Keith Richards. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? @curiousjim At the risk of being called philistine or unsophisticated, I bought that — only because I own a vinyl copy of everything PT and SW — and… wasn’t disappointed so much as “meh.” As much as I’ve enjoyed (and BOUGHT) everything SW h... | |
| High quality recordings any genre Does anyone have any direct experience with a UHQR limited edition of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue”? Always a fan of Miles’ work, I’ve probably played that LP more than any others of his except maybe “Workin’” or “Birth of the Cool,” but I’m seeing... | |
| buying (NOS) tubes online Two words: Brent Jessee. well, that was four, so, I have bought several pairs of 1940’s-era drivers (6SL7, 6SN7) and for the price, matching, insurance (optional) I couldn’t be happier. never called, just emailed. I figure he must be busy and I... | |
| For wi-fi streamers--a discovery to increase wi-fi strength Man, I’m getting old… anyone else here remember hanging aluminum foil flags from rabbit ear antennas to improve VHF signal reception? | |
| surface noise reduction Then there’s just plain old crappy vinyl, recycled from old kiddie pools and dominatrix wet suits… Saddest moments of my vinyl listening life were Mark Hollis’ solo release and the surface noise made it unlistenable. This had only sat around for ... | |
| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. Well, there’s Bob Carver’s take, here’s Nelson Pass’ thoughts on the topic (and somewhere here, or another forum, someone shared the actual schematic for the project should someone feel like building a do-it-yourself distortion unit to a SS amp): ... |