dgarretson
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| Are spare parts for the Sony SCD-1 becoming rare? Automotive moly grease or white lithium grease on the spindle jewel bearing, a drop of telfon oil into each end of the spindle assembly collar bearing, and a drop of teflon oil on each sled rail. Periodic spray of Deoxit into the sled motor-- whic... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Doug, I have not yet laid hands on mylar tape, but I find it difficult to believe this material has no elasticity or even approaches the inelasticity of braided fishline. If you hold a 50" length of mylar in your hands(typical length of a TT belt)... | |
| Looking for ACCURATE SPEED turntable/tonearm combo Ketchup,I think a visualization of strobe is much too crude an instrument to detect transient speed variations caused by modulations in stylus drag. However, it's not too difficult to hear an obvious difference if your belt drive TT allows switchi... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Doug,I've acquired a spare VPI 300RPM delrin motor pulley to machine flat in order to compare 1/2" tape to the custom thread/pulley drivetrain on my modded VPI TNT. I have a lathe, but I suppose I would need to devise a special cutting tool to mak... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Lew & Jonathan,Not sure how either car would do in the twisties of an LP, and a boring drive at speed limit of 33 1/3. But stylish to the extreme. | |
| Great Jack Bruce Albums,which ones? Cities of the Heart(2-CD Live) | |
| Levon Helm Dirt Farmer Vinyl My LP just picked up at indie record store is marked 247/500, so I assume this a very limited issue and mostly gone. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil K40Y9 that you have are .22uf/1000V; FT-3 is .1uf/600V; FT-1 is .01uf/200V. Other values and voltage ratings are available on Ebay. All are OK for electronics within their voltage range. The russian seller claims to have tested FT-1 .01uf/200V out... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil K40Y9 PIO sounds pretty good right out of the box and should improve within 10-20 hours. FT-3 teflon takes much longer to break-in and can be irritating until it does. I've had good luck paralleling K40 & FT-3; this seems to improve bass defin... | |
| Supratek Preamp. and 6SN7's impressions I recently went through similar 6SN7 rolling comparing early 1951 Sylvania WGT, RCA Gray Glass GT, Raytheon GT, Russian 1578/6N8S, and recent production EH. EH was only surpassed by Russian and Raytheon, and not by much. EH is very good indeed. | |
| Top resistors To address Kirkus's point that low-noise resistors make less difference in low-current locations, I just finished installing TX2575 at grid of amplifier tube in my phono preamp, and also at ingress of first gain stage to form standard 47K cartridg... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Did anyone try Duelund graphite resistors in their xover? These look interesting. | |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death LP what is it worth$ Roger Water's militant pacifism can become tiresome. But The Ballad of Bill Hubbard is quite moving. There are some interesting Q-sound effects on this album. Another option is The Columbia gold SBM CD, which sounds pretty good. | |
| Roger Waters Amused to Death LP what is it worth$ Kgturner, If you have access to a decent used record store you may stumble on this album and many other "collectibles" for a fraction of this price. | |
| Electro-Harmonix 6H30pi Gold vs Sovtek 6H30pi eb Jim McShane sells the Sovteks; they worked out nicely in my VK75SE as compared to DR. |