dougdeacon
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| Salamander Video Racks I have a Triple 20 with 3 doors. Serial #1 in the whole USA BTW. Does that make it a collectable? ;)It holds my whole system, such as it is, with a 43" Samsung DLP TV and my TT on top. I agree with the above posts about care when assembling, awkwa... | |
| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long Johnnantais,I forgot to respond to your spirited suggestion! I don't know if all styli are glued to their cantilevers, but mine certainly is. I can clearly see cantilever, glue and diamond by reversing a 50mm or shorter lens for a 35mm camera and ... | |
| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long Steady hands are certainly necessary, though not really much more so than when brushing with LP#9 or anything else.The biggest benefit might be for users of cartridges with hollow cantilevers (ZYX and ?) whose manufacturers recommend against using... | |
| Graham Nightingale, anyone? 4yanx,I just took this off the Musical Surroundings site:"... the Nightingale integral armwand/cartridge system brings to those fortunate owners of the Graham tonearm an unprecedented level of natural musicality and refinement."Sounds like bad new... | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. Stevecham,You're the first person I've seen claiming that the ELP laser TT does an A/D/A conversion. Their own website very clearly states that it doesn't. What makes you think so?BTW, if you'd said it looks uglier than a cheap CDP I'd agree of co... | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. I have a Teres 265, thanks partly to the heavy legwork and excellent argumentation of regulars like Twl. Well, actually there's nobody quite like Twl, but you get the idea. He's already made all the cogent arguments, the gist of them being that a ... | |
| Suggestions for 45 rpm purchases? Mknowles16,One of the more shocking musical experiences in my younger days was attending my local high school's jazz band concerts. (They were very good. They sold out 2-3000 seat auditoriums and even did European tours. At any rate, when 8 or 10 ... | |
| Help with a complete vinyl setup about $2,500 Dsiggia,Assuming you haven't given up in despair, I'll second '4yanx's' modification of 'jphii's' list and add a few tidbits:Nottingham Horizon + Rega RB250: $1200Denon 103r: $241K&K trannie: $225RRL fluids: $40 (from Galen Carol)10 Last brush... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Alc777, the Graham weights have two functions. The primary reason for them is control of azimuth-rocking on warps. Stabilizing lateral inertia was a secondary benefit AFAIK. On a gimballed Rega or OL Silver no azimuth control is needed, so the pri... | |
| Suggestions for 45 rpm purchases? Albert,Now you've sent me shopping again. I really love the Classic 33rpm issue of 'Time Out', even the cymbals, but if the 45 is that much more involving and present...Mknowles16,Certainly there is a ton of music where interrupting the narrative ... | |
| Suggestions for 45 rpm purchases? Joe,That is the weirdest statement I've heard in a long time. There is certainly more of a process to playing 45rpm's due to their short side times, but that's hardly the reason why one does so. Mitchclavis,For classical try these Classic Records ... | |
| Say it aint so--- Teres quality question Nice responses from everyone since this thread re-surfaced. It's great to see things progressing in a positive direction, presumably with a final resolution in sight. The following possible causes for Patrick's VTA problem all come to mind:a) An a... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Bombaywalla, glad you finally got a chance to try them. We demoed our OL Silver both with and without the weights before glueing them on permanently. It was no contest.You probably did the right thing using a little less weight for the Benz. Twl w... | |
| What makes a good tonearm? Speaking in generalities, a non-suspended table will tend to sound "punchier" than a suspended one. For much the same reasons, a gimballed arm will tend to sound punchier than a unipivot. A more stable base for the record and cartridge will allow ... | |
| What makes a good tonearm? What do the Resolution + RB900 go for? I could offer some of my usual opinionated recommendations if I knew that. I'm guessing there are tables that will be considerably punchier. |