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| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? I visited website of fixmydual.com . They are prefect, in my opinion, for service of a Dual TT. Charges seem to be reasonable ( $150 - 175 plus shipping ) .They seem to be located in Austin , TX. | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? Your TT most likely only needs cleaning , and lubricating. It has set for many years, so some grease is dried up or the lube is lost. So all moving parts need through wiping, cleaning with alcohol and fresh lube or grease . Electrical and RCA cont... | |
| Electrostatic Speakers I have been using since last 6-7 years, Electro Stat speakers from a company from India called Cadence Audio . I have their flagship model ARCA, which are hybrid type with 12’ woofers. With 91.5 dB sensitivity and 8 ohm avg., my 35 wpc tube amp dr... | |
| Recommendations for CD Player/DAC Combo I got my CD player Cary CD-303 years ago and about in year 2011 I got its DAC section faulty and not working. So purchased Bryston BDA-1 DAC to work with my Cary 303. Eve since I have been using my CD player Cary 303 as a transport and Bryston BD... | |
| Tube amps and heat If I may add: the fan runs at 12 v and quite at 30 dB under standby mode of amp and at reduced volts under "operate" mode of amp to run at 24-26 dB. So I guess adding two fans would still be ok on noise level, but will have to find out. Any sugge... | |
| Tube amps and heat I live in western India where summer temperature ( Highs ) is 40-46 degree Celsius (104 - 115 degree F ) everyday during day time , my tube amp is AES SuperAmp Signature 35 wpc with 4xKT88 , 2x E88CC and 2x6BQ5 . I have A.C. fitted in the listeni... | |
| Speaker cables if your amp isn't between your speakers grannyring,I saw on PCX , they have Duelund hook up wires of "silver foil & silk / oil "(version 1,2 and 3 ) also . Do you think they will be worth to go for compared to " copper &cotton / oil " , assuming additional cost is within budget... | |
| Planar speaker placement So much so good for the speaker industry !! Now audiophiles may buy an extra pair of speakers for placing next to the working speakers ! | |
| Preamps-Tube I have mostly used tube PreAmps with my tube Amp and am very happy with tube PreAmps. Currently I have Reimyo CAT 777 as Pre on my system. Its tube complement includes two 12AU7s for amplification, two 12BH7As as tube buffers, and two 6X4WAs as t... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? Reg replacing the faulty capacitor in power supply side of Dual 1228:I have not opened the TT yet as I am traveling . But from search it appears that it is a capacitor of value 0.068 uf / 250 v . In this value there is hardly any availability, or... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? Thanks Norman,I will sure try to replace that capacitor ASAP. I will be very happy if this solves the problem .In the mean time , I am turning the volume down at the start of the play. I have the service manual of 1228 , but could not find solutio... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? Norman," Enjoy your Dual, when you can, and only if you feel the need too, upgrade. But make sure the upgrade is an actual upgrade in sound, not just in cost."Yes, I am really enjoying my Dual as of now and find it more and more musical and wis... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? playpen, I have just done very similar cleaning only last night on my Dual . I took out the headshell , disconnected the 4 delicate wire leads from cartridge pins , Deoxit with N5 type first then with 100 % solution to clean all 4 pins of cart, an... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? Norman, the link on Linn LP12 given by you makes really some hard but very interesting reading for new anolog enthusiast like me . Also it is kind of eye opener demanding more neutral and realistic self assessment, of any audio gear for that matte... | |
| Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ? normansizemore,I noted with interest your remark that :"When I shut off my Dual, the platter will spin on its own for a good two or three minutes. That is excellent engineering."That prompted me to clock my own Dual 1228 platter , it recorded 1 m... |