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| Good News ABC news reported this morning that Serius is not far behind, seriusly. | |
| Help With Headphone Amp Repair: MF X-Cans v.2 Typically, these break at the stress points, which is were the phone jack meets the board, or internally within the phone jack. Try playing some music with the headphones plugged in and jiggle the jack around a bit. Do you hear anything? | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment One of the wags that manufactures tube gear said that solid state is like a stuffed dog, no mainenance, no grief. But a tube amp is like a real, live, dog. Once in a while it poops or pisses on the rug, needs to be taken to the vet and has to be w... | |
| Beginner's questions re: amps, sorry a bit long Certainly, if your goal is to upgrade your system over several years, replacing the existing gear with higher performance gear, then a better amp makes sense. However, if you intend to keep your speakers, CD player and turntable, then it pretty mu... | |
| AR XA Assembly Post shipping. Mark, hang in. The 2 groove drive spindle is the motor pulley. The different grooves relate to the 45rpm and 33.33 rpm speeds that the platter is designed to turn at. When you turn on the motor, this should turn. It should not wobble. Then again, ... | |
| AR XA Assembly Post shipping. Pretty simple really, first check out all of the excellent AR related stuff on the Vinyl Nirvana website:http://www.vinylnirvana.com/There are lots of exploded photos etc. But really, you just want to put some oil in the bearing, slip the spindle ... | |
| AR-XA or Thorens 165 vs current tables Wendell, I stand corrected. The issue with the AR tables as relates to record damage is the variability in the arm bearings, yours being good, no doubt. My luck was not as good, with both horizontal and vertical friction being excessive on the Art... | |
| AR-XA or Thorens 165 vs current tables Why not the the older Rega, the Planar 3? They sell for around $450.00? Same arm as the P3. The P3 and the Planar3 come with a glass platter standard, not MDF. The plinth is some type of fiberboard, but that is actually a design element, it is sup... | |
| AR-XA or Thorens 165 vs current tables No, not at all. Not ever. Not in your wildest dreams. Now you can mod the XA and have a good table, but the first thing that has to go is the arm, so it doesn't chew through your record collection. By the time you put a Rega arm on it and new spri... | |
| Clamp & Counterweight For Rega P3-2000 Are you aware that the counterweight is only used to balance the arm at zero and that the tracking force is then applied with the rotating knob on the arm support? No way that the counterweight will be maxed out with the light Rega cartridge. If y... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- You're here posting into the Audiogon forums instead of listening to the heavenly Netrebko/Villazon "Duets" album. | |
| Rega P3-24 Vs VPI Scout. I find that Americans equate material value with sound quality, and on those grounds, the VPI certainly is heavier and more..........well butch. But one must understand that the theory behind the Rega is that the less mass there is, the less mass ... | |
| Integrated amp under $ 500. Acurus DIA-100. | |
| Noise on Eva Cassidy-Songbird CD That's the sound of cash registers ringing. | |
| Tube Buffer Pretty much all of this information is in the forums already, a simple search will find it. Please see my answer near the bottom of the page:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ymisc&1172186310&read&keyw&zzbufferGood luck. |