viridian
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| Vinyl LPs produced by Rhino distributed by Scorpio I bought the Coleman "Shape of Jazz To Come" and it is fantastic. Nothing like the Scorpio Blue Notes. | |
| Ear834p Question Zieman has it backwards, super loud is the MC setting, as it puts the step-up transformers into the circuit. and the appropriate volume is MM setting. These forums have really gone downhill, lots of bad advice going around. | |
| Why do dealers do this? Bill, the missing Stooge would actually be the sixth one. Larry, Moe, Curly, Shemp, Joe Besser. Why I oughta! | |
| Album Storage My garage is too wet to store my treasured Archie comics collection, so I keep my first pressing Blue Notes out there in cardboard boxes I bought at the U-Haul. That Veronica sure is hot. | |
| Why do dealers do this? Danlib1, I'm American, and I'm an idiot; must be true. | |
| Question about tubes in the old days In the old days, It was common to take your tubes into the electronics store where they had a large, floor standing, tube tester out on the floor for you to use. So most people just tested their own tubes, once a year, or when perfomance seemed to... | |
| Why Not Bring Back Analog, Reel to Reel Tape Norman, I'm 51, but that means that I grew up in the psychedelic generation, and have no memory of anything before today's breakfast.Best,Marty | |
| CJ Grand Anniversary Triode 300SEB Amp So cj, Gat, Kent Gatlin, was their Service Manager for many years and has since passed away. Perhaps a memorial piece to him, much as VPI did the JMW tonearm. | |
| Most Important? Shadorne, what a simplistic explanation. To clarify, not only must the magnatude of the distortion be considered, but the spectra and type of that distortion. As an example, is the 3% second harmonic distortion of a loudspeaker less consonant with... | |
| TRELJA in Denver - 2008 Joe, thanks so much for the in depth reportage; clearly a labor of love.Best,Marty | |
| Most Important? Make mine the second vote for spending the least amount of money on the speakers, and the most amount on the source. | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? Raul, old friend, as usual, you have much greater insight than I do. I have not tried either at 100K. Thanks for the guidance.Regards,Marty | |
| bad cartridge or am I overlooking something? The grooveless record method is completely wrong for setting anti-skate. Swampy is right, set it by ear; even visually looking at the cantilever being centered in the magnetic gap is better than the method that you are using now. Elvick, if you wa... | |
| Why do dealers do this? Danlib1, I doubt that the kid was able to keep his job; he's probably at his new job, selling audio gear, right now. | |
| Who Is An Expert On Acutex Cartridges? No expert here, but a few details. The company was owned by Ken Kantor, who also owned a chain of audio stores on the East Coast in the 1970s. Acutex is long gone. I have a 315 and 320 lll STR and they are not particularly good cartridges by curre... |