viridian
Responses from viridian
| Top resale value speakers Both the Quad ESL-57 and the various incarnations of the BBC engineered LS 3/5A sell well in excess of their retail price thirty years ago. Can't beat that. | |
| Help Consistent mistracking in the beginning of lp Reduce your anti-skating force by a good bit and see if it still happens. Marty | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Is butter a better lubricant than nubian maiden sweat? Or is that only on left handed tables, and is it true that if you take them below the equator that they spin the other way? Whoa, dude, that would be like CDs! | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? "...home despot thread" pretty funny, what kind of table does Baby Doc Duvalier use at home? | |
| Looking for a good cartridge... My favorites in this price range are the Ortofon OM-10, for a brighter sound, which can be upgraded to the better Ortofon models for only the cost of the replacement stylus, and the Shure M97xE, which is a bit darker, both at the top of your price... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Good to see that you wandered over here from the Vinyl Asylum. I am in complete agreement, though I never claimed that any technology was superior; I am more interested in fun than superiority. Oh, and I will need to be a beta tester for that nubi... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? I find it intigueing that Brinkman, who make one of the finest belt drive tables out there, recently introduced a DD model. Interestingly, they are also the US importer for the Norma-Hylee-Tech modded Thorens TD-124 idler-drive tables. Grand Prix ... | |
| When is the best time to buy equipment?? Around 3PM Pacific time. | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? It is too bad that so many shoddy, cheap, direct-drive tables were churned out in the 70s and 80s. Many truly sound terrible and have given this drive system a bad name. Regrettably, most people have not had the opportunity to hear a properly set-... | |
| Another Dealer sets the Bar LOW LOL, we love to denigrate the dealers in these forums, but this is the type of folderol that THEY have to put up with. I don't think that they make enough money to have to deal with this stuff. Substitute "car" for "speakers" and see how far you g... | |
| Terminating Power cord. Sheild tied to the earth lug at the wall receptacle end only. | |
| Which Patricia Barber album floats yer boat? Then again, maybe the pay is pretty good. | |
| What are these tubes Almost all tubes are marked with the tube type, but due to environmental conditions the paint frequently falls off. If you will exhale onto the outside of the glass, the moisture in your breath will often make the obsucured lettering legible. Octa... | |
| Neat cheap amp suggestions . Help me have fun. BD, I live in Portland Oregon, its a good day when I don't have to wear waders in the house! | |
| Neat cheap amp suggestions . Help me have fun. BD, mea culpa. You suggested the B&K ST-140 which I owned, when new, and could never get to drive my speakers of the time, Spica TC-50, cleanly. But it made me think of the Van Alstine MosFet 120B, the amp on which the B&K circuit was, ahe... |