billstevenson
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| Factory Teflon Cap upgrade for Conrad Johnson Premier Five Jeff does not make frequent or frivolous modifications. In my experience every time he comes up with something new it results in a worthwhile improvement. I am quite confident you will not be disappointed. | |
| Mcintosh MQ112 FWIW, my 802 D Diamonds are neutral, not bright at all. You need to work on setup. As a quick place to start, play with speak toe in. Start with no toe in at all. You might find Paul McGowan's book on speaker set up helpful from his series The... | |
| Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable? Well whether there is any benefit to weighting or clamping is definitely record dependent. For perfectly flat records, I agree that there is little or no benefit and in fact a weight can actually dampen or choke the sound a bit. A clamp has no d... | |
| Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable? I have used record weights on both my VPI HW40 and Technics SL1200GAE without trouble. However I have also found a KAB record clamp to work as well or better for a lot less money and frankly prefer it. | |
| South Florida - join in and make a REAL effort! I am interested. Live in Wellington. | |
| VPI tonearm rewire One of the wires was damaged on my HW40. The arm was sent back to VPI for re-wire. I have no idea what they used, but it sounds great. | |
| Wool Felt Footers? Isoacoustics Gaia feet need to be matched by weight to the item they are being used to support in order to be effective. They are very effective if applied correctly. I have them under both speakers and turntables and they do make a noticeable d... | |
| Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records The Tiger cloth is no longer available. Is there an option or another vendor? | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Would someone please elucidate as to the point of this discussion? | |
| Footers under new speakers Isoacoustic GAIA are my choice, but in your situation frankly I don't think they are your best option. Of the suggestions made so far I recommend you carefully consider the link provided by ditusa. | |
| Sequerra Reference FM Tuner vs …. Accuphase T-1000, MD 108T, etc The Sequerra is definitely a statement tuner there is no question about that. It performs best with a good directional antenna. It is very sensitive, but is perhaps somewhat more susceptible to multipath distortion than a few others, although I ... | |
| Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records I just want to thank both of you for this very enlightening discussion. Both the recommended light and TFE rod are on order. | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion It is funny how some times the simple solution is the best one. | |
| Top vintage receivers vs. modern high-end equipment I worked at a high end store in the Seattle area while a student at UW back in the early 1970s. We had an eclectic group of customers who had a variety of what were then considered to be among the best speakers that money could buy. Paragon, SR8... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? Harry at VPI sold me a VAS Nova mono several years ago. It is excellent and when I had it refurbished by Steve Leung a couple of years ago, he also furnished a matching Nova stereo version. These sound particularly good for classical music to my... |