jasonbourne52
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| wooden tonearm. cld diy I have on hand one of Joe Grado's gunstock walnut arms. So that is a good recommendation for arm use. | |
| Fr24 I do set the anti-skate on my Pioneer PLX1000 with the Denon 103R. That mechanism is magnetic. I believe it is better than the string/weight. | |
| Fr24 Awaiting mounting is an FR54. I don't think this has anti-skate either! Joe Grado didn't like anti-skate mechanisms. Since the skating force varies from the outer to inner grooves and with the groove modulation Grado believed that compensation add... | |
| Fr24 I have an FR29 with an ADC magnesium headshell and a Coral Sleeping Beauty mc cartridge. No anti-skate. Mounted on a pre- 1975 Ariston RD TT (the one that Ivor Tiefenbrun copied to make the Linn Sondek). TT mat is thin black-anodized magnesium (do... | |
| Rebuilding Power Amplifier(s) Those amps were rather expensive new! I would just replace the faulty parts in the damaged one - using the working circuit in the good one as a reference! No need to strip everything down to the bare circuit boards! Just the faulty parts! | |
| Ankits and World Audio Design Kits? World Audio Design is NOT Audio Note! They are a British company tied to the magazine Hi Fi World. Their kits are all tube-based and have been around since the early 90's. Very competent, well-engineered designs! Check out back issues of Hi Fi Wor... | |
| Any luv for Bunny Wailer? Bunny Wailer (72) - another rocker gone! Keep on rockin' in the Afterlife, Bunny! | |
| Are you troubled by the imaging of a symphony orchestra? Recording engineer Lewis Layton got it right with the RCA Living Stereo LPs. So did Donald Fine with the Mercury Living Presence LPs. John Culshaw's Ring Cycle with Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic on Decca remains a monument to recorded sound! | |
| Survey: HiFi System Priorities The speaker system has been and always will be the most important determinant of sound quality! Next is the signal source. Electronics are a distant third! | |
| Some interesting stats from Discogs Good! The market remains strong for physical media! | |
| Technics 1200G phono recommendations Schiit Mani for $129 will get the job done -- and sound excellent! | |
| Audio Research REF 75SE and REF 80S Another marketing ploy to extract more money from the insecure and gullible. | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? Owning a tangible object is important to me! So it will always be the CD! | |
| If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see? Creedance Clearwater at Woodstock, August '69! I had to be at work that weekend so no could go! | |
| If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see? Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East New Year’s Eve 1969! Instead I and three friends from Greenwich High went to the Dead show there a week earlier! I could easily have bought the Hendrix tickets when I went down to the Fillmore box ... |