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Sell or keep my Turntable
Sell, the time is now. 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Anarchy, you are precious, ad hominem and all. 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Anarchy, please read the following quote:"These terms are used to refer to the same substance derived from the plant Ephedra. (There are many common names for these evergreen plants, including squaw tea and Mormon tea.) Ephedra is a shrub-like pla... 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Asdf, I never said that natural products could not be effective in certain cases, I have simply stated that this hairy fairy notion that because something is natural it is innocuous is at best untrue, and at worst dangerous. I knew the Chinese med... 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
How about the victims of "natural" products containing ephedrine used for weight reduction? Anybody who thinks that "natural" means innocuous is mistaken. As far as I know the venom from the Black Mamba is purely "natural". Another conspiracy theo... 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Lugnut: OK, am I getting too sensitive in my dotage? Drop me an e-mail, we can discuss what we heve been listening to of late. Have a nice day. 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Lugnut, Lugnut, Lugnut, now you are the one turning this into some sort of political issue. Why would I blame tinnitus on GWB or the USA? From my northerly vantage point, am I right to assume that GWB is not the USA and that the USA is not GWB? Go... 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Anarchy. Anarchy, Anarchy. I will leave your ad hominem arguments aside. I have reread my post and cannot find anything factually wrong with it. The most intelligent suggestion certainly is to see a specialist. Now if in your neck of the woods the... 
Surround music ?
Rsbeck: knee-jerk reaction. Sogood and Eldartford: right on. I score it 1-2 for mc. Adding my voice, that is a 1-3. Where does it say that reproduced music should come from two speakers, playing two channels at the front of the room? That record p... 
Tinnitus - do you have ringing in the ears?
Learn to live with it is the only recommendation. Depending on how severe your tinnitus is this may be easy enough or quite difficult. Anarchy is wrong again, chiropractors offer nothing for tinnitus sufferers except the placebo effect brought abo... 
Your opinion on cable spending
"There are none so deaf as those who will not hear". I am deaf or else thick, it appears! 
Do tube dampers really work?
The ARC LS 25 I bought used last fall came with Amperex NOS tubes and Hal-O-Dampers. Only thing I can say: the dampers do look cool. Do they affect the sound? As you have all realised: I'm too deaf to know! One thing I can say about dampers is tha... 
Idiot Newbie question
I don't know if it does any good, but I started sort of shaking my Clearaudio brush from side to side while the record rotates. I then change the angle of the brush towards the edge of the record to, more or less, steer the dust towards the edge. ... 
Your opinion on cable spending
Uppermidfi, great, nice to know you hear a difference. Great to know that a major advancement in sound reproduction is cable "technology". Who cares what other people think, right? You hear all those great improvements; I hear no difference. It's ... 
Your opinion on cable spending
Uppermidfi, I didn't say to use no cables. Just scrounge around and I am sure you can find a bunch of perfectly good cables from years gone by just lying around the house or ask a friend. You would be amazed what you can find and with a little ima...