sleepwalker65
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| Phono preamp/turntable connection question. Tonearm to phono stage is the most critical to proper cable selection. You want the lowest capacitance cable as possible and good shielding with high output impedance moving magnet cartridges. Moving coil cartridges with significantly lower output... | |
| Warm up Turntable Box head, no-problem. Any time you want to learn about reality I can enlighten you. | |
| Technics 1200G - clamp record weight or no record weight? @chakster I see what you mean. The clamp you are using would reduce slipping of the record by coupling it laterally to the spindle. Neat idea. | |
| Vintage Cassettes: Direct Drive, 3 Heads: Sendust I owned a slew of Technics cassette decks, culminating with the near top-end RS-M234X, which sounded great and had dbx, Dolby C and Dolby B noise reduction systems. After my brother destroyed it, I bought a Sony TC-K570 which is a 3-head, 3 motor ... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? @gshepardbuster most SL-1200mk2 turntables have been destroyed by rap “DJ”s. Too bad because with a few isolation tweaks and the KAB fluid damper, they are pretty good. Almost as good as the SL-1800mk2 on which it was based. | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? I’ve got a SL-1700mk2 semi-auto that I restored recently and fitted with an Audio-Technica VM540ML cartridge. It was probably the best Technics had from the ‘78/‘79 period next to the SP-10. The venerable SL-1200mk2 was based on the SL-1800mk2 man... | |
| Technics 1200G - clamp record weight or no record weight? Chalkser there is a big difference between a clamp and a weight. The clamp pulls the spindle upwards, causing it to not sit properly in its main bearing race, and pulling it off of its only thrust bearing, which is at the bottom of the spindle. Th... | |
| Trade Shows Aside from CES, the World Wide Web has made trade shows extinct. | |
| Technics 1200G - clamp record weight or no record weight? Technics doesn’t have an upper thrust bearing, so don’t use a clamp or you will damage the spindle. | |
| Warm up Turntable You can pre-spin your “vinyls” to make sure they are ready to play. As long as you spin them 2 hours or less before playing, all of the photons will be lined up. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Photons huh? Well I’d like to see light pass through a sheet of copper. That would be real special. Lmao. | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? Somebody claimed that “all wire is directional”. That is nonsense, but I can see where people who don’t know better would get that idea: they heard it from someone who heard from someone else, who saw how it’s done with balanced cables in pro audi... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? There is only need for speaker cable burn-in in the minds of people who believe in it. There are no moving parts, unlike an automobile engine that does require a break-in period for the bearings and piston rings to take a “set”. | |
| I'm happy with my cleaning method of LP's but am I missing anything? I like the idea of two SpinClean units followed by vacuum removal of remaining fluids and contaminants. I just bought my first SpinClean and have purchased most of the parts to make my record vacuum which will simultaneously clean both sides. Now ... | |
| Ethernet cable? What kind? For streaming, don’t even think of ever needing 10G. You won’t ever see an Internet Service capable of more than 1G in 20 years. CAT5e is all you need for 1G. Terminate solid core cable with jacks that are either installed in wall plates or surfac... |