banquo363Air, Magnets, String & TapeThanks for the heads up, Slaw. Rest assured I've now taken strong measures against such wall-cable miscegenation. It won't happen again on my watch :).Is the wrongness of wall-cable mating ... posted over 10 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesContinuing on the same theme, I heard some distortion on one channel last week. Opened up the rm10 amp to witness a general mess: a cap had leaked. It's only 4 years old, so...? Got a lemon cap, I ... posted over 10 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI must be cursed. I ordered some Psvane el84 tubes from China 3 weeks ago. This morning's tracking reads: Undeliverable as addressed. Good grief, how hard is it for a business to get a shipping add... posted over 10 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI am getting real close to tape with the stock platter so I am happy with it and have not been tempted. There's no arguing with that result. I do... posted over 10 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesCt0517: that degree of love for a platter mat would render impossible the ability to remove the platter on direct drive tt's. I don't love my skins that much, although it's true that I sold my Bost... posted over 10 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSo the seller knew what he was talking about, Halcro: there are two different mats. I remember when Top Class Audio had one of these and it was brown like mine. You bought yours from there, right?<... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesHalcro: your description of the 'magical' victor pigskin makes me despise the US Postal Service even more.According to the seller of mine, it was sourced from Mexico and there were 2 differ... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesInteresting point, Ct0517. I don't know the first thing about leather, let alone audiophile grade leather, if such there be. I agree nevertheless with the idea that it would be subject to changes i... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Not without a little drama, I received my 47 Laboratory deerskin platter mat today. First reaction: the hole is slightly off center so part of the mat hangs over the rim of the tt101... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI received a message today from the USPS asking me if I had received my package (containing the pigskin mat). When I called back, another rep told me that an investigation had been opened today. Th... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeThanks, Ct0517. As usual, more than generous.Too bad that copy of Girl Talk sold; I would have bought that. I like it; I like it a lot. The other copy on the bay is priced for Bill Gates. A... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Found a neat Signet electronic stylus cleaner on audiocircle. Never knew such a thing existed until a couple of days ago. Been using magic eraser for years, but audiophilia demands n... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesIndeed, Halcro, it is. Maybe they're confusing it for some prohibited exotic skin, I know not what. If I ever get it, it'll probably have a chunk excised, the chunk they removed to test for identif... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesIt took a long time and if you recall he was waiting on a bolt that he ended up making himself to complete the job.As the kids like to say, Alex has mad ... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeYou have contracted an especially virulent strain of audiophilia. I'm not nearly as affected, although it is true that should I buy a different house it will with certainty contain a dedicated list... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesThe x-1 cart that I have, ct0517, is a serious PITA. As documented, I had difficulty extracting the original stylus assembly. I speculated that it had been in the housing for a long time and that t... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesIt's not a SAS stylus, Halcro. It's a shibata that Jico makes for this cart (the original is a shibata); Jico doesn't make a SAS for the x-1/ii or else I'd consider giving it a go. But to be honest... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI examined my broken stylus assembly for the x1 cartridge. It's impressive. Looks to be a solid beryllium cantilever (on identifying cantilever material, see griffithds' excellent post posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesWell, I couldn't leave well alone. The x-1 cart was sounding pretty glorious (I mean, top of the bunch kind of glorious), but I had some unquenchable and inexplicable desire to try out the Jico sty... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeI would love nothing more than a dedicated audio room. When I bought my house 3 years ago, I hadn't caught the audio bug yet, so did not take it into account.I haven't had a chance to hear ... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesThanks, Acman. I'll post on the MM thread. The tt101 was an ordeal. It didn't work when I bought it, and it took me a year to find someone competent to fix it. In the end, it was worth it. ... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Added some new toys. TeraDak power supply for the awesome Lightspeed volume control. Previously used a wall wart to power the led's in the LSA. Sounded great to me. But the TeraDak m... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Impressed by the Oyaide leads I recently purchased, I had Audio Origami in the UK construct some leads out of silver Ikeda and Kondo wire. He did an excellent job and the wires are v... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeCool stuff. Maybe I'm an endorphin junkie because, to my wife's dismay, I listen to music every chance I get. And it tends to get louder as the evening wears on.Happy New Year, Chris! posted almost 11 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Been eyeing analysis plus cables for some time now and decided to pull the trigger on 2 pairs of solo crystal ic's. Preliminary results are very promising. Definitely a cable believe... posted almost 11 years ago | View comment |