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1: Vinyl Asylum, Hmm, each time I post it dissappears (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-20, 14:02:11 (76.170.87.216)
Lots of my previous posts are gone, too. Since I don't use profane language on this asylum, and abide by the recent ruling of the Board not to mention or refer to a specific manufacturer, I can't imag .......
2: Tubes Asylum, quick one, matching vs balanced triodes vs both (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-16, 14:02:17 (76.170.87.216)
Of these are two services from tube sellers, on small sig tubes, what makes sense for a tubed phonostage using two 12ax7 and two 12au7 ? This is a moving-mag gain phonostage, so not ridiculous gain re .......
3: Vinyl Asylum, depends on the vintage ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-14, 14:16:43 (76.170.87.216)
You'd have to look up the year of production to find out if that was a year where they believed in anti-skate or didn't. Or believed that you could twist the wires in the arm-- yeah, really, the sign .......
4: Whiner's Woad, depends on the vintage ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-14, 14:16:43 (76.170.87.216)
You'd have to look up the year of production to find out if that was a year where they believed in anti-skate or didn't. Or believed that you could twist the wires in the arm-- yeah, really, the sign .......
5: Vinyl Asylum, to support a like-minded local biz &-- it's different from thrift, yard (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-13, 10:05:54 (76.170.87.216)
As we've all seen, a single determined buyer can often strip out the goods from the Lp section of a yard sale. And at that point the yardsale is forever defunct. To lp hunters, at least. A small det .......
6: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Blue Circle Audio turntable (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-12, 13:41:08 (76.170.87.216)
Ditto all your questions about this one. Looks like a "bob the machinist and his kid ronnie helped him put this together in the back of the shop on saturdays and we showed it to the boss and he said .......
7: Vinyl Asylum, Full-function phono preamplifier (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-10, 11:19:56 (76.170.87.216)
Full-function phono preamplifier-- vacuum tube-- is the phonostage of choice. But I'm also lucky enough to have a standalone phono -solidstate-- as well. Answer: integrated, full-function phono pre. .......
8: Vinyl Asylum, You're right. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-10, 10:58:37 (76.170.87.216)
You post : "AFAIK there's no reason to think stand alone phono stages are inherently better than phono stages in "full function" preamps." To which I'd add there is every reason to expect benefits fro .......
9: Vinyl Asylum, any real correlations ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-08, 17:09:16 (76.170.87.216)
Interested to know if anyone has a handle on the correlation of Tonearm type to Table type. Often enough, a beltdrive table will have a unipivot arm, these days medium eff mass, but in the past quit .......
10: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "blueish and cool rather than a warmish jet black?" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-08, 16:36:08 (76.170.87.216)
You betcha. You're going to be a great addition around here. Stay colorful. .......
11: Vinyl Asylum, RE: " silences blueish and cool rather than a warmish jet black?" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-08, 13:22:55 (76.170.87.216)
Wait. You post that you want to know if "silences" are "Blueish" and you suggest that I'm holding drugs ? Allow me to suggest some "warmish jet black" coffee . .......
12: Vinyl Asylum, "VPI background silences blueish and cool rather than a warmish jet black?" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-07, 12:12:14 (76.170.87.216)
"For example, are VPI background silences blueish and cool rather than a warmish jet black?" I don't think we have the accumulated brainpower here to do justice to this one. When I used to own one, I .......
13: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Dry brushes (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-07, 11:09:52 (76.170.87.216)
As mentioned below, you want the softer AQ brush if you want to try for a near-physical-impossibility, ie finishing your brush-up in the perpendicular direction, across the grain, away from the label, .......
14: Vinyl Asylum, I say first things first, get an exterminator for those bees. /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-07, 10:50:56 (76.170.87.216)
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15: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Rockler bench (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-04, 15:40:25 (76.91.197.88)
Ah, now I see. It isn't sorbothane. Lot of info there, thanks. J. .......
16: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Rockler bench (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-04, 15:25:23 (76.91.197.88)
Hi JD, I use those things too, and yeah, a surprisingly good footer. I still use them under my Cd Transport. What was the deal supposed to be with the constraining ring ? I have a set of AQ pucks, s .......
17: Vinyl Asylum, split decision (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-04, 11:28:54 (76.91.197.88)
Good questions. I think it has to come down to how you think of music and how you've settled on enjoying it, or whether you'd be just as content with a copy of The Ab$olute Sound and a demo cd. There' .......
18: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Rockler bench cookies (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-04, 10:34:06 (76.91.197.88)
Great looking.. thing. Seems like a great idea, too. Even if you don't use them in the system, they look really useful. As wedges or chocks for changing-out cones or pucks, or as pads for platter or .......
19: Vinyl Asylum, from the (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-04, 10:25:54 (76.91.197.88)
From deep inside the humid crawl-space of the internet, the third and final sock-poodle ! In case anybody lost track, Tao is the peeved, sensitive troll , wawa is the angry troll and norm4squares is t .......
20: Vinyl Asylum, you're welcome, and now (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-03, 10:04:30 (76.91.197.88)
You're welcome, now you can go back in your hiding place to wait for the next time. If the services of a sock-poodle are required , you'll be the first to hear. Or at least you're on a very short list .......
21: Vinyl Asylum, actually, readers who look carefully... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 19:52:09 (76.91.197.88)
Longtime readers, who look carefully, will notice that members Wawa2020 Tao Noroom4squares ... and a few others are rarely here at vinylasylum, but often turn up just to be on hand for little other t .......
22: Vinyl Asylum, RE: thanks. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 19:16:06 (76.91.197.88)
It's good to have friends. .......
23: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Nothing to show. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 19:11:52 (76.91.197.88)
Again, nothing to show. And New Accusations, with, again, nothing to show. Try your chip-on-your-shoulder act on somebody else. Final answer. .......
24: Vinyl Asylum, Nothing to show. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 15:57:48 (76.91.197.88)
Nothing to show. Guess you couldn't "bring up some additional J.D. hyperbole towards mapleshade". Can't say you showed anybody any "hyperbole", period. No link, no nothing. "I directed the OP to some .......
25: Vinyl Asylum, thanks. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 14:10:42 (76.91.197.88)
Careful reading is always a positive thing. .......
26: Vinyl Asylum, you're saying there's only the one ..? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 14:01:06 (76.91.197.88)
" It doesn't look like they will survive for very long. That means there won't be any record stores left in Seattle." You're saying there's only one actual record store in Seattle ?? Sounds like a rip .......
27: Vinyl Asylum, RE: 'upgrades' (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 13:56:42 (76.91.197.88)
That's right, its important to me to be upfront about stating that I had NOT used or purchased anything from Mapleshade. In spite of their remarkable claims. In fact, that statement is directly below .......
28: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Nuance aplenty..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 12:39:10 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, I can't believe that the Overkill method really hooks the deep pockets, either. Seems like if you really want a One-Time Crowd Of Cheap-Tweak Day-Trippers, you wow them with the extravagant cla .......
29: Vinyl Asylum, RE upgrades (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 12:21:43 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe you would be kind enough to point to exact examples of that "additional J.D. hyperbole" and show them in-context. Just to be fair to yourself. Otherwise readers might think you're just taking a .......
30: Vinyl Asylum, 'Phonophile' upgrades....... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-02, 11:23:59 (76.91.197.88)
There's just something a little funny about the Mapleshade thing that sets off my alarm bells. I have never purchased or used any of their products, for the record. But there is a link that goes int .......
31: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Short listening session (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-10-01, 09:52:02 (76.91.197.88)
((This has nothing to do with the suspension topic below, but applies to the demo-room procedures.)) Just a very small item: don't let showroom people program your brief evaluation with showroom reco .......
32: Vinyl Asylum, Koetstu cartridges not particularly fussy to set up. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-27, 10:27:07 (76.91.197.88)
Agree with below post about heavy arm -- my old Koetsu Black likes the medieval mass of the Sme 3012 series I much more than the 3012R variant and more then the lighter Graham, Rega etc arms I've used .......
33: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The advantages of mono (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-27, 10:21:44 (76.91.197.88)
Possibly one of these compact little units. This one certainly is a Tannoy, a westminster-royal I think, and there is the advantage to using the classic "Dual Concentric" design in a mono setup. S .......
34: Vinyl Asylum, viper slang (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-27, 09:12:45 (76.91.197.88)
"The first time that I smoked Marijuana (or) Gage as they so beautifully calls' it some time, was a couple of years after I had left Flecther Henderson's Orchestra… And I'm telling you, I had myself .......
35: Vinyl Asylum, Distinction: Sgl sleeve Unipak covered many pressings... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-23, 11:14:58 (76.91.197.88)
There's a distinction to be made here. The first pressing was in fact a Unipak, as described below, and so were many pressings thereafter . It was a good long while (a year or more, if I recall) till .......
36: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What is that thing!? ;-) (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-21, 15:46:46 (76.91.197.88)
This little arch-tweak is where the rubber meets the road. Kind of literally. You know all that tech and (carbonfiber, ceramic, titanium, name it) expense that went into making your high-end tonearm d .......
37: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What makes the biggest sonic difference in turntables ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-21, 12:34:45 (76.91.197.88)
THIS Thing !! No, just kidding. But this thing is pretty funny. .......
38: Vinyl Asylum, RE: VPI: Eliminate the rubber feet from the motor pod ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-20, 16:12:03 (76.91.197.88)
Hmmmm. Eliminating the feet on a Vpi Motorpod. Increase in prat, snappier, more focussed..... Well, as above, I did exactly that, at least five years back, and no doubt I wasn't the first on this pa .......
39: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thanks for the link (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-19, 14:05:29 (76.91.197.88)
Sorry, it appeared that they were offering four full relay-switched inputs ... "This is good for source selection say, to add up to 4 more inputs to your Steelhead, or other preamplifiers, amplifiers .......
40: Vinyl Asylum, RE: 1 x mono preamp & 4 TTs... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-19, 10:14:40 (76.91.197.88)
Have a look at the linked page. .......
41: Vinyl Asylum, "To gain international approvals, I wanted to use a high quality switching power supply" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-15, 11:18:01 (76.91.197.88)
.. Ewg. .......
42: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Hashimoto MC transformer (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-11, 14:10:00 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for pointing this out. The Hashimoto thing has been gaining slow momentum since it emerged from the shadows of Sansui, then being chosen for house trannie at AirTight and other concerns; Dick O .......
43: Vinyl Asylum, RE: hide-glue misconceptions (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-11, 10:34:02 (76.91.197.88)
Once you've injected the vodka, reinsert the watermelon plug and seal with hideglue. The classic misunderstanding goes something like ... "Hideglue is an outdated methodology that's been made obs .......
44: Vinyl Asylum, couple things (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-11, 09:18:31 (76.91.197.88)
In fact, contrary to what you say, most hideglue users use it both ways-- clamped securely for a full overnight cure for a wide expanse (like the broad areas in layered-plynths) of contact-area... Or, .......
45: Vinyl Asylum, hot hide-glue misconceptions (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-09-10, 10:11:26 (76.91.197.88)
To cids (re original linked post below) :: Not sure why you might think Shindo uses hide-glue for his Garrard plinth, although he just might. Is there some referece or article that claims he does ? J .......
46: Vinyl Asylum, thanks mucho, catch you at the self-help shelf at the bookstore ..../nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-09, 20:53:14 (76.91.197.88)
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47: Vinyl Asylum, "Why don't you warrantee someones turntable, better yet, why don't you build something and sell it." (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-09, 12:05:07 (76.91.197.88)
This is the man you want to be congratulating with your $2k, $3k -oops- , forgot the SDS now it's $4.2k, then replacing new parts with better new parts for $600, $150, $800, add some more until -oops .......
48: Vinyl Asylum, Always A Remarkably Memorable Pleasure To Have Your Thoughts, Mr W (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-08, 22:18:28 (76.91.197.88)
Always A Remarkably Memorable Pleasure To Have Your Thoughts, Mr W.-- Really. And always, by coincidence, I'm certain, on the occasion of having to defend your... never-quite-competent-till-upgraded- .......
49: Vinyl Asylum, RE: garrard slate plinth project..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-08, 10:19:30 (76.91.197.88)
Great project; barring death by slate-ingestion or electrocution, of course. Questions : How thick is the slate panel you're working on ?--And will you keep that dimension or stack a couple vertically .......
50: Vinyl Asylum, future-past of music article, link (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-06, 12:19:06 (76.91.197.88)
From this week's New Yorker magazine...... .......
51: Vinyl Asylum, V.S.O.P. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-04, 20:33:59 (76.91.197.88)
Makes horrible record-cleaning fluid, but a real performance enhancing tweak for the 'system'. .......
52: Vinyl Asylum, RE: agree with most ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-02, 11:15:04 (76.91.197.88)
Re 'snobbery against asia' .. look around, there's xenophobic comment here about regarding just about anywhere you'd choose. The more different or alien, the more the phobic reaction. I can only imagi .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, RE: in the minority because (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 20:31:17 (76.91.197.88)
You're in the winner's circle, though. Agree. .......
54: Vinyl Asylum, RE: not surprised (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 20:30:23 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, see ya in the unfortunate-self-proclaimed-victims ward. Stay you, all absorbed and all. .......
55: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Have to (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 14:56:12 (76.91.197.88)
I have it on good authority that the number one top-secret choice of Enhanced Interrogation Specialists on both sides of the idealogical curtain is the strikingly unique 'material' recorded by TOTO. " .......
56: Vinyl Asylum, RE: in order, (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 14:45:55 (76.91.197.88)
.... Gaucho at Number One ? I'm going to go ahead and give you the Audiophilers Carte-Blanche Waiver, which entitles you to mistake good sound on recordings for music. But only in private; you can't .......
57: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Best Steely Dan ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 14:37:25 (76.91.197.88)
KEEPIN IT REEL Certainly not much argument that these three : Your Mama Can't Dance House At Pooh Corner Vahevala Are at the top of any true Steely Dan fan's list. And I know Donald & Walter w .......
58: Vinyl Asylum, yeah, and also... don't dare criticise nuclear reactors if you haven't built one (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-08-01, 10:14:50 (76.91.197.88)
Makes good sense, right ? Excellent work there. Stick with it, you're convincing somebody or other. .......
59: Vinyl Asylum, "The Alternative Force" RCM .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-31, 11:41:01 (76.91.197.88)
Howdy, Audiophilers !! Looking into the many powerful and intense forces we can bring to bear, with an assist from nature, in building a new-millenium Record Cleaning Machine. Some of my first effor .......
60: Vinyl Asylum, Neither. Couldn't really have been clearer in the directly-adjacent post above. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-31, 10:52:05 (76.91.197.88)
Once more ? Why sure. " 1) the commonly deployed 'you can't criticise unless you build them yourself' fallacy has to be punctured, and 2) if one is always so high-blood-pressured & indignant about on .......
61: Vinyl Asylum, RE: questions for plinth builders. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-30, 14:38:01 (76.91.197.88)
1) What's the best way to connect the top plate and armboard to the plinth... long screws going deep into the wood ... I've done a fair amount of experimenting on this one, with plinths & armboards b .......
62: Vinyl Asylum, RE: with the Peripheral Purchases Plan .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-30, 09:37:39 (76.91.197.88)
The question isn't about Vpi table setup -- a child could do it-- the question is, when exactly are you done paying for your table to sound competent ? I see you've bought an Aries 3. How much more d .......
63: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Not H.W. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-30, 09:28:20 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks; none of us will now set out to build our own. The point of my post, however, was different. And two-fold : 1) the commonly deployed 'you can't criticise unless you build them yourself' fallacy .......
64: Vinyl Asylum, RE: with the Periphery (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 20:52:35 (76.91.197.88)
You can never have too much time. And it's good to be jolly. .......
65: Vinyl Asylum, RE: reissue of Kinks "Muswell Hillbillies" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 17:46:57 (76.91.197.88)
Picked this up at Princeton Rec Exchange last month; haven't spun it yet, but I'll post back if it's extra-good or horrendously not-so. J. .......
66: Vinyl Asylum, RE: with the Periphery Ring Clamp (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 17:44:22 (76.91.197.88)
Ah, if only HW were here for a furious and vein-bursting "Just you try making your own damn periphery clamp if you think it's so excessive !" Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll make one of his too infreq .......
67: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "Nostradamus" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 15:19:54 (76.91.197.88)
Nostradamus predicted Al Gore. Or vice-versa. Pretty sure. .......
68: Vinyl Asylum, I was getting smaller (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 15:18:56 (76.91.197.88)
I was getting small regularly in 1973. Real small. Met Stewart in a surprise-attack mode, as he was accompanied by (also young) Michael Tierson (tearson ?) walking into Wmmr at, what would it have bee .......
69: Vinyl Asylum, and for every situation, a cliché (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 15:13:30 (76.91.197.88)
for every pun. 'Bottom' line. .......
70: Vinyl Asylum, RE: TT not benefit from mods/isolation? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-29, 10:57:05 (76.91.197.88)
Broad question and you'll get many varieties of answer, but I'd say that the difference between the Rega and other 'usual suspect' sort of tables-- dual or thorens in vintage, vpi or nottingham in cur .......
71: Vinyl Asylum, the whole catalog of... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-28, 17:23:25 (76.91.197.88)
Coincidentally, I also was able to get Mr Stewart to sign the whole back catalog of his lps, but this was outside the Fm Station in Philadelphia WMMR in 1973, and Past Present Future was still in the .......
72: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A visit to Soundsmith (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-26, 19:48:52 (76.91.197.88)
Interesting visit, nice photos. Think you might've worked in the word 'swarf' here, though. Oh, and, a couple hundred lps stored on .. a window-sill.. ? .......
73: Vinyl Asylum, The "Music Lover's Dream" Holiday Getaway (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-26, 13:05:21 (76.91.197.88)
Put down those Mendelssohn and Schoenberg records for a weekend :::::: .......
74: Vinyl Asylum, what do we know about these.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-25, 16:20:31 (76.91.197.88)
The Kondo Ginga Anyone seen, heard, read, anything ...? This is found in HFT's thread below on turntable-softcore... And who is this Kondo, now that the maestro has passed away ..? ::: T .......
75: Vinyl Asylum, RE: the Vintage Teac project (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-23, 16:31:44 (76.91.197.88)
Looks like a great project, and raw deck looks like it has a more precision parts than the Reko equivalents. One thought; even though this plinth looks very nice..... Wouldn't it make some sense to r .......
76: Vinyl Asylum, "tweak peddlers to give the test data showing what the tweak does" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-22, 19:01:14 (76.91.197.88)
Hold on now .....tweak peddlers supplying test data showing what the tweak does ......?? But wouldn't that take the "magic" out of the whole thing ? I'm certain I speak for many audiophiles when I s .......
77: Vinyl Asylum, portable (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-21, 11:07:58 (76.91.197.88)
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78: Shady Lane, RE: is a "thief" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-20, 20:44:14 (76.91.197.88)
Correct you are. Although you could even forget legalities ... announcing that "X Is A Criminal" on a public site is nearly begging for any or all of the following ...: · extenuating circumstances a .......
79: Vinyl Asylum, Second that, great post. ... nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-20, 13:04:37 (76.91.197.88)
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80: Vinyl Asylum, "must be tough to have to constantly defend" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-20, 11:18:27 (76.91.197.88)
Matt, You mention "It must be tough to have to constantly defend your finely honed point of view." Yeah, guess that might have been true if you weren't repeatedly providing such a great oppurtunity to .......
81: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Breaking the finger lift on Rega (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-20, 10:49:05 (76.91.197.88)
Blunt-force cosmetic damage on something as precise as a tonearm is a no-brainer. I would avoid that arm, as you would a car with front-end damage, a clock that ticked erratically, or a hot-dog with a .......
82: Vinyl Asylum, ever heard a vpi classic ? that might be a factor (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-20, 09:46:21 (76.91.197.88)
Ever heard that "turn key" unit, the Vpi Classic ? That would probably help us evaluate your comparison. Interesting that you would nominate a largely new-and-unheard, relatively inexpensive beltdri .......
83: Vinyl Asylum, RE: a problem nearly solved (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-19, 14:42:43 (76.91.197.88)
I think the subject of arm-chairs is just ripe to be torn open and scathingly critiqued. .......
84: Vinyl Asylum, RE: often a problem nearly solved (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-19, 12:24:34 (76.91.197.88)
Ehm, you seem to want to miss the point. You tried on the go-make-some-of-your-own fallacy, not us. You were posting, outright, if you don't like it, try doing it for yourself. Thanks for revising, s .......
85: Vinyl Asylum, blame well placed is often a problem nearly solved (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-19, 10:47:42 (76.91.197.88)
Somebody's got to put a complete and final end to the 'if all you can do is criticize, try doing the same thing yourself' rejoinder. Since it doesn't work for anyone other than the one feeling the c .......
86: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Recording Engineers & Artistic License ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-19, 10:28:04 (76.91.197.88)
The answer to this, if we would ever get the real story, would no doubt fall under the Necessity being the mother of Invention heading... A grab-bag of common explanations for these kinda things ... i .......
87: Vinyl Asylum, how confused do how many people need to think you are (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-18, 17:33:10 (76.91.197.88)
On the contrary, I think it's telling that thorens sent the turntable with the mushrooms installed, and without calling them an option in the case of skipping problems. Whereas Garrard simply put the .......
88: Vinyl Asylum, RE: here they are (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-18, 11:57:05 (76.91.197.88)
Bitter posts, bitter ideas. You're a bitter guy. .......
89: Vinyl Asylum, RE: here they are (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-18, 10:19:32 (76.91.197.88)
plenty of spare time, there, Mr Bitter... Why not draw up a novel, or no, maybe a big coloring book, of just who it is that you dislike. And why. All the the special moments, all the reasons. Your o .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, here they are (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 21:10:22 (76.91.197.88)
Try on demo-record tracks by Amanda McBroom, Rob Wasserman, Suzanne Cianni and Kitaro , dude. What can I say ? Just all-around neato, and smooth. .......
91: Vinyl Asylum, sorry, lost interest, just seeing you using that atrocious font (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 21:01:52 (76.91.197.88)
But keep up the truly phenomenal effort. Somebody will read this stuff. The audience is listening. Or something. .......
92: Vinyl Asylum, RE: apologies. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 13:46:10 (76.91.197.88)
Glad you're seeing your way clear to 'upgrade' your approach. .......
93: Vinyl Asylum, Mentor...? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 13:25:42 (76.91.197.88)
Some in this thread seem to have mistakenly thought I was referring to myself as mentor. Far, far from the truth. I was nominating, as Mentor, and very much as a joke, ..... someone else, specifically .......
94: Vinyl Asylum, RE: you're so confused (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 11:19:56 (76.91.197.88)
Nice underlining and hotlinking there, must've taken you hours. And let me say that I share and sympathize with your predicament. Here's your answer, taken from poster "J.D"s post over at Vinyl Engine .......
95: Vinyl Asylum, Bitter (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 11:04:25 (76.91.197.88)
Very bitter, but content-free. .......
96: Vinyl Asylum, RE: After (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 11:02:55 (76.91.197.88)
"It's truly not as important as you'd like to try to make it." In a nutshell, an absolutely perfect assessment of both the OP's original post and ALL of yours that have followed. Sorry if my desire t .......
97: Vinyl Asylum, what an outpouring of bile ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-17, 10:38:14 (76.91.197.88)
Nauseating, to be sure. Remind us all again of how this freakout of yours applies to turntables -?-- On second thought don't bother. Think we've all got the picture. .......
98: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Who knew?!! (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 19:11:59 (76.91.197.88)
I honestly think the responsibility may be too overwhelming for you pete. Best to give up in advance and set your sights on a fine new vpi or something without any of the burden. Don't let them put a .......
99: Vinyl Asylum, RE: After the ranting... you are left (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 18:54:01 (76.91.197.88)
I would say that there's a lotta subtext you're missing here. And that you have a lot of questions, too. But that would tend to miss the fact that you are fully tone deaf. Thanks for the interest, th .......
100: Vinyl Asylum, Raven ? okay then, now there's a legend. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 15:53:24 (76.91.197.88)
I think you sound like overwhelmed with Thorens engineering sheer power and bear no doubt that they were genius. Without any exception, really, most turntable enthusiasts regard the Td124 as a class .......
101: Vinyl Asylum, RE: After the ranting... you are left with a Mentor. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 15:52:51 (76.91.197.88)
I was worried at first that you might throw up your hands in dismay at the disarray of opinion here. But now I see there was no reason to be anxious. You have found a place, a perspective, and most o .......
102: Vinyl Asylum, RE: the authenticity argument too far (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 13:11:31 (76.91.197.88)
Agree to some extent. A compliant bushing is a compliant bushing; a grade of lube is a grade of lube, and so on. But change the composition, material, translate to an 'equivalent' of the part, chang .......
103: Vinyl Asylum, You do the work. It's your project pal. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 12:51:41 (76.91.197.88)
Better get busy, it might take you weeks, months, years. Depends on what you're after. But as a true and committed enthusiast, I am sure you're not intimidated by any of that. Right ? Come back in a .......
104: Vinyl Asylum, No, that's not accurate. I know. You have the "huh?" problem. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 11:40:40 (76.91.197.88)
Here's the sentence : "that some real thorens parts are readily available, either Nos or in good serviceable shape, and that some are not so available." If you're disputing that, maybe it's becaus .......
105: Vinyl Asylum, readily available means accessible, obtainable, procurable. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 09:32:03 (76.91.197.88)
Generally the Internet is going to be a good place to start looking. Enthusiasts have been known to scour the net for weeks, months to find parts for units they are restoring. Sometimes the parts are .......
106: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Conflation (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 09:20:59 (76.91.197.88)
Agree. Careful & conservative restoration, using stock parts when possible and resorting to substitutions only after patient back-&-forth testing, makes good sense. Guess my whole position in this t .......
107: Vinyl Asylum, RE: a source for NOS TD124 parts? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 08:55:28 (76.91.197.88)
Obviously you don't need me to tell you that some real thorens parts are readily available, either Nos or in good serviceable shape, and that some are not so available. That's when the option of buyin .......
108: Vinyl Asylum, RE: lower mids & bass thin out (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-16, 00:22:04 (76.91.197.88)
My experience with numerous long-inthe-tooth tele 12ax7s. Physics behind it ? Dunno, but my human-perception angle is that people fondly remember their super-performing teles circa 2-4000 hrs and neg .......
109: Vinyl Asylum, Thorens 124 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 22:50:53 (76.91.197.88)
Point is that Thorens parts were designed and fully tested , by legitimate testing labs. Ebay 'upgrades' ..... crapshoot, testing optional. Thorens 124 tables also have the unique distinction of Fift .......
110: Vinyl Asylum, Tom, would you trade a td124 for "...Today's Interpretation Of A Classic.." ....? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 22:21:38 (76.91.197.88)
Didn't think so. Neither would I. Good try, though, and thanks for the tip on the cocktail. .......
111: Vinyl Asylum, so you're quoting ebay to prove that ebay ...... uhm.. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 22:09:25 (76.91.197.88)
Let me see if I have this straight. You're quoting an Ebay Seller to impart the idea that Thorens privately doubted their own design, but fortunately for everybody, at last Ebay Sellers are jumping in .......
112: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Conflation (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 21:56:54 (76.91.197.88)
Well, that's always the rejoinder --- there is X, Y, Z now --- that the original designers would have loved to use, if they had only existed. I'd say that Bach would've loved a programmable sequencer .......
113: Vinyl Asylum, when teles get too old the lower mids & bass thin out (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 21:35:33 (76.91.197.88)
Tele 12ax7s are often over-appreciated, for a little too long, in the afterglow of their useful lifetime. Just because they will still afford some glimmer of their former selves doesn't mean they sh .......
114: Vinyl Asylum, technical certification from (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 21:19:47 (76.91.197.88)
When the only technical certification comes from a first-time poster, asserting that "the impact is significant" and all-around better..... One wonders. And one doesn't have to be a fanatical vinta .......
115: Vinyl Asylum, shocked, shocked ! (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 21:08:35 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, wow. Fallacies galore, there, but let's let that go. The orig post was all about substituting modern parts, way-different from thorens parts, into thorens designs and declaring that they were i .......
116: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thorens 124 upgrades - impressions (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-15, 19:13:12 (76.91.197.88)
Hard to fathom that all the wisdom and accumulated experience represented by the Thorens engineering staff would be so easily contravened by the genius of insightful Ebay Entrepreneurs redesigning via .......
117: Vinyl Asylum, gotta say (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-13, 14:19:38 (76.91.197.88)
Gotta say that I've never read a post quite like that one. Maybe you could post a special-edition version of this mishmash, where you un-explain the fallacious explanations and replace the missing co .......
118: Vinyl Asylum, RE: just a thought on comparison & evaluation posts..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 22:19:28 (76.91.197.88)
If logic were that constraining and tight, no random wildassed internet post could ever see the light of day. But I'm a real Bozzo. J.D. .......
119: Vinyl Asylum, RE: SME 3009 Versions (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 17:37:00 (76.91.197.88)
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120: Vinyl Asylum, RE: one's true purpose (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 17:33:48 (76.91.197.88)
Here in the conflagration of all the magic-erasers vs edge-drive-wheelies vs home-depot-record-mats vs cable-riser-towers vs zerostat-blasters vs clamp-or-weight vs my-deaddog-listening-buddy , t .......
121: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Bottlehead Seduction (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 16:43:45 (76.91.197.88)
Let it come up to 'heat' for a couple minutes, like three or four, and start playing music. Later you should likely hear a difference in about 20 to 30 minutes when it stabilizes. Re power I suggest .......
122: Vinyl Asylum, I'm reading between the lines. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 16:28:41 (76.91.197.88)
"No shit, I'm serious as a heart-attack, Timmy. Someday you're gonna be totally stoked that you're in this picture. And that it's available on the internet to anybody, for any purpose whatsoever. .......
123: Vinyl Asylum, Non importa, quando chiedono, rispondo sempre, il Bozzo, mi č! (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 16:24:26 (76.91.197.88)
However. At some point. It would be expected that everyone who stays with it long enough begins to realize why they are here. Once that is in front of the brain, one can find a perspective that .......
124: Vinyl Asylum, RE: WTF (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 13:39:00 (76.91.197.88)
Sorry, we didn't all sign up for the "Take A Hike" asylum. That kind of embrace of diverse opinion is .. your own little invention. And that's the Beauty of it, really. Tell us about some of your hi .......
125: Vinyl Asylum, Plinthing (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 13:35:45 (76.91.197.88)
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126: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Well, a couple of points (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 12:32:21 (76.91.197.88)
Just to be accurate, that was only one point. But agree, although on the way to a bigger, overall, disagree. Each and every part of the rega table, with the great exception of the mono-cast armtube el .......
127: Vinyl Asylum, what, you and your equipment ..? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 11:54:36 (76.91.197.88)
Eek. That is pretty deviant. Reminds me to watch out for your stuff in future on audiogon. .......
128: Vinyl Asylum, .. Ich Bin Ein Bozzo .... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 11:43:23 (76.91.197.88)
See link, circus fans. .......
129: Vinyl Asylum, just a thought on comparison & evaluation posts..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-12, 11:18:02 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe ------- the reason that people who have real audiophile inclinations incline toward Lp Playback is that : First, the sound is better, and many hardcore audio veterans agree. Second, the medium .......
130: Vinyl Asylum, RE: dead wax data (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-11, 10:47:21 (76.91.197.88)
The sticking point is " all the dead wax codes" .... There is no such comprehensive compendium, and probably won't be, if pro record collectors have any influence. That would make the whole thing .......
131: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Alto High Fidelity label - (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-11, 10:36:28 (76.91.197.88)
Perhaps you could photo & post the logo / label ? .......
132: Vinyl Asylum, nice one (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-08, 19:10:16 (76.91.197.88)
We should have an Lp-bag exhibition here at some point. I'm thinking lots of us have more than a few spare attention-grabbers in the vault.... .......
133: Vinyl Asylum, as usual, you'd best ask frank schroeder. ... /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-08, 17:38:01 (76.91.197.88)
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134: Vinyl Asylum, travelling bags (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-08, 17:18:52 (76.91.197.88)
Just three shopping bags that have come thru here in the last month or so. My own travels covered the LA & Princeton shops, the Berlin one arrived, containing gifts, with a friend. The LP is not de .......
135: Vinyl Asylum, thnx for informative post (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-08, 11:12:16 (76.91.197.88)
Btw, What do we know about this "Recording The Beatles" book ? Is it published yet, worth a look, etc ? .......
136: Vinyl Asylum, Didn't Frank Schroeder also say that he may prefer marmalade to blackberry jam ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-08, 08:25:35 (76.91.197.88)
I think I heard that he did. I certainly hope he makes more pronouncements soon, cause I don't know how to think for myself. .......
137: Vinyl Asylum, RE: rock lyric...... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-06, 13:03:24 (76.91.197.88)
I'd stumble into town Just like some sacred cow Visions of swastikas in my head And plans for everyone It's in the white of my eyes My little China Girl You shouldn't mess with me I'll ruin everyth .......
138: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Jesus died for somebody's sins.. But not mine. ... emphatic second on that ./nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-06, 12:54:47 (76.91.197.88)
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139: Vinyl Asylum, RE: mixed bag (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-07-06, 10:47:50 (76.91.197.88)
Agree, a real crap-shoot in track to track quality. So nearly impossible to get perfectionist about, even though the musical content is at it's pinnacle and everyone wants this to be it's best soundin .......
140: Vinyl Asylum, wuss (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-27, 20:00:26 (72.94.87.151)
Come on. If you're a studio rat you know that like the French know cheese-eating, surrendering, and monkeys. Real records were contemplated with twenty or forty Rothmans or Dunhills, and that's what .......
141: Vinyl Asylum, if you see a ferris wheel (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-23, 20:37:45 (76.91.197.88)
If you're seeing a ferris wheel there, that's even weirder than strobe marks on a merry-go-round . Try a 90° re-orientation of your... head..? Pretty sure this is one of those 'frequency synchronous' .......
142: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard purists want to know ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-23, 19:46:09 (76.91.197.88)
I'm convinced there's a way to use THREE turntables in one, convenient, supremely ergonomic "system" approach. Maybe a Beltdrive and an Idler drive on the far ends --- propelling a neutral platte .......
143: Vinyl Asylum, Methinks you haven't spent untold beguiling hours at SeaCliff ........ (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-23, 14:54:30 (76.91.197.88)
OUR MAN IN SEACLIFF, center Vintage, how-to and diy .... won't directly generate any ad dollars... Now just hold the phone, you who are on The Journey. Nay, say I, dynamic walking-back-the-cat .......
144: Vinyl Asylum, Neither ........ /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-23, 09:47:50 (76.91.197.88)
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145: Vinyl Asylum, RE: if that were true...... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-21, 17:49:06 (76.91.197.88)
Think you want to think of it in terms of 'origin' and 'transmission'. Motor pulley is the origin of rotation and dictates speed. Idler transmits. Hope this isn't some kind of slippery slope but tha .......
146: Vinyl Asylum, RE: It might not sound like it would help (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-21, 17:43:22 (76.91.197.88)
Zip cord is generally AWG #18 gauge, and carries approx 2 amps and change at standard line voltage of 117 volts. That's over 200 watts of ampacity. Occasionally, people refer to AWG #20 as zip-cord, t .......
147: Vinyl Asylum, RE: it might first appear (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-21, 14:24:37 (76.91.197.88)
"This isn't as bad a design as it might first appear. If you position the rest carefully, you can have it so that it acts as a guide so that the stylus can never slip off the edge of the record." Righ .......
148: Vinyl Asylum, RE: SME armrest (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-21, 10:45:12 (76.91.197.88)
Amazing bit of ergonomics, isn't it ? At least on the Series One there was no way to turn it around. Yours looks series II. All I can think of is that there was very recent Austerity in the air in .......
149: Vinyl Asylum, RE: see the new Teres tonearm? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-20, 23:14:13 (76.91.197.88)
More specifics, though pretty much not too specific : Bearing The Illius Tri-pivot bearing design provides superb stability in all axis with extraordinarily low friction. Sapphire jewels are used in .......
150: Vinyl Asylum, cartridge mods (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-20, 20:32:15 (76.91.197.88)
Since there are little cottage industries out there modding the Denon DL-103, adding weight, a rigid housing, and locking the mechanics into the new housing with some kind of damping compound... I .......
151: Vinyl Asylum, .... and a variation (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-20, 12:49:11 (76.91.197.88)
If you wanted to make this closer to standard condition, I would think that SME would have some of the parts-- the long bolts, at least--- since they were used on Series I, II, and R arms. So you mig .......
152: Vinyl Asylum, RE: btw, what do you guys think of this? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-20, 10:21:23 (76.91.197.88)
This isn't great; multiple connections, doubtful shielding, etc. Rather than list everything that's not so great about it, let's start again. Since you will want to use the screening can as it is inte .......
153: Vinyl Asylum, thanks so much. sure you wouldn't care for a wafer-thin washer ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-19, 15:53:24 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks again. I think that now, we can all settle down & "knock ourselves off" ---and that will be that. What's really funny here is that I think if I "sketched" the benefit-- - of having the opti .......
154: Vinyl Asylum, "slightly tapering the edge of the washer down to the platter" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-19, 13:29:44 (76.91.197.88)
"slightly tapering the edge of the washer down to the platter....." Agree. And that's the way I did them. If you're already going to the effort of grinding down the washers so you have thinner option .......
155: Vinyl Asylum, thanks for a full response (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-19, 13:22:29 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for the full response provided. Your own, personal understanding of "platter contact" is now available to any future reader who might be interested. My own personal favorite part of your respo .......
156: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Dear Abby, I adore (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 20:55:24 (76.91.197.88)
Here you go. Couple of foolproof stealthy diversions. Speak with signif other and find out exact date of purchase. Call up Bed, Bath & Beyonce and find out the very last day you can return this abom .......
157: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Stresses and strains (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 20:43:23 (76.91.197.88)
What about the bit concerning a hard clamp-down 'tuning up' the resonant properties of the record..? Non-laboratory-grade evidence --- ie, when you tap the record -- shows that a non-clamped record .......
158: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thickness of washer (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 16:42:31 (76.91.197.88)
Agree. Additionally, when you say : if pressure is force over area and the record is required to withstand a 2 or 3 mm height difference between the centre of the record and the clamp point (5 or 6 c .......
159: Vinyl Asylum, phonograph of the day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 14:17:29 (76.91.197.88)
Cover from U-Ziq aka Michael Paradinas .......
160: Vinyl Asylum, how about you sketching it and disproving it (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 13:32:58 (76.91.197.88)
You've made no case. And your second point " if you think that you can hear the difference "... Well, yeah, I'm saying I can hear the difference. And I can hear the difference in a lot of things that .......
161: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thickness of washer... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 13:02:03 (76.91.197.88)
Right. But it's not black and white. Thicker is not always better. Washer use is helpful in some clamping situations. Thick washer is helpful in some situations; thin washer more helpful in others. I .......
162: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thickness of washer... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 12:30:30 (76.91.197.88)
Simple matter to grind down a (what are they, neoprene..?) compliant spindle-washer for the clamping procedure. Different label-area thicknesses, different kinds of warp can use thicker or thinner var .......
163: Vinyl Asylum, I Buried Paul (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 10:24:17 (76.91.197.88)
This is the best TWEAK for phonographic replay I've seen on Vinyl Asylum in years. I can see "Reverser Parties" springing up all over the country-- any costumes, any socializing, any dance--- do w .......
164: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Loricraft Garrard 301 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-18, 10:03:58 (76.91.197.88)
The Rigidity versus Lower Distortion discussion is hard to assess, really, since the Lower Distortion advocates have actual data --- approx 28% lower tracking error with twelve inch arms. Whereas the .......
165: Vinyl Asylum, RE: wood for plinth (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-17, 19:08:26 (76.91.197.88)
Matter of conviction. Will this be one try at a plinth that may turn out to be version 1.o and be changed out thereafter for a further design approach ? Do you think you'll do justice to the expenditu .......
166: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Loricraft Garrard 301 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-17, 07:33:56 (76.91.197.88)
Very nice restoration; underside of deck appears more pristine than when stock. Good to hear your conclusion that it's very quiet & resolving. As compared to thorens 124s that is very complimentary. G .......
167: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I think that's an outer ring (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-16, 20:59:28 (76.91.197.88)
Rest in peace, Goldeneye. Hard to believe it, but that frisky, non-stop blur of activity in the listening room will grace our sessions there ... no more. How fast he grew, in so short a time.... A r .......
168: Vinyl Asylum, at last a record clamp that really covers.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-16, 14:43:36 (76.91.197.88)
Zero out your problems with inadequate platter contact or occasional warp. This fully comprehensive Record Clamp covers entire surface of a standard Lp. Without doubt, this is the most truly audioph .......
169: Vinyl Asylum, Looks Great. .../.. nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-15, 22:08:24 (76.91.197.88)
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170: Vinyl Asylum, RE: short term impression (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-15, 22:06:41 (76.91.197.88)
Don't for a second imagine that I was trying to downplay the benefits and advantages of idlers. I was trying to thread the needle on the differences between drives, and I suspect that you're quite as .......
171: Vinyl Asylum, RE: idler wheel TTs and bass response (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-15, 14:22:49 (76.91.197.88)
My completely subjective impression here is that two phenomena are happening at once. And overall, no, it doesn't necessarily seem as if bass response is better or deeper on an idler-drive per se . Bu .......
172: Vinyl Asylum, RE: SME 3009 Series II (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-14, 14:50:08 (76.91.197.88)
No, the only way to damage the arm or it's knife-edge bearing would be to misuse it, grind the elements together with force that isn't required. The knife-edge bearing is a gravity fitting, and thus .......
173: Vinyl Asylum, Esoterica on the menu (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-14, 14:40:57 (76.91.197.88)
Clive Meakins reviews a round of London Decca cartridges, supported by the TransFi lateral tracking arm on the Garrard 301. Worth a look. .......
174: Vinyl Asylum, RE: rather than vintage vs new (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-13, 11:55:35 (76.91.197.88)
[currently running Ortofon-Spu/koetsu-black> Sme-3012r> Garrard-301/1> Lux-phonopre> Airtight-kt88 poweramp> AcousticEnergy AE2 spkrs. Lux tube preamp is heavily updated and both pre/power now have t .......
175: Vinyl Asylum, rather than vintage vs new, should it be smart vs not-very ... /..long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-12, 15:43:36 (76.91.197.88)
Thinking about the posts below re Going Vintage. Understand that a main system is seen as the everyday music machine and vintage is for branching out. I have a slightly different spin, which has a lot .......
176: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Gone Vintage (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-12, 14:34:04 (76.91.197.88)
One observation : "afford the new stuff" is a loaded term. I can't afford to give the industry even more time... Time to fix the ridiculous ideas of solidstate with massive negative feedback for musi .......
177: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I don't get it. Where is the 'wading' that's required to (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 12:58:06 (76.91.197.88)
I find, personally, that "worthy of a thread" is an option-only choice here. And, now that I think about it, a little creepy as well. housepet in a box © .......
178: Vinyl Asylum, that IS creepy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 12:55:33 (76.91.197.88)
And it deserves to be on the Internet, home of all things creepy. But, you know, it's not quite as creepy as this : And where did I find this particular creepy thing ? No surprise there, I found .......
179: Vinyl Asylum, I don't know. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 12:32:23 (76.91.197.88)
Isn't it outright freaky to see that reply on this board ? Honestly, I just don't know. Grado dudes will, probably. housepet in a box © .......
180: Vinyl Asylum, I say the Internet is creepy and you've got a right to be creeped out. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 12:28:21 (76.91.197.88)
By anything, anywhere, anytime. Wasn't that a Beastie Boys lyric ? They creep me out. housepet in a box © .......
181: Vinyl Asylum, star, class act, &.. swings hard (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 12:25:24 (76.91.197.88)
An interesting recording of Mr C is the George Shearing one-- this is really vivid sounding on a good pressing. As noted downthread, the better music came in the early Trio years, at least to my taste .......
182: Vinyl Asylum, just finished (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 11:04:21 (76.91.197.88)
Hi, I just finished re-cleaning all my records again with the new Spray & Wipe (olly is a great guy) solution I got from another inmate here; ..hope this sounds better on either of my Soundsmith-reti .......
183: Vinyl Asylum, cap loading (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-10, 09:25:49 (76.91.197.88)
John's right; it is the prevailing wisdom in things phono that "Mc cartridges are immune to capacitance load". However, and we've been thru this one before, people who have phonostages that provide .......
184: Vinyl Asylum, A small pitch for the best Reggae compendium I've seen (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 21:44:49 (76.91.197.88)
The Rough Guide to Reggae. Simply put the best guide to a difficult collector's (dodgy because of pressings JA) considerations. Great photos, good research; twenty bucks and it even lists Vinyl avai .......
185: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Cables for analogue (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 21:03:38 (76.91.197.88)
It's actually pretty important, between turntable Out and phonostage In. There are some significant parameters, capacitance and resistance, shielding and etc that really, really influence sound perfor .......
186: Vinyl Asylum, RE: SME 3009 tonearm wiring repair (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 17:45:35 (76.91.197.88)
These are very simple arms on which to repair wiring. If you're reasonably adept with fiddly small mechanics (as in tonearms) and can use a Dmm & solder, you could repair in an hour or two with a bit .......
187: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Why Not Titanium? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 11:35:02 (76.91.197.88)
I hate to get involved here, especially since I have next to no experience with td124 tables, but here are my candidates for titanium rationale ...: Deflects projectiles arriving at most angles witho .......
188: Vinyl Asylum, Takes another angry, bitter, dead-ender to recognize that. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 11:06:02 (76.91.197.88)
I think you may be ready for another round of Audiophile Extreme Challenge !! Whaddya say ? Just send a self-addressed, stamped, email to : anger~mail @ brutally_dismissive.org for your lucky chan .......
189: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Sounds more like a fail in your defense of it. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-09, 10:12:02 (76.91.197.88)
I just love these "sounds like you never got over it" sort of rejoinders. This is like one of those reality-tv shows .... Picture the following, narrated in the golfcourse-baritone-whisper beloved of .......
190: Vinyl Asylum, ..although.. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-08, 19:28:12 (76.91.197.88)
This one : " Salt City Six: Dixieland Audiophile AP-80" sounds like it would be off the hook. Nothing like audiophile dixie music from the mormon capital. Bangin'. housepet in a box © ::: .......
191: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Aren't you collecting records from TAS ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-08, 19:23:03 (76.91.197.88)
Okay, Mr Smartguy, but I want you to know you'll be missing Don't-Miss titles like these : Bachrach: Casino Royale Colgems COSO-5005 Balaika Favorites Mercury SR-90310 (Also Classic) Ralph Hunter Cho .......
192: Vinyl Asylum, RE: This [real, tested, component ] blows, compared to my experiment. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-08, 14:06:19 (76.91.197.88)
Just wait for the next wave of Home Stylus Retipping , with silicon nitride tips. housepet in a box © .......
193: Vinyl Asylum, Yes. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-08, 13:40:00 (76.91.197.88)
Always . Sometimes (used ones that look like they need it at first) elaborately, but always adequately, before each play.* If the used ones need a few repetitions, they wait in a stack till someone h .......
194: Vinyl Asylum, No. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-08, 11:03:34 (76.91.197.88)
Definitely, 100% not. housepet in a box © .......
195: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "one of the more sane inmates in this asylum" .. and honest. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-07, 17:25:04 (76.91.197.88)
And, along with me, I'll bet you're not the only inmate in this thread with no experience with the Manley Steelhead. You're just willing to admit it. Funny place the internet; people can say virtuall .......
196: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I wonder if it would hold true if your CineMag didn't have (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-07, 12:45:55 (76.91.197.88)
Interesting observation, Henry. I remember doing my own MC Stepup Transformer effort, and it sounded maybe a little 'blocked-up'. There's a little photo-reminder of that project just below, and I've .......
197: Vinyl Asylum, no, you're just not *wordy*.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-07, 11:35:23 (76.91.197.88)
Hey, I was just letting the rant-o-saurus off the chain for a little weekend excercise. And I did try and use disclaimer, excluder and de-tangler phrases to indicate that it wasn't all about your pos .......
198: Vinyl Asylum, "there was no link on the AudioGon listing " (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-06, 18:14:52 (76.91.197.88)
Well, there was this on the audiogon listing, and I find it spectacularly fishy--- fishing-boat hold in the june florida sun fishy--- that somebody who had bought four custom stepup transformers from .......
199: Vinyl Asylum, Never Say Never, Or Dextromethorphan (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-06, 15:06:22 (76.91.197.88)
Just cause Dextromethorphan is hard to say at all. Though that's off the point. But, come on. Let's not marry the idea of using a brilliant and neglected technology like Lp Playback, last truly viable .......
200: Vinyl Asylum, cinemags for each cartridge (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-06, 11:11:02 (76.91.197.88)
Since you have a Bobs Stepup Transformer for each of four cartridges, I just wondered ---- did you have Bob keep the switching for gain, ground-lift, etc on your custom Sut units, or just hard wire th .......
201: Vinyl Asylum, RE: J.D.'s forum thread replies- warning. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 19:59:06 (76.91.197.88)
I see you've decided to change your mind on the retroactively reverse-positive spin that the replies are having on the assertions. I'll just say that I've willingly done some involuntary rethinking o .......
202: Vinyl Asylum, RE: This looks like a pretty good deal... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 14:58:43 (76.91.197.88)
Why not go straight to digital and avoid all the work ? housepet in a box © .......
203: Vinyl Asylum, RE: This looks like a pretty good deal... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 14:53:18 (76.91.197.88)
I think you should just purchase the DL103R and "PatOMalley" it. Probably amounts to the same thing. Does this entry earn me a Dynavector or something ? housepet in a box © .......
204: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What's with all the question marks around here ?????? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 14:51:37 (76.91.197.88)
Do we all need to 'sell' our posts with used-car-lot subject headers ??? I think it was a well designed original post, humorous, selfless, thrifty, etc. A regular god-damned boy-scout of a post. A b .......
205: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Pics: Trans-Fi Terminator (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 14:40:38 (76.91.197.88)
Beautiful arm, it will be interesting to hear your evaluation. One thing unforgivably tragic about it, though. If I used that arm on my table I'd always have to think of California's ridiculous gover .......
206: Vinyl Asylum, "don't believe that analogue replay is automatically better than digital playback" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 10:23:41 (76.91.197.88)
Interesting, I have to agree that there's nothing that says that "analogue replay is automatically better than digital playback". It's the recording that's the problem. One version stores the full sou .......
207: Vinyl Asylum, shrink warp (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-04, 10:12:58 (76.91.197.88)
Urban myth it may also be, but it seems to happen a lot. Maybe it's an unrelated cause and effect thing -- a record that is still in the shrink very often means it's been living in various warp-likely .......
208: Vinyl Asylum, jazz by instrument ........ thanks for replies (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-03, 19:15:28 (76.91.197.88)
Interesting replies all. As a result, I'm aspiring to a software database for recordings. But until then, I will say I don't mind the current arrangement, as someone put it, 'pulling & filing as one .......
209: Digital Drive, arcam Fmj Cd17 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-03, 11:19:00 (76.91.197.88)
Anyone using this reasonbly priced new arcam ? Is this a good generation of Fmj's to invest in ? housepet in a box © .......
210: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Why not just file by artist's name (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-02, 19:40:00 (76.91.197.88)
There is certainly a kind of credibility that comes with seeing a record collector who can calmly shelve his Songs For Distingué Lovers right next to his Ordo Virtutum because Hildegard of Bingen and .......
211: Vinyl Asylum, *Note, your typos have been corrected. 8^) (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-02, 17:15:46 (76.91.197.88)
joke, right ? watt typos where you reefering two ? housepet in a box © .......
212: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Why not just file by artist's name (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-02, 17:14:12 (76.91.197.88)
Well, that would be too easy, and too Un-Jazzy. That sounds too much like the serious-minded dweebs in the cabinets just down the row containing the Classical. My system is Classical in classically c .......
213: Vinyl Asylum, your own Frank Lloyd Wright (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-02, 16:58:58 (76.91.197.88)
Your Frank Lloyd Wright does look like it's a Super Structure. I think he did yours right after "Falling Water House" and alienated all the clients, contractors and moneymen. In the desperate hours, .......
214: Vinyl Asylum, classical by composer, but in Jazz, how about -- by instrument ..? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-06-02, 16:45:21 (76.91.197.88)
So I've got it all worked out. Someday they'll have jazz records and we'll have a song on EACH AND EVERY goddamned one. (Okay, it's Lp Filing Techniques. Tune out here if you don't dig these dis .......
215: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Tape-Drive VPI (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-31, 09:49:36 (76.91.197.88)
Well nothing marks out the softer side of the hard-charging, hair-shirt audiophiler like a nice little display of figurine fantasy. For comparison, just think of what that does, on a larger scale, .......
216: Vinyl Asylum, Garrard Of The Day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-30, 14:13:39 (76.91.197.88)
Shindo everything... analog-tube audio the way nature intended. And those Latour fieldcoil speakers lurking somewhere just offscreen.... housepet in a box © .......
217: Vinyl Asylum, RE: quality of the plywood (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-30, 12:04:28 (76.91.197.88)
Yes, worked with both, and would second the info above. Proper baltic birch is not just denser, it's heavier and nicer to work with. Agree with advice above to source from hardwoods shop-- the real s .......
218: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Nice. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-30, 10:29:06 (76.91.197.88)
I'm a big fan of Kimura-san too. Veteran of the asian electron-wars and comes into his own in the 90's with a fresh look at everything. Given his credentials, probably the most progressive designer in .......
219: Vinyl Asylum, should add - (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-29, 14:28:24 (76.91.197.88)
Should add, re the yorke design, that despite it's quietly voluptuous shape in my eyes, there is going to be someone else with perfectly valid tastes who can't stand the sight of it. Oh, the humanity. .......
220: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Valid points all.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-29, 14:03:47 (76.91.197.88)
Humorous & perceptive post; I made audible, distinct snork ing sounds at certain points while reading. What's funny (too) about all this is that we all no doubt have certain very specific buttons and .......
221: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard pic for Friday (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-29, 12:00:23 (76.91.197.88)
As an overall guide to civil discussion of members Diy efforts, I agree, with certain.... waivers. A miracle project, of hightech laser guided Cnc cutting, doesn't need restraint in the comments sect .......
222: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard pic for Friday (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-29, 10:08:09 (76.91.197.88)
Just a wildly expressionist, mad Iberian Gaudi devotee. Long way from the studious boffins of garrard ltd. in rainy inkland. housepet in a box © .......
223: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Tx linearising (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 14:18:15 (76.91.197.88)
MK Looked around and really can't say I've hit the exact source. Perhaps it wasn't Dudley at all that I was recalling, but Peter Qvortrup, of Audionote Uk, talking about transformers into gainstages i .......
224: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Time Up (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 11:55:19 (76.91.197.88)
My very civil request for clarification yesterday was met, by you, with a great big blank. Interestingly, though, you had time to post elsewhere in thread that I was mistaken. Now you'd like a discuss .......
225: Vinyl Asylum, prolonging this (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 11:36:19 (76.91.197.88)
Your approach here gives me great incentive not to continue. Next time try less belligerent wording. You have the last word since I'm done. housepet in a box © .......
226: Vinyl Asylum, RE: doesn't seem too mysterious (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 10:58:12 (76.91.197.88)
Since this is trending (below) into the contentious, I'll say that the better (and coincidentally) more expensive MC Stepups that I've heard are from Ear, AudioNote, and from Tamura, which are what I .......
227: Vinyl Asylum, The Minute's Up (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 10:04:49 (76.91.197.88)
It's not a "mistake" to use cost as a factor in this discussion. Obviously, then, this isn't meant to be a discussion, but an unsubstantiated vote for cheap stepups being equal to expensive others. Fi .......
228: Vinyl Asylum, Wait a minute & then get to the point (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-27, 09:41:37 (76.91.197.88)
Relevant questions would be whether more expensive transformers perform better than cheap ones, whether a comparison using MM straight-in versus MC + Stepups + Loading is really a relevant comparison .......
229: Vinyl Asylum, which MMs ..? ....... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-26, 20:18:46 (76.91.197.88)
What MM cartridges are you referring to.. ? And into which phonostage ? Additionally-- "Never have I noticed any veiling" ---what transformers are you comparing -- the lundahls against ? .......
230: Vinyl Asylum, correct you are, sir (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-26, 20:18:20 (76.91.197.88)
Well, when at first I began to realize that I could 'reorient' my unlinearized transformers, I used a precision prybar, and jacked open the casings. When you got Tweeker chops, you don't need instr .......
231: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Tx linearising load (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-26, 18:12:15 (76.91.197.88)
Hi MK That comes from an old article in Listener magazine by Art Dudley, if I recall correctly. Electronic design research in that vein I don't originate on my own, that's for sure. I'll look it up .......
232: Vinyl Asylum, this doesn't seem too mysterious (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-26, 16:59:25 (76.91.197.88)
Lundahl transformers are respected for their quality and reasonable cost. A standard single trannie runs $78, a pair double that. At $150 the pair, these are certainly at or near the bottom (with cin .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, the infamous famous blue raincoat (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-26, 10:54:47 (76.91.197.88)
Here's a opinion that's contrary to the adulation below. There are two levels to any discussion of this record.... One, The Sound. Startlingly vivid and hyper-real sounding, the recording team obvious .......
234: Vinyl Asylum, How I Optimized A Tonearm .../long post + pix (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-20, 15:02:48 (76.91.197.88)
Well, there I was, in the listening room of an Audio Buddy the other day. I was listening to my minty first-pressing of Hasten Down The Wind , and I thought I noticed some veiling in the upper midrang .......
235: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Going nuts... what IS the mounting dist. for an SME 3009 Series II ?! Found like 5 different ones already!(nt) (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-19, 15:28:17 (76.91.197.88)
Recommend you check the actual SME documents avail from either Holger Trass's site or Vinyl Engine downloads. Don't rely on "database" specs, which are sometimes supplied from erroneous sources. Have .......
236: Vinyl Asylum, RE: L.A. now has a BBQ restaurant (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-19, 15:15:11 (76.91.197.88)
If it's anything like the Westside's Bookstore / Gallery / Performance Space That Sells Vinyl On The Side , called 'Equator Books & Vinyl' ....... well, at least yours has the barbecue. Perhaps you .......
237: Vinyl Asylum, the air quality .. ........ is the reason to keep this open (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-18, 13:53:23 (76.91.197.88)
What you suggest is the internet equivalent of a Gated Community. The air quality here is already stiflingly stuffy at times. You would like to close down a few extra ventilation points ? Time to isol .......
238: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: about baffles .......... thanks and a followup .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-17, 18:32:45 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks to all for such well articulated points. Just a quick followup question--- Suppose I were to solve my 'don't-block-the-view' problem with baffles that were wide and low and deep ...... ie mou .......
239: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Did you ever read the Atlantic Monthly article about So Central PA? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-16, 13:54:07 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for link; read that years ago and I'm printing for another round. When I went to college in Huntingdon county in early seventies, virtually any question I asked in town would be answered first .......
240: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, some basics about baffles, please ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-16, 13:37:06 (76.91.197.88)
Hi Just the one question about speaker-cabinet front baffles, but some background, first. I'm very slowly circling in on building single-driver speakers, something structured very simply from the star .......
241: Vinyl Asylum, RE: can't find Jazz (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-16, 10:27:40 (76.91.197.88)
Having lived just up the road from your area for a few years, I think you must know the answer already. To be as diplomatic as possible, if you look & listen around central pennsylvania, you might fin .......
242: Vinyl Asylum, RE: where's the fun? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-12, 09:40:23 (76.91.197.88)
Uhm, that would be a couple of lines below: http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/83/832568.html where I mention having fun . You should probably read thru the thread before posting. And abo .......
243: Vinyl Asylum, RE: long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-11, 15:24:26 (76.91.197.88)
The empire motor from pabst falls under the ac synchronous category, more specifically ac-sync-hysteresis. This is the category, ac-sync, which generally moves belt drive turntables. As opposed to th .......
244: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thorens (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-10, 14:40:00 (76.91.197.88)
Now I've been there I see your process. Thanks. And as mentioned, agree with the unfinished / unoiled look of the plinth. I'd also say that the scope of your project here might very well merit it's ow .......
245: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Thorens (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-10, 13:43:46 (76.91.197.88)
Beautiful. Not unlike the way a classic hardwood surround plinth added some natural contrast to the machined contours of the deck, the slate has that beautiful assymetrical grain that just works. Also .......
246: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Lyra Erodion (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-09, 13:46:46 (76.91.197.88)
I'd be interested to know more about this too. Have to check out the HF+ article, thanks. Worth mentioning that the manual for this transformer, which is worth a look, is avail at vinyl engine. .......
247: Vinyl Asylum, Manley cutting lathe (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-09, 08:59:03 (76.91.197.88)
A swarf-sucking monster. housepet in a box © .......
248: Vinyl Asylum, long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-08, 10:26:50 (76.91.197.88)
Guess speechless because--- the Empire's motor is engineered to turn a well-lubed and free-spinning heavy platter against as little resitance as possible, and the Garrard's platter/bearing is designed .......
249: Vinyl Asylum, RE: No, no, no . . . is right (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-08, 09:41:03 (76.91.197.88)
Agree with your nyet vote. In fact, in my slow-learner experience, I've actually found butcher block to be the wrong answer under numerous tables. It's odd, because it really does seem like it would .......
250: Vinyl Asylum, speechless (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-07, 14:20:28 (76.91.197.88)
Really. housepet in a box © .......
251: Vinyl Asylum, records & consensual cleaning (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-05, 19:51:07 (76.91.197.88)
We don't go there. Never have never will. Don't ask, don't tell. housepet in a box © .......
252: Vinyl Asylum, RE: ".... I hear claves..." (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-04, 18:00:43 (76.91.197.88)
I see stacked Cuban heels. For some reason it's no difficult leap to picture HP at the La Tropicana, floral-print shirt unbuttoned a few too many... ... leaning back, enjoying Mojito & Cohiba --- whil .......
253: Vinyl Asylum, stupendous (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-04, 17:37:55 (76.91.197.88)
Really beautiful work there. Can you tell us a little more about what's going on to the right side of the table, with the varying levers and levels and platforms ? Presuming it's a lateral arm, over t .......
254: Vinyl Asylum, RE: VPI flywheel question. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-04, 13:37:44 (76.91.197.88)
First, are you in North America, with the 120v/60hz mains ? housepet in a box © .......
255: Vinyl Asylum, double check (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-04, 13:20:40 (76.91.197.88)
Late in life, Poulenc visited La Tropicana in old Havana, and he was moved to compose one of his most unusual pieces, hybridizing the Stations Of The Cross with traditional Afro-Cuban rhythmic meter. .......
256: Vinyl Asylum, agree (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-05-03, 19:22:08 (76.91.197.88)
If you're in it for the long run, you really can't logically say no to anything, right off the bat. There's just way too much chance of something nobody noticed, or something you didn't even know abou .......
257: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Not using a preamp (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-28, 11:14:06 (76.91.197.88)
Question--- isn't using a Transformer Volume Control, like the Prometheus you list on your system, almost a preamp-free approach, (in terms of shorter signal path, fewer intervening components, no 'ac .......
258: Vinyl Asylum, misfire (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-27, 10:03:08 (76.91.197.88)
Hi You posted : "Great post, quite funny!" Yes, very droll. PM has a deft way with light, humorous posts. And then you added : "I am glad you managed to nail down perfect design for a perfect turnta .......
259: Vinyl Asylum, ask marilyn ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-27, 09:51:54 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for bringing this gifted Marilyn woman to our attention. I'd say she credibly joins the ranks of Judge Judy, Doctor Phil, & other American Greats. I vote we nominate her the first honorary "Vi .......
260: Vinyl Asylum, RE: HeavyLite.. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-25, 18:38:40 (76.91.197.88)
Sure, sure, like I just told ya kid, Concepts--! when they're dead, you're done !! And now for the new, Acrylic-Futurism-Begone !! emphasis on on-board motors and walnut plinth surrounds......... .......
261: Vinyl Asylum, RE: My new Mono system and first LP (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-25, 16:06:52 (76.91.197.88)
Nice system ! Too obvious to suggest a wallshelf for turntable ? Then you could float it directly above one of the other components ..... and table's footprint could be large or small as you want.. .......
262: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "....man-made slate...." (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-24, 21:05:10 (76.91.197.88)
Pretty sure that's a new synthetic called HeavyLite © . Hope this helps. housepet in a box © .......
263: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "....man-made slate...." (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-24, 18:28:53 (76.91.197.88)
....no offense given / taken / intended -- unless of course you are john elison, who was being obviously provocative with his post.......... ((With which we're all familiar (eg 'digitized lps are iden .......
264: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "....man-made slate...." (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-24, 16:38:34 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, there's probably nothing exceptional about a multilayer lithic material formed by millions of years of geological action and millions & millions of tons of volcanic pressure, uniformly dense but .......
265: Vinyl Asylum, Thorens pic of the day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-23, 13:51:46 (76.91.197.88)
Continuing the restoration at User 510's Analog Department. Interesting, methodical pages for every Thorens & Idlerdrive fan... housepet in a box © .......
266: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Think thicker, but think, first. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-22, 11:35:53 (76.91.197.88)
Two phonostages, one tube the other steelystate. An aries, a garrard 3o1 in the wings, twelve-inch arms. Me too. Until I played 'which one of these doesn't go with the others'.... Spoiler alert: kept .......
267: Vinyl Asylum, Ad Hominems from Harry... nothing new here.../nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-22, 08:50:54 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
268: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Backward thinking... Maybe (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-21, 19:25:19 (76.91.197.88)
Let's not even go into the Not Standing Alone Motor Assembly; keep this up and pretty soon you'll have a Dual. But that might not be bad. What I'd question is the foam-core doublesided tape. Driving t .......
269: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I foresee the next model .......... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-21, 18:41:12 (76.91.197.88)
And then rotating Cylinder players !! (but cleverly made of acrylic, and beltdrive parts from the warehouse) ! housepet in a box © .......
270: Vinyl Asylum, RE: WL, is that you (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 17:08:26 (76.91.197.88)
No smooth operator would use radioshack cassettes. I don't think he was taking you one bit seriously. Welcome to the Vinyl Asylum, though. Don't forget to post your rig on inmate systems. .......
271: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Just happened to me too (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 14:16:44 (76.91.197.88)
Think I got the boxset of that Fluffiest Showtunes Imaginable title you mentioned. Keeping mine sealed and M++. But good story -- it is astonishing what gems can end up surrounded by atrociously bad .......
272: Vinyl Asylum, RE: MM cartridge for SME 3012 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 11:00:42 (76.91.197.88)
It's one of those things where yeah, it will work, sound will come out ; but why settle for a forced match, a half-solution. Mostly this come from those who are stuck with a cart/arm mismatch, but hav .......
273: Vinyl Asylum, RE: MM cartridge for SME 3012 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 10:19:36 (76.91.197.88)
Tricky one, because you want a high-cart-mass and low-cart-compliance here to go well with the 3012. MM's of recent vintage, even going back a long time, tend to be the opposite. Mass is not too tric .......
274: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Etiquette (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 10:11:44 (76.91.197.88)
Agree with the idea of being very polite and thanking the donor. People lose contact with reality when it comes to their own past and nostalgia, which of course these old scratched Eddie Money and For .......
275: Vinyl Asylum, RE: mc stepups (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-20, 09:49:24 (76.91.197.88)
That's just the thing with this category.. even if you've heard a few of the contenders, it's up to system (or maybe hifi show) conditions, loading, cabling, a whole lot of things that deter straight- .......
276: Vinyl Asylum, mc stepups (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-19, 14:14:13 (76.91.197.88)
On the tamura question, the sound is like the O/P trannies-- full, big, more tone-kings rather than detail-queens.... I use a custom set as mc-stepups and my poweramp has output tamuras. would've also .......
277: Vinyl Asylum, RE: "FUN" table (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-19, 10:55:04 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, gotta agree. A tech Sl12oo with the powersupply upgrades from kab. Do I get a fun system, too ? How about a tube phonostage into a TVC pre into some thundering huge ATC active speakers ? So a .......
278: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Marantz 8B + Tannoy Reds in DIY cabinets (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-17, 19:20:07 (76.91.197.88)
Marantz 8B + Tannoy Reds. Envy your system there. I think this one appears in the Audiocyclopedia next under 'classic'. Pictures ? Show them even if cabs are bare birchply ! Sound must be like liqu .......
279: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Mono rig. Nice. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-17, 19:14:26 (76.91.197.88)
Very very nice. Uhm, top-o-speaker components only temporary ? How about some wall-bracketry for those tubey denizens ? housepet in a box © .......
280: Vinyl Asylum, RE: the audiophile life (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-17, 11:58:28 (76.91.197.88)
When I hear the words "the audiophile life"... I hear the Simpsons theme song. Why would that be ? Down to business : All discussion providing your Reciever has an integral Phono input built in : (o .......
281: Vinyl Asylum, RE: easier by the day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 21:04:59 (76.91.197.88)
Believe me, my sympathies and enthusiasms rest on the side of solid, classic circuits, typically tube, or sources, or speakers, diy'd / restored by alternative-thinkers who couldn't abide by the mass- .......
282: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Or...it's getting easier by the day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 18:52:20 (76.91.197.88)
We're both talking about playing music, not sounds. I'm dropping preconceptions about diy left and right as I evolve, which means study, research, and rabbitting away on sound projects of all kinds. .......
283: Vinyl Asylum, what's under Full-frequency stereophonic sound ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 15:52:45 (76.91.197.88)
IE, what's the title of the record ? Dark & indistinct @ normal settings on a viewsonic P95f+ monitor here. housepet in a box © .......
284: Vinyl Asylum, record label picture as posted can't be made out. /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 15:30:55 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
285: Vinyl Asylum, RE: for the scoops... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 13:49:36 (76.91.197.88)
I think the somewhat diy-reticent vibe around here is that vinyl people are discerning and realistic about themselves and their capabilities. Many here aren't afraid of mounting multi-$k cartridges, .......
286: Vinyl Asylum, RE: take a look......................................... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 13:30:24 (76.91.197.88)
translation please well, tom, many members here did post pictures , and I'm sure others would have if they had the capability..... as to the point you make about "everybody sees what I'm discussi .......
287: Vinyl Asylum, RE: poked in the ear (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-16, 10:27:38 (76.91.197.88)
Not to rebut or challenge your assessment of the jefferson starship tune, which is fairly weak out-of-context, but I think it just might be that context can be all-important in some cases. Few record .......
288: Vinyl Asylum, RE: power-amp & speakers (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-15, 16:20:54 (76.91.197.88)
Almost forgot to post mine..... Airtight kt88 SE into Acoustic Energy Ae2. Nice in smallish space, looking into fullranger/fieldcoil land, though... housepet in a box © ::: T .......
289: Vinyl Asylum, What are your power-amp & speakers ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-15, 15:19:44 (76.91.197.88)
Just got to thinking, we spend so much time here talking source and pre-amp --- i.e. table, arm, cartridge and phonostage... ..and we don't really mention what the downstream half is comprised of.... .......
290: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A twist on mass damping the ROK L34/37..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-12, 10:07:09 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for link. Makes you wonder what the slang & idiom usage around here would end up looking like after it had been through the translate-shredder..... Here's my fave 実用で .......
291: Vinyl Asylum, RE: ROK idlers-skeletal plinth (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-11, 12:22:49 (76.91.197.88)
No experience with plinthing a rek-O. But with garrard 301 it works out to something like this : Less-plinth-mass = runaway, killer pace. More-plinth-mass = noisefloor down, more civilized. Somewhere .......
292: Vinyl Asylum, looking into tonearms (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-10, 19:11:17 (76.91.197.88)
Not sure why you might be ruling out Sme 3009 or 3012 arms unless "totally rebuilt"... are you hearing alarming rumors about un-rebuilt ones somewhere ? I think more than half the restored Garrards i .......
293: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, thanks, very informative (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-09, 13:35:54 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe somebody who can should do a FAQ for the hieff page here ? housepet in a box © .......
294: Vinyl Asylum, RE: garrard vs avid (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-09, 13:34:34 (76.91.197.88)
Agree. But about that antique restoration hobbyist business, well, I don't know. Sounds a little Geppetto's-Toyshop when you put it that way... I like to think of the idler movement as a solid, two- .......
295: Vinyl Asylum, RE: a little historical perspective... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-08, 15:18:26 (76.91.197.88)
All true. Nobody on the current scene revitalized idlerdrive. It's been a long, slow, underground movement that catches on a little, then fades, then resurfaces again. I think you can credit all th .......
296: Vinyl Asylum, garrard vs avid (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-08, 14:56:34 (76.91.197.88)
I still haven't heard the avid volvere, but still feel compelled to point out that it costs five grand. Whereas you can generally get a garrard 301 at about a grand, and if you're aware that the 401 .......
297: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Rim drives were also some of the most influential (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-08, 13:22:03 (76.91.197.88)
Funny thing that 'Rock N Roll', that rhythm-based music genre, came off just those kinds of idler tables to conquer the world.... And managed to put quite a few dollars in the pockets of it's purveyo .......
298: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: need to know... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-02, 14:23:39 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks, having a long look thru........ Also, for anyone else who wants an 'intro' kind of answer, I found the Single Driver Website which gets around to most of the cabinet types, and their peculiari .......
299: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, novice question again (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-04-01, 14:09:19 (76.91.197.88)
Is a Transmission Line design and a Horn Loaded (specifically backloaded) design --- the same thing, variations on the same thing, one a subset of the other ..? Is the flare in the horn the only thin .......
300: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, novice question on driver matching (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-25, 15:52:40 (76.91.197.88)
Sorry if this is elementary to most here --- This is as regards matching a pair of woofers, say, where exact DCR doesn't match on the raw drivers..... Often I see "pairs" of klangfilm, altec, tannoy, .......
301: Tubes Asylum, split decision ...... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-25, 13:10:45 (76.91.197.88)
Just one point to make here, while agreeing with concensus. If you use reliable gear in good condition, and replace tubes as required with New or Nos tubes, there is nothing to fear. Here's a big stum .......
302: Tubes Asylum, vintage vidclip and how-to article (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-25, 12:22:17 (76.91.197.88)
At Boing Boing. See link........ housepet in a box © .......
303: Vinyl Asylum, thanks for posting, will pick up (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-25, 09:58:04 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
304: Vinyl Asylum, more answers to nobody's questions (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-21, 18:01:21 (76.91.197.88)
Your taking the time to tell me that my judgement is my judgement, and that my assessment is my assessment ---- perfectly characterizes the usefulness of this thread. For me, time for other things. .......
305: Vinyl Asylum, 'test' does answer one burning question ---- (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-21, 17:13:55 (76.91.197.88)
The frequent question on garrard speed is just how to control it, and what value the mechanical or electrical approaches may have. Your posts here don't address that one in the least. Unfortunately .......
306: Vinyl Asylum, test marginal value to discussion. regard as significant if you like. end. .../nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-21, 16:33:51 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
307: Vinyl Asylum, narrow results, marginally relevant. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-21, 14:38:17 (76.91.197.88)
I say this : Inherent torque penalty makes volt reduction a loser proposition re speed control. A grand large-fonted, color-photo "test" with only a pair of single 10v samples doesn't make it otherwi .......
308: Vinyl Asylum, in the end test just isn't vitally relevant to the larger discussion. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-21, 11:39:51 (76.91.197.88)
In several threads, Participants A, B, C, D, E, F etc, etc write posts about various electric vs various mechanical controls. Participant G posts a grand 'Test' showing, for one of the several electri .......
309: Vinyl Asylum, could be worse. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-20, 20:34:32 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks !! J.D. housepet in a box © .......
310: Vinyl Asylum, We both had it a bit wrong; back to the big picture .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-20, 12:03:19 (76.91.197.88)
The endpoint for me is this : There was --and probably still is-- an unresolved discussion about mechanical vs electrical speed correction. And I think that micro-grooming the borderline-adjacent data .......
311: Vinyl Asylum, RE: On the big picture again (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-19, 11:44:16 (76.91.197.88)
I could go through my contentions & conclusions & clarifications again, but largely they're fine. Much of what is looking like raging disagreement here is related to your entering the discussion late .......
312: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Hmmm. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-17, 18:57:59 (76.91.197.88)
Let me start unnecessarily by saying that, of course, even a tiny tiny percentage of off-speed behavior in turntables is a turntable that's noticeably defective. Hopefully no one would be arguing that .......
313: Vinyl Asylum, numbers from different sources (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-17, 18:49:37 (76.91.197.88)
First, lets clarify the wholly obvious. It's hard to imagine you really felt that you had to post that "I think it is critical that a turntable should run on speed" ... Did you think there might be so .......
314: Vinyl Asylum, RE: the effect of voltage on speed. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-17, 10:56:03 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
315: Vinyl Asylum, interpretation (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-17, 10:53:34 (76.91.197.88)
Hi BK Alright, now where were we. Since your results are quantified, in the end, by showing how many 'notches' of pitch control adjustment it took to bring the table to 33.3 --- there are further ways .......
316: Vinyl Asylum, RE: with a 60hz pulley it runs too fast - (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-15, 19:22:55 (76.91.197.88)
Remember that "garrard themselves" are not by any means the firm that produced the legendary turntable. They are-- Loricraft, that is -- the ones who bought the name. A Garrard 3/401 running right at .......
317: Vinyl Asylum, T4 moment (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-15, 19:04:18 (76.91.197.88)
Garrard lists the 401 with a 110v to 125volt range, and frequency acceptable dependent on drive-pulley in use. That puts the North American Standard Voltage of 117 volts right at the center of the r .......
318: Vinyl Asylum, RE: More info on the Garrard 401 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-15, 13:11:08 (76.91.197.88)
Hi If I had more time today I might be able to help via the step-by-step approach, but I just don't. What should be emphasized is that none of this is rocket science, and that with max, maybe a couple .......
319: Vinyl Asylum, RE: More info on the Garrard 401 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-15, 11:34:54 (76.91.197.88)
Like everyone says, search the archives on the topic. In the last month alone, there have been literally dozens of posts on this. One red flag I note from your post is that the speed "is not control .......
320: Vinyl Asylum, If you value speed stability ..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-15, 11:15:02 (76.91.197.88)
Condition permitting, if you value speed stability, go with the Garrard 401. Exponentially better time, pace and speed stability. A used vpi scout ? That would be the opposite direction. See link fo .......
321: Vinyl Asylum, Try my method. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-11, 17:41:47 (76.91.197.88)
Practice, Practice, Practice ! First, I think your gorge is more likely something of a gouge. But if it actually causes the recording to "skip" for a dozen revolutions or so , you're just going to .......
322: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, buying single drivers to complete a pair (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-10, 22:17:06 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for replies. Thought provoking, all the way. J. housepet in a box © .......
323: Vinyl Asylum, shari lewis, lamb-chop, charlie-horse & hush-puppy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-08, 18:49:06 (76.91.197.88)
You gotta love this timeless tale of the most famous stalker ever. Marvellous talking-puppet act, on lp record so no lips moving.... housepet in a box © .......
324: Vinyl Asylum, rewinding (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-05, 09:58:14 (76.91.197.88)
Agree. Can't forget hearing from a science-dude at college, circa 1974, that "future records won't even need to be touched by a needle-- they'll have code which gets read by a laser" ...... Keeping i .......
325: Vinyl Asylum, doesn't ring that way either.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-04, 16:33:37 (76.91.197.88)
When choosing a species of slate, it's worth knocking a few to listen for weird resonant properties. Amongst other things, that was something I checked for in my selection. housepet in a box © .......
326: Vinyl Asylum, just walked over to my wallshelf'd slate (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-04, 14:55:01 (76.91.197.88)
Just walked over to my wallshelf'd slate ... Which has no sorbo, no padding, bubblewrapping, compositing. Just slate on steel spikes. ...and knocked hard on the underside. No ring, no bell, not much .......
327: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Never mind that. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-04, 11:53:47 (76.91.197.88)
There won't be much to eat, but you won't have to cook it, at least. Booze will be at a premium. Think Hot Sake. housepet in a box © .......
328: Vinyl Asylum, RE: missing link--- missing (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-04, 11:49:00 (76.91.197.88)
Gracias, Pete. I'll try to force my brain to metabolize autoformer concept / data. J. housepet in a box © .......
329: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Gingko and Maple and Vpi (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-03, 20:55:51 (76.91.197.88)
Fretless isn't far off in comments just below. Seems like a constant in Vpi-land that set-up advances that lead to wildly colorful, lush sonics are kind of hobbled, by a consequently dead & limp timin .......
330: Vinyl Asylum, RE: missing link--- missing (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-03, 10:46:14 (76.91.197.88)
Sorry, nope... No Lp12... I did extensive rounds of voltage reduction testing using first the Vpi motor --synchronous- in my Aries I turntable, and then another full round using my original Garrard 30 .......
331: Vinyl Asylum, some T4 Golden Moments© in an otherwise sensible thread (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-03, 09:50:25 (76.91.197.88)
Every tubesforever statement here to some extent wrong. And, as usual, posted after midnight, after, well, who knows how many bourbons..?.. you tell us, T4. No surprise there, but it would take some e .......
332: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 301 pulley remachined .... great info (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-02, 11:24:33 (76.91.197.88)
You got me. In defense of not caring too much, I'll say : As pointed out, the specification in garrard-swindon's original manual says-- dual range; operation in either freq domain with appropriate p .......
333: Vinyl Asylum, RE: AC line voltage does matter... /long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-02, 10:41:32 (76.91.197.88)
One edit -- let me amend what I said in the previous: In regard to the torque/prat penalties of reduced voltage, I posted "We are equipped to "listen through" an undertow of slight transport noise, w .......
334: Vinyl Asylum, RE: AC line voltage does matter... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-01, 21:27:35 (76.91.197.88)
Pete, Thanks for the considered reply. Never said AC line voltage doesn't matter .. Not surprisingly, I'll not reverse opinion here, though. What I can rely on is that I've done a fair bit of work on .......
335: Vinyl Asylum, think it's the Scout SE special (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-01, 19:06:53 (76.91.197.88)
that's Significant Expenditure special.... Has the new, cutting-edge "Integrated" in-&-outboard motorpod-- which they cleverly site inside the chassis, actually on-axis to the spindle. Some kind of .......
336: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 301 pulley remachined .... great info (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-01, 17:00:25 (76.91.197.88)
Well, the looser-mechanicals/weaker-magnets/lesser-drag reason is a guess. And no, there's no mention in garrard literature ---or even rumor mill- of a practice ever being established of starting w/ .......
337: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 301 pulley remachined .... great info (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-03-01, 13:29:04 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for posting this report. For myself I haven't had large-enough speed-adjustment issues to require a machined drive-pulley but many garrard enthusiasts have . And this is one of those simple-so .......
338: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard motor and idler damping with dynamat..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-28, 17:42:46 (76.91.197.88)
There are numerous, very good ways to tune, true, trim and touch up the performance of the motor - idler system in Garrard 3/401s. None of them, I'm afraid, are centered on changing the physical cha .......
339: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, buying single drivers to complete a pair ? excercise in ..? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-28, 10:00:14 (76.91.197.88)
Guess we've all found that the more unwanted and unpopular a speaker driver may be, the easier it is to find a flawless, matched, close-serial-number pair on the used market. The reverse is that of co .......
340: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 401 & first outing (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-28, 09:42:33 (76.91.197.88)
Hi Congrats, nothing more memorable than those first 'primitive' spins. There's no doubt, of course, that -after a serious course of maintenance-- sensible plinthing rounds out the performance of the .......
341: Vinyl Asylum, RE: hifi show with a difference this weekend (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-27, 16:02:23 (76.91.197.88)
Sounds great, do report back, maybe with photos ?? Perhaps someone there will put together a 'gallery' page. Now, what was the rhyming slang for "pork pies" again ? Oh, ... yeah. housepet in a box .......
342: Vinyl Asylum, don't miss **** almost didn't click this one (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-26, 11:03:55 (76.91.197.88)
Nice shroomy feel there, good story arc, and ... when you've been there, you've been there . What were we laughing about again ? And don't anybody dare say that some people look like certain animals .......
343: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Turntable/Animal game .. with cartoons ! (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-26, 10:40:41 (76.91.197.88)
Well, somehow, cartoons took over the nomination process. And to be fair to all brand-names, let's use the 'toons to describe drive methods, not specific models. Ready, you kids ? Somehow, when you .......
344: Vinyl Asylum, RE: about the hurdle... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 16:24:45 (76.91.197.88)
I'd say if your friend works on Leicas he'd pretty much be able to work on 3o1s with one eye closed. Good resource. Astute point about toolmakers. Agree all the way. (although, in terms of accessibili .......
345: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What watt light bulb (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 14:16:21 (76.91.197.88)
goes down to 100V, according to their website, so either they don't know what they are doing or there is no significant torque loss at 100V, as you suggest Or they know exactly what they're doing an .......
346: Vinyl Asylum, RE: the next page (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 14:06:27 (76.91.197.88)
First, sorry if you thought my generic rant (the idea of fixing the internal with the external add-on) was directed at you, or that you were somehow lacking in initiative to get in there and do the ma .......
347: Vinyl Asylum, on the next page (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 11:56:35 (76.91.197.88)
Well, as regards what's acceptable, I'd say categorically that sanding a drivepulley by hand just doesn't make the grade, for any first-class source component in a serious audio system. And as I unde .......
348: Vinyl Asylum, RE: most valuable records (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 09:27:49 (76.91.197.88)
Just to mention -- if you have better info, additions, corrections, etc--- the editing process of Wikipedia is wide open . Step up, register, and set the facts straight; it's that easy. You might eve .......
349: Vinyl Asylum, I think PH is saying it's more like an ARod autographed baseball .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 09:20:50 (76.91.197.88)
Or for europeans, an LA Galaxy team football auto'd by Becks & Posh. A big time WTF trophy. housepet in a box © .......
350: Vinyl Asylum, on the next page of vinylasylum (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 09:11:52 (76.91.197.88)
On the next page over, right here at vinyl asylum, is a thread that covers most of this in reasonable depth. You can take drivepulley info as the same for 401 and 301. Don't think I'd trust my own, or .......
351: Vinyl Asylum, good conclusion (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-25, 09:03:11 (76.91.197.88)
Let us know what you come up with regarding adventures machining down the drivepulley. It's the right thing to do. As an aside, I'd venture to guess that after you're more familiar with the effects, t .......
352: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 401 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-24, 20:02:58 (76.91.197.88)
The best cues for having the disc back in its original position--- providing impact hasn't mis-shaped it--- are two, I think. The original set-screw positions, lit from one direction or another (you' .......
353: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What would CF bolts deliver that ss or brass bolts wouldn't? nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 19:22:37 (76.91.197.88)
Uhm, can't tell about the deliveree . But about $189.oo, if you happens to be the deliver er . housepet in a box © .......
354: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A must-have accessory (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 19:20:31 (76.91.197.88)
Might vie for top-place with this humorous "piece of kit"... Why think too hard ?? Get both ! Use them together !! Sound-Wow !!! housepet in a box © .......
355: Vinyl Asylum, necessarily (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 19:03:47 (76.91.197.88)
"It's the 9-inch crowd that is anal about alignment and VTA." Very true, and it's because they have to be with the necessarily cramped geometry of the 9 inch pivotted arm. I'm not sure I could nail a .......
356: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: "Upgrade" to Mono ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 17:49:38 (76.91.197.88)
Huge cost / benefit considerations if you do. new preamps, phonostages, etc can be much better quality / smaller size / lower energy consumption / fewer vacuum tubes new power amps are now just one .......
357: Vinyl Asylum, RE: control (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 10:22:03 (76.91.197.88)
Well great.. but again it's worth saying that almost no two controllers are the same, and while lesser ones and, mainly, added resistance ones are worse than a good jolt of untreated mains ... well... .......
358: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 301 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-23, 10:10:28 (76.91.197.88)
Would you, when you go for this, put up some posts about the tricky parts ? Mainly and for example : Did you need to start with another drive-pulley, to have a larger diameter to start with, and/or t .......
359: Vinyl Asylum, RE:Garrard 301 ......the Japanese... & the jungle of ideas (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-22, 10:50:10 (76.91.197.88)
Re the 1ooV japanese mains, yes, for sure, that's been credited with giving the Garrard the no-aftermarket-add-on benefit, straight from the wall power, of a lowered voltage, which will in fact lower .......
360: Vinyl Asylum, RE: simpler than that, and less expensive (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-21, 16:20:19 (76.91.197.88)
I'd respond that Loricraft is in the aftermarket business of hundred+++dollar overhauls, and thousand++dollars controller boxes. Whereas Garrard , in their day, designed a deck for worldwide use, freq .......
361: Vinyl Asylum, the solution ..... simpler than that, and less expensive (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-21, 13:27:37 (76.91.197.88)
In the case of the Garrard, the preferred way to run the deck is to fit the motor inexpensively with the appropriate drive-pulley, either the 60hz or the 50hz. The stock Garrard decks are also multi- .......
362: Vinyl Asylum, RE: How to get the best out of Garrard 301 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-21, 13:10:22 (76.91.197.88)
Though I've heard good things about the Lori speed contollers, I have not heard them myself, so can't comment there. (Bear in mind, though, that Loricraft is no more the Garrard that built your machin .......
363: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Looks like (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-21, 11:55:30 (76.91.197.88)
Hi BK Hard to know, though, hm ? Could rival the stock or shindo bearing, but might be milled by a slow learner...... no real way of knowing. I always have doubts about people out-sourcing integral pa .......
364: Vinyl Asylum, On Topic (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-20, 09:55:51 (76.91.197.88)
On topic, certainly, and very much must-see. Brit Proggers explore the "Winter Of Love"... What's most fun is to see the now well-aged survivors laughing about what was once their very serious Mission .......
365: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Apples and oranges are both tasty (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-19, 18:54:26 (76.91.197.88)
My own personal tendencies may differ... okay, they differ a bit.... from what I may post on boards where, without question and 10-to-1, an overwhelmingly beltdrive-centric single-mindedness rules. F .......
366: Vinyl Asylum, Gramophone Archive resource now online (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-19, 12:16:53 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
367: Vinyl Asylum, RE: right about Torque (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-18, 21:46:49 (76.91.197.88)
Nice to hear re the Avid table. Worth noting, though, that at the $5000 USD they charge for an avid volvere, you could easily have about five garrards spinning, either 301s or--- a sextet or more of t .......
368: Vinyl Asylum, " the one small short coming of timing " (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-18, 14:34:16 (76.91.197.88)
Not to go too Don Rumsfeld with this, but I think in the turntable world, there are elective benefits on the one hand, and then necessary necessaries, on the other ... To me, slack timing is wrecked t .......
369: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Art Dudely is right about Torque- Stereophile March (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-18, 14:17:38 (76.91.197.88)
Competent Torque delivers unreconstructed, natural musical drive and pace. Music 'reconstructed' with timing errors unfortunately is not music any longer. Good to see Art---- a defender of beltdrive .......
370: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: 16 ohm (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-18, 10:55:19 (76.91.197.88)
Ah, got it. But don't run down that idea of 'over simplified' too much. Speaking for one of us, that's quite a good starting point. Thanks, J. housepet in a box © .......
371: Vinyl Asylum, RE: wall mount heavy table (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-18, 10:51:09 (76.91.197.88)
If I recall, this thing contends with over 100 lbs, at least fifty for the table/motorpod and fifty for the broad, 1-inch thick slate shelf. Bolted into the studs in six places, with 3-inch stainless- .......
372: Vinyl Asylum, "Folks, I'm Guessing ........" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-17, 13:30:06 (76.91.197.88)
Ya Following Me, Camera Guy ? "Knowing the right stampers helps me do it, but that is only part of the process. The right stampers only sound right some of the time." I think this guy should h .......
373: Vinyl Asylum, "remove inner sleeves, stack horizontally" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-17, 11:56:27 (76.91.197.88)
Start with a Mantovani base, then Ferrante on the bottom, then Teicher. Proceed through Helen Reddy and Jim Nabors, top with a Donny Osmond solo lp. Lean back, exhale, because now you've got Audiophil .......
374: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: 16 ohm output transformers & 16 ohm drivers (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-16, 16:14:24 (76.91.197.88)
So then, if 4/8 ohm speakers went louder sooner in the showroom but were much harder on the amp.... Would the same driver in the higher 16 ohm version ---say the lowther or tannoy models which come in .......
375: Vinyl Asylum, RE: article on the RIAA curve in the March Stereophile...... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-15, 09:15:37 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for the heads-up; sounds like a must read for lp-analog types like us. housepet in a box © .......
376: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, 16 ohm output transformers & 16 ohm drivers (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-13, 11:20:19 (76.91.197.88)
Looking into new (fr or dc) speakers, I find that there is a whole separate category of 16Ω drivers out there, often enough in 50s/60s era designs, but some still available in current offerings. .......
377: Vinyl Asylum, RE: is there a copy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-12, 21:30:23 (76.91.197.88)
Love to have one of those Mitch Millers, but, wouldn't you know.. I promised the better half I'd go out and repaint the astroturf tonight before the bars close and she gets back. Damn the luck. But k .......
378: Vinyl Asylum, is there a copy of 'Paint Your Wagon' ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-12, 19:13:54 (76.91.197.88)
Surely worth something on the cult record circuit. Young Clint Eastwood, if I recall, sings a duet, wretchedly. With that gnarly old dude from Cat Ballou . Wow what a lot of wasted cranial real-estat .......
379: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Can we assume a few things? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-12, 14:47:58 (76.91.197.88)
Good call. An SL12oo will outlast the initial blush of turntabling, whether it turns to occasional or addictive, and will certainly convert to a great second-system table, or if needed, good resale va .......
380: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: tannoy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-11, 13:28:46 (76.91.197.88)
.........and here's a link to that Kessler article, which is pretty informative, if perhaps a little too 4o1 biased ............ housepet in a box © .......
381: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Camp of the Living Dead (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-11, 11:42:31 (76.91.197.88)
"And guys, honest to god, when they were done making out and drove back to the girl's house, she opened the door and screamed. Because there, hanging from the door handle was the bloody hook. I kid yo .......
382: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: tannoy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-11, 10:55:43 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for the differentiations there. As you point out, there are some little clefts & corners in the year vs build vs materials vs performance etc, and worth figuring out. I suppose the upside to .......
383: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: tannoy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-11, 10:27:48 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks, looks like more research ahead. Fortunately I'm finding lots of tannoy info on the net; this links page is fairly wideranging.... http://www.hilberink.nl/codehans/tannoylinks.htm As to turntab .......
384: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: tannoy 'little gold' studio monitors (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-10, 15:44:03 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks, Bob, that's what I was looking for. Two questions, one rhetorical --- Isn't it very peculiar, in light of whay you say, that nearly every loudspeaker or single driver on ebay is labelled "alni .......
385: Vinyl Asylum, kinda reminds me of summer camp (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-10, 14:30:36 (76.91.197.88)
LOOK, UNTIL WE ALL RECITE THE CURSE ON THE COUNSELORS, NOBODY GETS THE KAOPECTATE, AGREED? ..yeah, it kinda reminds me of summer camp. Oh, not that I spent summer camp in the care of a bunch of no .......
386: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, tannoy 'little gold' studio monitors (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-09, 18:53:46 (76.91.197.88)
I keep seeing reasonable looking pairs of these around the net. Any good ? Maybe for the 12" tannoy-dc drivers alone ? What's efficiency like for these (I see numbers like 92, 94, 95 dB etc) ? Wonder .......
387: Vinyl Asylum, great story, nice work (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-08, 09:46:25 (76.91.197.88)
But you didn't talk about the design strategy for the sound of the plinth... What was the concept, how do you see the materials working together ? Since you're happy with result, obviously it worked, .......
388: Vinyl Asylum, RE: tanning solution (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 18:46:27 (76.91.197.88)
Funny what our cultural identifiers put our brains up to, when our lying eyes just won't see right. For some reason I was salty-eyed, lobster-red, and prone on the rat-poop-clean beaches of Atlantic C .......
389: Vinyl Asylum, different terms (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 15:40:27 (76.91.197.88)
There's Tonal smear, which is like: "Our sagging 18" woofer speakers are halfway behind the drapes and halfway behind the china cabinet. Most of the objects in the china cabinet ring and rattle at dif .......
390: Vinyl Asylum, RE: two phono stages (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 12:24:22 (76.91.197.88)
Agree with Johnny "Challenger" Elison below, you need a step up pair. But while we're on the subject, just KEEP both phonostages, if you can establish that they're quality units. The land of phono is .......
391: Vinyl Asylum, RE: crazy (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 11:41:03 (76.91.197.88)
I'll avoid the mass/maple discussion, but as a former Aries owner I'll double-secret ditto the removal of the wonky rubber bushings in the cone assembly, and yes they should be replaced by straight bo .......
392: Vinyl Asylum, RE: platter won't spin (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 11:09:00 (76.91.197.88)
The issues involved for each Area are position, mount, suspension, alignment, lubrication for moving parts, appropriate performance of elements involved (eg idler surface compliant, clean, dry; that k .......
393: Vinyl Asylum, not to complicate it more .... /long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-07, 09:34:20 (76.91.197.88)
Not trying to complicate it any more than it is, but another question is what will you decide re the Pitch Control on the 401 ? Now that you have external speed control, will you set that to 'off .......
394: Vinyl Asylum, as it happens, I already turned my Vpi into a brand new table (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-06, 19:10:09 (76.91.197.88)
And the brand new table is a Garrard 301 from 1956--- which is beyond comparison to what the 'modern' vpi was. How far beyond comparison .... well, enough to say the vpi is not missed. Though in fair .......
395: Vinyl Asylum, isnt' that (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-06, 16:15:58 (76.91.197.88)
Isn't that "Fat James Bond" --- part-time Secret Agent and Rock Roadie leadman ???? No One Wants To Run Into A Roadie With A License To Kill housepet in a box © .......
396: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Review: the Ultimate Mcintosh TT... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-06, 15:37:14 (76.91.197.88)
I'm All Totally Posting This Review From The Foodcourt Up In Here At The Mall ! housepet in a box © .......
397: Vinyl Asylum, Great review ! content-free & reads through like an internet advertisement ! (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-06, 14:54:36 (76.91.197.88)
NT housepet in a box © .......
398: Vinyl Asylum, RE: talcum powder for drivebelts (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-06, 14:51:59 (76.91.197.88)
pure talc hasn't got any cornstarch, fragrance, oils, or other ingredients that can work against long-term nonfriction... Think "starch" as "sugar" and picture what a little heat & friction add up to .......
399: Vinyl Asylum, RE egypt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-03, 08:54:49 (76.91.197.88)
Nights Over Egypt ........plush r&b production, Jones Girls. housepet in a box © .......
400: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Technics SP-12 MKI (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-01, 16:32:28 (76.91.197.88)
Macknificent looking components. Could I recommend something in a double macknife-edge tonearm ? looking good, pm. housepet in a box © .......
401: Vinyl Asylum, sure, mr sour grapes (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-02-01, 11:57:47 (76.91.197.88)
I happen to know which masterpiece classic you meant to post And here I am doing comparison tests with John Elison to determine which 'ghost' image has yin and which has yang. Eat yer heart out, .......
402: Vinyl Asylum, guys like you that give jazz a bad name (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 16:56:08 (76.91.197.88)
Know what ?---just to flip you off, I'm having an all-jazz spinfest tonight. You know, Lionel Richie, Norah J, Diana K, Chuck Mangione, Kenny. Then, a JAZZ AT THE PAWNSHOP shoot-out. We're gonna hav .......
403: Vinyl Asylum, RE: E.A.R. turntable non-review (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 16:33:59 (76.91.197.88)
Well, I wouldn't have put it up here if it were a Mark II special-edition of the VPClearBasis double-acrylic tiny-motor-rubber-bander. If this was yet another dumb spin on truth-stretchy old belt-tech .......
404: Vinyl Asylum, "hp-recommended lionel richie" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 12:35:01 (76.91.197.88)
Once you get started You cant sit down Come join the fun Its a merry go round Everyones dancing Their troubles away Come join our party See how we play! Oh, yes Were going to have a party! All nigh .......
405: Vinyl Asylum, E.A.R. turntable reviewed (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 11:29:05 (76.91.197.88)
//not affiliated w ear-yoshino// housepet in a box © .......
406: Vinyl Asylum, lovely at any age /..nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 10:58:01 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
407: Vinyl Asylum, "hp-recommended lionel richie" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 10:27:05 (76.91.197.88)
What part of that description would lead anyone to play it ? Hope it was free. housepet in a box © .......
408: Vinyl Asylum, who mastered the original pressing ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-31, 10:22:04 (76.91.197.88)
Sounds as if you only need to do a comparison (of the resume) of the mastering engineer of the original and compare it to what you know of the resume of mr Grundman. Maybe it will be easy, and one com .......
409: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Was the photo (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 18:20:51 (76.91.197.88)
Just put that there for you, Biff. Glad you're digging it. housepet in a box © .......
410: Vinyl Asylum, pre-dating The Seeds......... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 16:31:42 (76.91.197.88)
Jerry Lee Lewis The Killer housepet in a box © .......
411: Vinyl Asylum, RE: on the same LP (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 16:28:30 (76.91.197.88)
Courtney Love At Recent Benefit For Seal Pups Or Something Think it's safe to say that even the most legendary artists composed / wrote / painted / sculpted ..... silly assed little ditties , (whi .......
412: Vinyl Asylum, more pop (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 12:26:23 (76.91.197.88)
Truth is, I can definitely picture the stones or who doing a goofy little ditty like 'octopus'. How bout "Lady Jane" or "Sing This All Together" by the stones ? Ever heard "Fiddle About" by the who ? .......
413: Vinyl Asylum, if just forty years is a dealbreaker, I guess Bach is toast .... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 11:38:02 (76.91.197.88)
And Louis Armstrong --- see ya later pal. Roll over Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news. You know she wiggles like a glow worm, dance like a spinnin' top. She got a crazy partner, Ya oughta se .......
414: Vinyl Asylum, RE: John Martyn RIP (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 11:00:05 (76.91.197.88)
" him, his guitar and a big black dog that moaned " John Martyn solo in a tiny pub in Holland -- can't think of a more perfect way to remember this very talented man. housepet in a box .......
415: Vinyl Asylum, christ a pop band ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-30, 10:55:53 (76.91.197.88)
Only "got them into trouble" with hokum preachers & frecklefaced hillbillies from Lower Buttscratch. Good troll Don, hope you get lots of outraged replies on this one. See you at the prayer breakfas .......
416: Vinyl Asylum, RE: massive amounts of (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-29, 20:45:53 (76.91.197.88)
Strange, that turntable makes me kinda motion-sensitive, for some reason ... housepet in a box © .......
417: Tweakers' Asylum, liquid filled shockmounts (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-29, 15:40:33 (76.91.197.88)
Hello, Please forgive dust, these were just pulled from underneath an amplifier. The Question : What Are They ? I can tell you what they're from. A friend was tossing a six-cd changer ---the autom .......
418: Vinyl Asylum, CLD .. like this (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-29, 15:18:38 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
419: Vinyl Asylum, hashimoto transformer (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-27, 15:02:38 (76.91.197.88)
For those interested in the topic of Transformer quality, I noticed that one of the respected tube amp manufacturers -- Air Tight, japan - has switched to Hashimoto from their previous manufacturer Ta .......
420: Tubes Asylum, simple tube life question (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-27, 14:36:28 (76.91.197.88)
Simple tube-life question, I think...? A vintage receiver, complete with phonostage, that I've restored (caps, lytics, resistors) keeps all tubes 'on' --- no matter what function you're using. So the .......
421: Vinyl Asylum, wonder if they're First Pressings .... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-27, 13:31:58 (76.91.197.88)
And I certainly hope someone had the good sense to include the full Parliament Funkadelic George Clinton Bernie Worrell Bootsie Collins catalog.... Time to raise the roof on the National Mothership. .......
422: Vinyl Asylum, hydraulics (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-25, 20:59:17 (76.91.197.88)
I would suggest that Keith Monks was within a gnat's nose of being a legend with his Mercury conductor arm. Quite obviously the next step was something like a Zero-100 operated hydraulically, with me .......
423: Vinyl Asylum, no second thoughts about this one (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-25, 20:35:04 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
424: Vinyl Asylum, because search results are limited to only 200..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-25, 20:22:37 (76.91.197.88)
You'll have only that many to browse through in a standard archive search here. But--- if you search year by year, ie, dating results only to a year at a time, I'll bet you will accumulate thousands .......
425: Vinyl Asylum, takes a human cannonball to discern these things... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-23, 17:57:06 (76.91.197.88)
You guys might want to talk business, you know, carnie-rat-to-carnie-rat. Next in our center ring, the blood-sweating fremer-potamus ridden thru hoops of flame by tiny creatures from the mysterious c .......
426: Vinyl Asylum, RE: What makes (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-23, 17:51:17 (76.91.197.88)
In all fairness, I really think you should waive 'liar' and 'crook' as standard occupational hazards for hi-end audio reviewers. That falls under your basic coal-to-newcastle equation. In the Us, h .......
427: Vinyl Asylum, .. what is the tonearm ? ../nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-18, 09:54:57 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
428: Vinyl Asylum, eyes on the prize (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-16, 14:31:22 (76.91.197.88)
I'm thinking your best bet is the purchase of a new Epileptic Audio Reindeer --- which serves as your own canary-in-the-coal-mine of platter instability. As easily mounted as any audio wallshelf, th .......
429: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, big thanks (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-15, 10:10:20 (76.91.197.88)
Hello Thanks to all, lots of wide-ranging leads there. Looks like a couple months of research wouldn't hurt on this. J. housepet in a box © .......
430: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, midlife shift to fullrange drivers ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-05, 11:54:12 (76.91.197.88)
Hello Wonder about opinions here on a "next step" in audio. Years ago my Theta/Krell-powered system evolved, but the speakers haven't changed yet. Now using Garrard301/Sme/Spu > Luxman tube phono-pre .......
431: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Garrard 301 help (with pics) (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-01, 13:18:07 (76.91.197.88)
Hello Guess you'd already have located the "out of square" component if it were as simple as a bent fitting or a worn support..... Something worth looking into, though, is the set of compliant gromme .......
432: Vinyl Asylum, 'I am close to buying music I hate if it is cheap and shiny'... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2009-01-01, 11:43:02 (76.91.197.88)
This isn't the way to proceed. Tempting though it may be to surrender to a kind of acquisition-bloodlust thing, you've gotta stop and think. On the one hand, if you're finding dollar lps that cause yo .......
433: Vinyl Asylum, RE: 301 is rather high maintenance ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-29, 19:57:14 (76.91.197.88)
Yeah, a different kinda thing. Where something like a Linn Lp12 presumes distinct audiophile oversight and maintenance 'stuff'.... and something like a Vpi Tnt or similar presumes a watchful eye on be .......
434: Vinyl Asylum, more questions on the Sme arms (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-25, 11:39:56 (76.91.197.88)
Hi Brian Thanks for info there. Every time I think I have a firm hold on what's what in the 3009/3010/3012 series, some slight bit of new information creeps in and makes me think otherwise. Looking at .......
435: Vinyl Asylum, if you've got a 60hz pulley and you're supplying a 60hz feed.... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-22, 16:24:26 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe a thicker grade of lube in the spindle bearing.... ? Not sure about oilbearing 301s, but this works with greasebearing models. Failing the lube fix, I believe that Perfectsound (maybe slatedeck, .......
436: Vinyl Asylum, reko likely draws too much amperage for speedbox... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-20, 14:12:42 (76.91.197.88)
The ProJect speedbox --check numbers on this, to be sure--- is unlikely to have the current capability to handle the rekokut requirements. You'd have to know what the current consumption of the reko m .......
437: Vinyl Asylum, it would appear that this modification Was Not Subtle (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-19, 19:56:13 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe this is that jaw-dropping, gob-smacking, trouser-flapping momentous change in the sound that we've all read about. But it would appear that veils were dropped & wide-open windows on the origina .......
438: Vinyl Asylum, Thank heaven we got that straight. That clears everything up completely. /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-19, 09:43:45 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
439: Vinyl Asylum, RE: zzzzzz (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 17:31:44 (76.91.197.88)
"SWEAT" dreams to you. I'll stick with a nice dry winter's nap. Thanks anyway. housepet in a box © .......
440: Vinyl Asylum, zzzzzz (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 16:19:57 (76.91.197.88)
Your mix of disingenuous faux interest and seriously-missing-out on the point made me sleepy, Dave. housepet in a box © .......
441: Vinyl Asylum, Uhm, nobody here has the attention span to care. Just saying. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 15:42:22 (76.91.197.88)
A word to the wise. The posts below are already calling for your removal. Welcome aboard. You'll get deleted or bundled off to the gulag-- we seem to have 'punitive' boards here to which they'll relo .......
442: Vinyl Asylum, RE: serious specialty shop. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 15:28:57 (76.91.197.88)
Okay. Have it your way. But I'd bet that all the categories I mentioned --- " miniature stainless-steel hardware, ..both metric & english, ..cap-socket-allen-head and philips and hex, ..with a choice .......
443: Vinyl Asylum, what grinch could ever be 'negative' about a fifty dollar ripoff ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 12:36:32 (76.91.197.88)
What grinch could ever be 'negative' about a fifty dollar ripoff ? C'mon, dave. Smiley face on, no matter what. As to your points, yes, any hardware store worthy of the name should have miniature hard .......
444: Vinyl Asylum, RE: about the linkages (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 11:19:02 (76.91.197.88)
We're talking really minimal amounts of lube here. It's tiny dots placed here and there to ease the friction in the machinery, basically. And I think the tip from my site is a good one.. using the sew .......
445: Vinyl Asylum, you gather incorrectly (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-18, 11:08:14 (76.91.197.88)
This kinda stuff isn't new to anybody here. It's a fact of life in the audiophile food-chain. Anytime we can get people to specialty hardware stores (et al, metal supply, machinist, etc, the kind of p .......
446: Vinyl Asylum, turntable from Dattenberg GmbH (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 20:41:28 (76.91.197.88)
German assault on taste, there. Happens to be also distrib'd by Koetsu distrib in Us. Ridiculous no matter where it comes from, though. housepet in a box © .......
447: Vinyl Asylum, invisibility at times seems a matter of who sees what (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 19:36:11 (76.91.197.88)
Not to be cryptic. I know my cartridge hardware has always been a weak link in the subtle matter of invisibility in my 'big rig'. Maybe these will drop some of those veils, and cause my wife to call i .......
448: Vinyl Asylum, RE: about the linkages (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 19:23:38 (76.91.197.88)
I took my cue on that from the Garrard 401 manual, which states, under Maintenance, that ...... “…the lever pivots on the underside of the base plate… should be lightly oiled and sliding surfaces… sho .......
449: Vinyl Asylum, RE: point (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 18:56:41 (76.91.197.88)
"Your point ? Before this one ends up on Whiner's Woad too." Anything you missed ? Something need explication ? Everybody else seemed to get it. Not a lot there to get. Fifty bucks. For a plactic br .......
450: Vinyl Asylum, turntable set up tools ....... by Koetsu (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 14:34:47 (76.91.197.88)
ANALOG SANTAS TAKE NOTE ! Acoustic Sounds has this comprehensive Koetsu toolkit available at US$ 50.oo if you purchase now. housepet in a box © .......
451: Vinyl Asylum, RE: principle risk shipping w/o transit clamp is to eddy-brake (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 13:09:20 (76.91.197.88)
Scratches, gouges, you can live with, but the worst --- a dent or bend in the disc that would cause eccentric rotation -- would be unfortunate. The motor itself is pretty robust and survives much in t .......
452: Vinyl Asylum, principle risk shipping w/o transit clamp is to eddy-brake disc .. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-17, 11:18:38 (76.91.197.88)
Pack a little more reading-up into your pre-restore schedule. You know the sites, be sure you know the terrain before you attempt any 'adjustments'. The thin silver-colored Eddy Brake Disc is the mo .......
453: Whiner's Woad, RE: thanks, (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-14, 18:55:19 (76.91.197.88)
That's a little like saying there's an Lp Record Speed of 34.3 rpm. Technically true. There is of course, though never used, such a speed. And you could master and press records at that speed. But lik .......
454: Vinyl Asylum, Beautiful deck ........ /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-13, 21:01:36 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
455: Vinyl Asylum, RE: headshell weights. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 19:57:12 (76.91.197.88)
Agree. Difference is in the margins, knowing where you're just trying to adapt things in order to force a match, versus knowing you have reasonably compatible mates and finetuning the relationship. .......
456: Vinyl Asylum, RE: headshell weights. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 18:41:46 (76.91.197.88)
Just to mention-- no harm done in experimenting, as long as alignment is on and tracking force is correct .... but. Doubling or tripling the weight of a cartridge to suit arm mass / resonance point m .......
457: Whiner's Woad, whatever you think is best (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 17:55:19 (76.91.197.88)
Persistent probing there. Whatever you think is best. Check your oven to see if you left the gas on. Could be laughing gas, it's having that effect on me. Seriously. No, seriously. And give the Straw .......
458: Whiner's Woad, stick with it (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 17:51:13 (76.91.197.88)
You stick with it. You are one careful, studious inmate. Sometime soon you'll rise above this, it's inevitable. Have a cookie. Sit back. Breathe in. housepet in a box © ::: TOPIC .......
459: Whiner's Woad, be smart, send your strawman to anger management (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 14:59:45 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks deeply for the concern, but guess what ... I'm not at all angry ! It's easier for you to try on a "something's very wrong here" posture if I am, though, huh ? As you describe it with drama, "in .......
460: Whiner's Woad, yeah. /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 12:02:44 (76.91.197.88)
youbetcha housepet in a box © .......
461: Whiner's Woad, thanks (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 11:45:04 (76.91.197.88)
Your post is lucky No. 100 in this thread !! You get two weeks with HP ---! ..... staying in your guest room, and expounding whereas he may, and may see fit , on just howsoever it strikes him verily, .......
462: Vinyl Asylum, RE: canare (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 11:31:43 (76.91.197.88)
canlkes, Another canare variation... try the opposite for a line-level position..... for example from pre to power : Given : A strong output preamp feed to poweramp (or a high-output phonostage or da .......
463: Vinyl Asylum, approx $1.8k ... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-12, 09:56:41 (76.91.197.88)
Music Direct has the Pagode Signature Wall Shelf (ves)---(a pair would be pretty great, maybe the second one for phonostage, cleaning brush, etc)-- ready to fly out the door at $18oo. Each. If those s .......
464: Whiner's Woad, uhm, yeah, consumed. ../nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 18:28:54 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
465: Whiner's Woad, And you seem to be most consumed by reading it. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 18:10:50 (76.91.197.88)
I think the rest of us were pretty much done with this by now. You, on the other hand, seem to be very much consumed by reading into it. I guess I should feel proud to have such a close & careful stu .......
466: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Christmas LP's .... an audiophile fave...... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 13:53:30 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
467: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Christmas LP's (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 13:40:03 (76.91.197.88)
DEFINITELY THIS ONE housepet in a box © .......
468: Whiner's Woad, Discuss a review. Provide constructive feedback. Talk to the industry. /`nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 13:01:34 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
469: Whiner's Woad, RE: Audio Review Excerpt ../long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-11, 11:16:03 (76.91.197.88)
Well, you may not want to get too elaborate with that apology stuff. When I posted about the "fair value" and getting paid to write audio reviews, I was of course being deeply facetious. There is no v .......
470: Vinyl Asylum, Are we finally seeing the answer to your "digitize all records" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-10, 16:57:54 (76.91.197.88)
Pet Your New Hobby Horse, Young John, It's All Digital Now Is this really what you've been saying all these years ? I really hope I'm missing it somehow. Let me be sure if I've got this straight. .......
471: Vinyl Asylum, wood base, slate & limestone load (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-10, 14:00:26 (76.91.197.88)
Just wondered. Seems like many of us get into this thing of building up the turntable-adjacent shelf with tons of mass, without really having a correspondingly massive support structure. Some installa .......
472: Vinyl Asylum, maybe you guys should circulate a cdr initially (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-10, 13:32:54 (76.91.197.88)
Maybe you guys should have somebody burn and circulate an expendable cdr initially--?-- so you have some sort of feel for the music ?? However, this enterprise does all feel a little misconceived if .......
473: Vinyl Asylum, slight wood base, weighty slate/limestone top .... no wobble factor ? .. nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-10, 10:47:33 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
474: Vinyl Asylum, RE: short arm vs long arm (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-09, 11:05:57 (76.91.197.88)
There is a lot in the archives on this. Here's a start : housepet in a box © .......
475: Whiner's Woad, your posts are (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-08, 18:20:28 (76.91.197.88)
Always a revelation. Sort of a faux-religious inflection here, this time out. Idiot winds , Lordy , Christ , striking out , blowing you clear of the planet --!! Really wild, bjh. Wild & weird. I ho .......
476: Vinyl Asylum, RE: regarding Thorens TD124 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-08, 16:10:53 (76.91.197.88)
Surely the Thorens engineers would say it combines the direct-coupled drive & pace of idler, with the smoothness & finesse of having a noise-buffering belt in the path that mediates any rumble and tra .......
477: Whiner's Woad, And that word is hydrolyzed vegetable protein. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-08, 10:36:21 (76.91.197.88)
Hang on, that's 3 words. I never get this right. Okay. Start again. housepet in a box © .......
478: Whiner's Woad, for constructive criticism, you'd need to READ the posts (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-08, 10:21:18 (76.91.197.88)
For constructive criticism, you'd need to READ the posts in the thread first. But thanks for a completely 100% content-free followup. housepet in a box © .......
479: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Ortofon MCA-75 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-07, 12:08:08 (76.91.197.88)
Cool, looks very amenable to loading and modding. If it is a headamp or active pre-pre (not stepup as in your title).... Couple random thoughts... (though can't answer your main question, sorry) * Kn .......
480: Whiner's Woad, thing is (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-07, 10:11:39 (76.91.197.88)
My reason is that by bring this kinda thing up for a round of criticism every once in awhile, people might get a whiff of fresh air ----never provided in the jaw-dropping, socks-knocking, gob-smacking .......
481: Vinyl Asylum, success in concept form (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-06, 16:29:10 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
482: Vinyl Asylum, mm would be suitable if massy/ lo-compliance enough for high mass 3012 (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-05, 16:50:40 (76.91.197.88)
That used to be no problem years ago when carts were overall heavier, but come the late sixties/early seventies craze for lo-mass arms and hi-compliance carts, the heavy+lo-comp mm cart went away. Tod .......
483: Vinyl Asylum, better without threads .. three reasons (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-05, 09:44:27 (76.91.197.88)
The big reason for non-pre-threaded mounting holes in cartridges must surely be that you can discard stripped or cross-threaded hardware ---but a stripped-out cartridge is pretty catastrophic. Add to .......
484: Whiner's Woad, perplexed at the ellipses (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 19:07:36 (76.91.197.88)
Ellipses, honestly, were placed to let these gems of intuition and audio expertise shine on their own, brilliantly & without crowding. But. Don't be so reticent. I think you've gotten to the heart of .......
485: Vinyl Asylum, the answers here beg the question. (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 18:54:01 (76.91.197.88)
And, vice versa. Non ? best, pepe le troll sniffier housepet in a box © .......
486: Whiner's Woad, Do you think these "Excerpt" citations can possibly be the work of just one man ? (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 18:51:30 (76.91.197.88)
Working alone, against all odds, walking these mean streets, cutting off noses to spite faces, waking up to smell the cat-fur, sniffing out the rats on the sinking ship of high-end perfunctoriality ? .......
487: Whiner's Woad, RE: "The Passage?" (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 18:31:51 (76.91.197.88)
This quote was verbatim from the page linked below. Name of product and name of Audio Expert were not cited, so as not to embarrass the parties involved. {Although revealed later in thread by intrepi .......
488: Whiner's Woad, uhm, sounds good .... you go ahead and start. ..good luck with that.. nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 18:03:54 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
489: Whiner's Woad, difference inconsequential. If-you-can't-do-better----you-can't-criticise = Fraud's Defense (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 16:56:26 (76.91.197.88)
Again, ridiculous . housepet in a box © .......
490: Whiner's Woad, This out-of-context nugget is a shining example of this Audio Expert's work (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 16:14:08 (76.91.197.88)
Chosen for it's unique way of weighing down the page with the fury and sound of absolute nothing at all. And it was difficult to choose amongst the myriad of prose stylings that have been squeezed out .......
491: Whiner's Woad, worse post ..... (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 16:00:12 (76.91.197.88)
The contestant we honored is a putrid reviewer, overloads the slimmest of sentences with the maximum of verbiage, invents a real crap-language to do so, and puts a very old and familiar foot in his mo .......
492: Whiner's Woad, Kinda like saying if you don't like a certain model of car, design better one before you speak. Ridiculous. nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-04, 12:34:32 (76.91.197.88)
housepet in a box © .......
493: Whiner's Woad, RE: an envelope (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 18:05:11 (76.91.197.88)
Wow, some kinda swingin classy audiophiles there. And... while the linked excerpt shows a real appreciation of 'invisibility' parameters..... ... Well. The well-established ground-rules of "AREOTD" - .......
494: Vinyl Asylum, sounds like a John Waters film gone sour (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 16:56:01 (76.91.197.88)
Or Nightmare On Tubes Street... Or was it that "lost" peewee herman episode ... ??? Yuck, whatever. "brought him eye to eye at a party" "I looked at the Mom and said, "Do you see his behavior now? .......
495: Whiner's Woad, RE: Review of the review (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 11:50:12 (76.91.197.88)
Well it's plain to see that veils were lifted for you, like someone had cleaned the glass in a window onto the magazine you're reading. Would you say it's maybe the "silences in-between the invisib .......
496: Vinyl Asylum, Audio Review Excerpt Of The Day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 09:29:36 (76.91.197.88)
As we move further into a world recession, it's good to know some services still retain their fair value. Just in case you hadn't been paying close attention, somebody is still paying somebody to writ .......
497: Critic's Corner, Audio Review Excerpt Of The Day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 09:29:36 (76.91.197.88)
As we move further into a world recession, it's good to know some services still retain their fair value. Just in case you hadn't been paying close attention, somebody is still paying somebody to writ .......
498: Whiner's Woad, Audio Review Excerpt Of The Day (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-02, 09:29:36 (76.91.197.88)
As we move further into a world recession, it's good to know some services still retain their fair value. Just in case you hadn't been paying close attention, somebody is still paying somebody to writ .......
499: Vinyl Asylum, yeah. Another blatant T4 moment recommending stuff you've never seen. /nt (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-12-01, 10:05:29 (76.91.197.88)
And remember -- you are perhaps the only Vinyl member EVER directed by the moderators to stop lying. You forgot that, I'll bet. housepet in a box © .......
500: Vinyl Asylum, RE: A bit long (0.00)
Posted by J.D. on 2008-11-30, 11:05:58 (76.91.197.88)
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. Vacuum capacitors.. who knew. (not me) Interesting, the old adage about DIY being the ultimate economic approach ends up hitting the dirt.. I can certainly see th .......
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