banquo363Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesThank you, Dan, for the kind words. You are right to assume that my collection of gear is not possible without the guidance of superior minds. Just to call out a few: the cartridges stem from Raul'... posted about 8 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesPrecipitated by my wife's desire to install new wood fl;oors throughout our house, I deicided to take cover under the ensuing chasos to make extensive changes to the system. Thus: installed dedicat... posted about 8 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Sick of running wire through walls and moving from one room into another, I finally got around to getting all the gear into the same room. This also had the consequence of getting th... posted almost 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesBut it may also put you out into the garage permanently with your wife due to bass seepage. So be careful what you wish for. Silver lining: I'll be neare... posted almost 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesTwo rotary switches on the front panel with the following values: 100, 33k, 50k, 100k ; 470pf, 330, 100, 220.Not as many options as my sony ta e88 phono/pre which allows a range from 10kohm... posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI'm glad you chimed in, Halcro, since it was your remarks on the tt 101 that gave birth to my Victor fetishism.Seriously though, I'm particularly interested in whether the eq7070 phonostage... posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesInadvertently, I've become something of a Victor Laboratory gear collector. I started with their magnificent tt-101 turntable and then their equally impressive X1 mk2 and Z1 MM cartridges. In the p... posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeEasy for me to identify, since I own this amp. Regarding the reasons behind the mods, I can only guess. Beefed up power supply caps. The orginal maufacturer didn't do this, since I don't see the ch... posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesThanks, Albert.Try as I might, I can't catch glimpse of the three compartments you mention. No matter. I found a pic form anarchived hifido page that shows the added weight, posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesd'uh: forgot to name what I bought--TTM oil damped stabilizer posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: Impulse purchase. Recall seeing it on Albert Porter's page. The problem with impulse purchases is that one does not know how properly to use the item. In this case, the oil damping m... posted about 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeI don't have a cd player hooked up to my system (there are not enough hours in the day for both vinyl and cd). When I want to hear music to see whether I should buy the vinyl, I stream it via groov... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & Tapeaddendum: must be in better condition than this one--which I'm sure it will be. posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeI may need more love and some special protection from someone soon what with my wife's new found interest in my records.uh...could you pass this note alo... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeI'm of no use with the particular recrods you list, but if it were me, I'd put the Mahler and the Beethoven piano sonatas first on the clean cue. ...I didn't know you liked opera?! It's a vinyl bar... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesBanquo so you were able to go from a 12 foot cable length down to 3 foot. Well done. Only in this audio hobby that I can think of, does shorter length equate to better ?<... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubeslol, Halcro. That pic is old; I was chasing down a hum and trying out different platform configurations at the same time. I leave it up to remind myself of the state of mind I was in at that time. ... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesDidn't you recently install curtains? Am I correct to assume they are proving beneficial in more ways than just sonically ?Yes and YES! Curtains and (for... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: My brain must be suffering post new year's meltdown. I've been wanting to replace a long run of blue jeans cable (12ft), so after a year of thumb twiddling, I have the great guys at ... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesI too have just bought a JVC/Victor Z1 with original beryllium cantilever which has ALSO collapsed...😱It is written that Athena was born out of Z... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesSystem edited: There's never a dull moment when dealing with NOS cartridges. My recently acquired NOS victor 4dtz1s stylus (shibata) rides very low, so low that it was just a matter of time before ... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Air, Magnets, String & TapeThanks for the links. Haven't listened to the Peter Gabriel yet (it took hours to download) but the Linn material does indeed sound really good. posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubeshi Acman,The acutex is stock: it just went on a world audition tour. Maybe when I wear it out I'll send it to Axel. Glad you like the 2500 series astatic. It may be the festive holi... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesThanks to Ct0517, she's returned home. This is a well traveled cart: started in Italy, then So. California, then Toronto, ... posted over 9 years ago | View comment | |
Audiophilia on the Cheap: Playing with air and tubesAfter months of searching and waiting, I finally acquired 2 items: sound anchor stands for the 801's and this, a NOS victo... posted over 9 years ago | View comment |