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Got my first SME in 1974. It was a 3009 S/2 Improved which was the removable headshell version. Tried the Mayware, a low mass arm, great for the Micro Acoustics cartridge back then. Bought a Magnepan tonearm when they came out at the end of the 70s. These are my arms of choice but have had a...

Am I sensing a shift in the space-time continuum? Nando consigning at a different shop and scaling back his collections?

If your preamp will never deliver any DC and you use a very low frequency filter to prevent the vinyl playback system from sending the lowest frequencies, record warp, tonearm resonance and such through the preamp to the amp then you can use the DC input. Difference shouldn’t be heard but might...

The amp is marked wrong for proper use by real people. Some amps will mark the DC input as Test input and the AC input as the Normal input. This is how the Sony TA-3200F amp is marked for the switch that puts a capacitor in the circuit for the normal position. The cap selected provides...

Have a pair of monaural power amps with one having a couple 2W resistors dropping 2.7W while I wasn’t watching. Found this: Burned board: Doesn’t look bad, but the boys say that charred board can be conductive so the burn was scraped away: The green dot pattern are the traces on the other...

Oh, I missed putting in clean, clean, clean in the steps to restoration above. Some people.

Yes, it can be fixed. The two boards appear identical so rip off the blowed up crap, clean and repair the board to like new, including any damaged traces and repopulate with new working components. Check anything not trashed by the burn and replace as needed.

FM tuner alignment is 30% skill, 30% experience, 30% science, 30% test equipment and 30% art. Getting a tuner that works exactly as new with a correct alignment is a pure treat. Mike is known to do an excellent job. I guess I need to get a recap done and get my 719 boxed up for shipment. Might...

His site does say the line is short.

Thanks. I need to check on that.

I need to find a guy. My 719, waiting for me to fix the lower output in the matching AU, when tuned gets 3 readings for the station. The actual broadcast MHz heard over the air, the digital readout a few tenths off and the dial indicator, another few tenths off, probably the other direction...

JaS isn’t TH, he is HFE and VE. PS is TH but we know what you mean. Some bad actors cause wider blackouts than just the problem child. I didn’t know PS was banning IP address ranges.

That is one long paragraph. was it a shop in SEPA or was it an individual the does Marantz? Nice price.

Just received this album from a friend. Katie Pruitt’s first album.

I’m liking my rig. played some Quantic and Q-burns discs, Sade, Santana last couple days. A few different Q discs as I have a handful and liked em on first listen when I rated them on Discogs. But Curasión by Santana on Multidimensional Warrior I crank and with the 4 dome tweeters, two piezo...