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PS - Nice job on that face! To tell you the truth, a pretty face like that will draw a potential purchaser's eye...so the wood finish becomes more of a background thing. (It's very rare to see a vintage receiver look that clean & crisp -- plus the sharpness of the photo, it makes for a...

Q: Are you building it for youself, or are you going to restore it/sell it in order to help fund another project? I know that this would make a difference to me if this was my project...

You know what? I've always told people that my lifestyle has been mostly to 'know a whole lot about very little'. So I'll have to admit in public that I never really got the opportunity to fish...but, then again I've never been known to be stopped by a lack of experience before. :0) I think...

PS - I used to read about the Ohm Model F's in my high school library. I've never seen a set in person, much less heard them, so this would definitely check another box on my audio enthusiast bucket list! Not to mention the only K-horns I've heard were ~45 years ago at a little audio store in...

Lee, I truly enjoy hearing other people's sound systems. Some of my most satisfying long-term improvements to my own setup have come from listening intently to a fellow enthusiast's system, realizing that it did a much better job in one or more areas than what I had at home...and then this...

Lee, you are absolutely right, in that in order to get the full effect from either song it needs to be heard on a clean/authoritative system. Anything else just caves in on the first song, whereas the delicate piano playing & finger snaps are lost on the latter version. Actually, when I come...

Lee, just prior to restaining/repainting my house (circa '99) on a quiet cul-de-sac, I had heard this song on one of the more adventurous low-power college FM radio stations, and bought the CD. Which I played while staining said house. The gist of the CD was basically this guy with the stage...

I've been guilty of nattering on about trying to capture the subtlety & nuance of different songs -- that is, on a mediocre system all songs have a similar sound due to one note bass, honky midrange, sawtooth treble, etc. Well, let's relax a bit and check out 2 completely different...

Lee, going along with George S., here's a screen snap of just some of the Simpson 260s for sale "for parts only": I saw Series 2, 3, & 5 on offer. Of course, it's a bit of crapshoot if the parts donor wasn't also wounded the same way. Then again, you may open up Dad's 260 & find that you...

Lee, you saw how I wrote up how much better I felt undoing the scratches on the dust cover of my old Dual turntable. Even if you blew an etch you can usually put a lasting 'field fix' on it with a piece of wire bridging the damage & soldered on both ends. Some things can't be quantified in...

Lee, it has that NOS (New Old Stock) look & feel to it. It's too nice to bang around in the garage with it...no worries, I am at least 2 deep in 'looks bad, works good' type meters already in use out there. :0) It's nice when you don't have to drag out the good stuff in order to troubleshoot...

OK, another small step for the lab - the Simpson 260 came in from TX. Note: My focus was on the meter & leads, the leather case was a bonus - even though it had 3 silver-colored smudges/fingerprints on it...a don't-care on my end. More importantly to me was the photos of the internals showing...

Never heard this before - playing it now. - wow - Thanks for sharing!

The HP 6228 Dual tracking power supply ($37 + shipping/tax = $112.47 to the door) arrived from Arizona today. Here's what I received: (0-50vdc, 1 amp x 2 channels) But wait, there's more! Shortly after I found a slightly different HP 62xx series power supply on offer -- a 6227, which offers a...

Congrats on a successful power up on the 1st try -- great way to end the year on a high note!

My last reply to this covered familiar ground having to do with the size & shape of the room vs. the physical wavelength of a given note. But to better address your comment about room size vs. speaker size, (or more accurately, the speakers' ability to move a lot of air doesn't help make it...

J!m, Isn't it great when it seems like they just want to run? BTW, really nice clean up job on the dial, front panel, & knobs!

Sir, The Shure phono preamp was yet another item that I was unaware of. Obviously given my cartridge selection this may be a better-than-average combo. Please keep these tips headed my way -- being away from the hobby for so long has really left some gaping holes in my personal knowledge...

Gepetto, I followed your link, followed by some quick googling through older posts about this battery-powered phono preamp...and given the price of admission, this is a perfect fit for me coming up to speed and having something to compare/contrast against my old PL 2000 pre-amp. So...I pulled...

Skratch, Gepetto beat me to it, but Peggy said that what I suffered from was "selective hearing". She always wanted to know why my hearing was so keen except when she was talking to me. I always told her that part of her allure was that she was so soft spoken... Then, on cue, she would roll...