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I read a book last winter when housesitting a friend's place called Salt - A World History by mark Kurlansky. I had minimal expectations from what I presumed would be a dull subject. But it was the most facinating read I've had in a good long while. That salt mine in Germany was discussed in...

I have yet to read any Kris Kristofferson tribute mention him being in Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea. It was the only Kris Kristofferson movie I saw and that had everything to do with the Playboy pictoral of him and Sarah Miles.

I did not realize that song was covered by anyone else. The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is one of few albums that I can honestly say is one of my favorites. I have owned my vinyl copy (not an original release) since the early 1970's and have played it uncountable times. Eventually I...

Thanks Glen. Happy that you cleared up my imagined, assumed problem.

I'm going from memory (which should not be trusted) of a past experience. If a schematic shows voltage at large filter caps as 42 volts but with those filter caps removed, 52 volts is measured....is that expected?

I am going with the flow on this one. Over the past two days, I google searched a number of terms and power switch failure was commonly cited as the source of problems with multiple Kenwood, Pioneer and Marantz models. This Kenwood I have is model KR6030 and the power switch is located at the...

Is your triac a production part and available to purchase? There was too much infomation (or too many posts) contained in that AK thread for me to comprehend. I happened across a mid 1970's 80WPC Kenwood receiver a few days ago which exhibits a behavior that is reportedly a symptom of...

Jeez, next thing you guys are going to say is that those 3000 watt complete home theatre in a box systems for $299 weren't really 3000 watts.

I quite agree. I lost interest in Pink Floyd after Meddle. I was given DSOTM and The Wall as presents but only played them if someone visiting me wanted to hear them. Other than it's existence, I knew nothing about Obscured by Clouds until a couple of years ago when I found a copy, flipping...

Yes, there was a settlement last year. I lost $750 on the deal but my thinking was that part of a loaf was better than none.

It was sometime in the spring of 2022 that I dropped it off there.

Off topic but the photo Nando posted of the consignment Nak Dragon at The Turntable Shop shows my Thorens TD124 in its baltic birch base next to it on the left. It too was left there on consignment but was not present when contents of The Turntable Shop were assessed after the owner's passing.

None of the turntables I am concerning myself with right now are worthy of anything but an entry level cartridge. There are four tables and all were pretty much landfill rescues. Although I did pay for them, it wasn't a whole lot. One is a Revolver Rebel, two are Sony's and one is a CEC...

What vendor sells AT3600's for $12? I'll be needing a couple more cheap cartridges shortly. Those I've gotten up til now have been AT 95C's which are $50CAD.

I ordered a conical stylus from a vendor and questioned why no .06mil were available which was the size of the original stylus I was replacing. And that all I found online were 0.7mil. This is the answer I received: "Yes the generic replacements don’t cover all the original diamond tip...

I agree with that. There are some Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino etc 78's I have that seem to sound more like what the intended sound was supposed to be. 33 1/3 and even 45 versions of the same songs don't seem to have the same oomph.

I went to an Arby's 2 weeks ago. Was on a road trip and had to detour into a town I wasn't planning to go through but went anyway specifically to get an Arby's sandwich. A dozen or more years ago I used to like them. My order was a large beef and cheddar with a large curly fries - no...

I have a 4 fin 400 which has darkly tinted meter lenses. Dark enough so that without directly viewing the original incandescent bulb filaments, I could not tell that they were lit. Bright white LEDs on a White Oak lightboard overcame the dark tint. Is that a date stamp on the top left...

Two of the four output transistors were gone and are now replaced. When I receive and install new bias pots, the DBT will hopefully go dark. Assuming that both the 12 turn pot and single turn pot I ordered can be made to fit, is one better than the other for bias adjutment in a SS amp? My...

Thanks Glen, that will help. Those I ordered should arrive in 3 or 4 days. Next chore for me I guess is pulling the output transistors and see if any of those got damaged.