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So I have some gear for sale in my wife's vintage shop - when setting price levels everyone says”go to ebay”. But typically ebay doesn’t set a value on the installed tubes and other add-ons. I can price them separately - but when you add it up it seems way too high. For example, I have a...

So I fully recapped my 500B 7 or 8 years ago had it working 100% and put her on the shelf. Today I decided to bring her up on a variac and make sure it was still 100%. Well I have an odd problem - on FM the right channel comes on at significant volume. Volume control still works (i.e. it can get...

Curious if anyone has tried the Rhino Half Speed Masters on Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Pin-Ups and Ziggy? They are priced on sale now at a fraction of Mobile’esque levels. According to Rhino…”This new pressing of Aladdin Sane was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped...

I recently acquired a pair of Hartley Zodiac 75’s as part of a lot purchase. They are well built British speakers with lovely Walnut veneer. Removing the 10” Woofer revealed that the crossover on these two way speakers is a single 12MFD Capacitor to the tweeter! Both caps were dead and will be...

A friend had the coax FM antenna connection broken off his Pioneer VSX-D814-K - he asked me to see if I could fix it. I have found a replacement circuit board (AM and FM connections in a neat little box) but it costs more than the receiver is worth. Is there a coax female connection that can...

Back in the day I won a copy of The Doors Vinyl Box Set in a silent auction as part of a benefit concert in LA. It was donated by a radio station and was a fundraiser for a jazz drummers widow. Wes Montgomery played - pretty awesome. Anyway - I never opened the box set and today was curious...

Stopped into our local Re Store and found these all original 5’s - Serial #’s 016194 & 016186. These are just gorgeous. Just finished restoring my JBL L100’s - should be a fun comparison. Looking forward to the restoration.

My wife is going to re-open an antique store in our carriage house (we have been shut down since the pandemic). I want to display for-sale a collection of large receivers plus some turntables and LP’s. I really liked the Salamander design but it didn’t work for me (not wide or deep enough) so I...

Lately I’ve found the tweeters in my Quartets to be near un-listenable (at least to my old ears). They tended to shrill and often created this irritating shriek that would ruin a listening session. I tried the titanium inserts and even restored the ferrofluid but nothing really helped. I also...

Looking for advise - I went to play This is The Moody Blues @ 7.5IPS (which is a heavy reel) and the RT-707 trips off right after hitting play. Put another tape on, still 7.5IPS, and no problem. Any ideas?

Like the title says I've been itching to try JBL’s in my main system. My current setup is Audio Research SP11 pre feeding mono block Forte Model 7’s (75 “Class A” Watt output). My current speakers are Klipsch Quartet with full Crites upgrades. My listening space is 15’x14’ . Locally, there...

I have been working with Bruce at Eminent Technology on various little nags that I thought I would share in case they can help others here… First, Bruce rewired my ET-2 a few months back (not the wand but the body) - everything was great but occasionally the wire loop exiting the body would...

So I am getting my SX-838 ready for camp duty (deoxit, replace tuning/signal meter) and while I had it opened up I figured I would do the Power Amp alignment - described in the manual (see below). The first thing I did was connect 8 ohm dummy loads to Speaker A then deoxit the four variable...

I was doing some A/B comparisons between vinyl and R2R tapes (factory recorded) of the same LP’s. I found the LP’s sound to be fuller with an extended high end (which I liked). The R2R tape had a more “warm” sound with solid bass and less fatiguing highs (which my wife preferred). System is...

I am testing a bunch on 6DJ8 tubes of various manufacture. In some cases a test will initially register in the good range and then drift to “?” or “Bad” if I continue to hold the test button down. Most tubes hold their reading if the test button is held down for say 5-10 seconds. I assume...

So I picked up this record in a big lot - I am thinking it is likely a knock off as discogs has sold several at $1K and higher. The vinyl looks pristine but is a very poor press with several dimples and I don’t believe the LP was ever played as the spindle hole is off center and very small. The...

While my Eminent Technology 2 Tonearm is getting rewired I sent my Van Den Hul MC10 Cartridge to Joseph Long for evaluation - luckily the diamond looked very good but the cartridge did have a bent cantilever and lots of metallic gunk. Joseph fixed her right up - here’s the porn (I don’t have...

So the ARC SP11 preamp has the following Input Impedance options:47 kOhms, 100 Ohms, 30 Ohms, 10 Ohms and 3 Ohms. According to ARC the 47 kOhm is for MM cartridges and the rest for MC. For my Shure V15V no problem - 47kOhm. But for my MC Van den hul its recommend 500 ohm or higher - so it goes...

Well I installed the new Mag Lev Platter on my SOTA Sapphire - reset the table per SOTA instructions - this however raised the platter significantly resulting in a need to raise/adjust VTA on the ET2. This seems like it should be a simple adjustment as this arm is designed for VTA adjustment...

Can someone tell me what the red circled gizzo is that goes between the air pump and the tonearm? I assume it’s a filter of some sort - if so shouldn’t it be changed on a regular basis? Pic borrowed from ebay….

So I have decided to catalog my LP collection - it’s my New Years Resolution and I am pretty sure it will take all year! Yesterday I started - so here is what I did - 1. enter artist and Title. 2. select master release 3. select my catalog number 4. select condition of media and cover 5. note...

I’m curious what others experience is on this. I tend to find R2R tapes on ebay, craigslist or FB Marketplace - probably something like 1 out of every 10 has a serious defect - here are some examples. A recent purchase of Hendrix - Are You Experienced - left channel about 70% volume of right...

My RT707 started “roughish” winding versus a nice tight straight winding. So I replaced the Pinch Roller and noticed some play on the shaft after tightening - maybe 1/16” - 1/8” Is this a problem? Should I add some washers to reduce the play? It does seem to be winding much better - but not...

Any opinion on this table? It would share duty with a Sota Sapphire Star, Technics SP10 and Thorens TD126MKIII.

I just watched a really crazy auction on the Bay. It was for a Hendrix Reel to Reel - Are You Experienced. The reel was a mess - someone colored the label and the box looked iffy - listed as untested and “acceptable” condition - which is poor. Well 2 bidders drove it to $425.00. Why no sense...