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    Hello From Kentucky

    My GF just moved to Kentucky. Will visit your state for the first time next month.
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    What The Heck? NASCAR Racing on the streets of Chicago July 1 & 2nd?

    I'm in Chicago this weekend and the next week - flew in from Brussels. The weather is crazy. I'd liked to have seen some of the action but it's really bad out there...
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    Anybody see Jupiter and Venus close together last night 3-1-23 ?

    Brussels, with phone. Shakey hands.
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    What is the white coating on the transistor?

    Correction: paste on the top transistor. Paint on the bottom one
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    What is the white coating on the transistor?

    Heat paste. Should be applied very very thin to bridge any imperfections between transistor package and heatsink. When done correctly, it improves heat conductivity.
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    Thorens TD 124 Slow to Turn on Strobe Lamp

    No, not in series. There is virtually no current running through a neon bulb, so the motor would not be able to run. From the drawing, looks like it's tapping off from the middle of the motor coil. So in parallel with half of the coil.
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    Thorens TD 124 Slow to Turn on Strobe Lamp

    Indeed. I was lucky, it slipped without damaging the pins or holes. I stopped using it once it happened. I documented the fix.
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    Thorens TD 124 Slow to Turn on Strobe Lamp

    It slipped on mine, after working good for many years. The cause was that the grease in the switch part was gunked up so bad that the band slipped and the switch didn't move when the lever was moved between speeds. But the symptoms were different than what's reported here.
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    Thorens TD 124 Slow to Turn on Strobe Lamp

    There is no relay. My table's switch looks like @tnsilver 's one. I have a very early MK II. Yours seems to be from later production, or an aftermarket replacement? It almost has to be the that part between the speed rotator and the switch. Maybe that iron cable that connects both doesn't move...
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    This is The Sansui Sound - LP

    It is. But it has a double meaning in Dutch, and they are alluding on that too. Toekomstmuziek is also "something that may happen in the future" (a bit like pipe dream, but more positive)
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    This is The Sansui Sound - LP

    Philips / Polygram also made an unbranded version. It was a present in case you bought something else than a Sansui :). "Uw toekomstmuziek"
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    Your Last Concert (or two)

    Front 242 at Cold Waves 2022 Chicago.
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    I cannot figure out this Dual 1009. Please help

    long story short: - leave the arm cabling alone - cut the audio cable as close as possible near the mute switch, if both channel's grounds are twisted together. Else leave them in place. - cut any solder bridge that DUAL placed between grounds, at the mute switch if you cut the audio cable...
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    I cannot figure out this Dual 1009. Please help

    DUALs were factory made according to Europe DIN schema. When imported to the USA, the DIN cable was replaced by Phono cables. But the insides were not altered. For a DIN cable, both signal grounds and the table grounds are coupled together at the table. Usually, the shielding of left and...
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    I cannot figure out this Dual 1009. Please help

    Ping if you want to fix it.
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    Realistic NOVA 8 in Bad Shape

    It may be the photo, but it looks like the foam surrounds of a few drivers are damaged?
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    I cannot figure out this Dual 1009. Please help

    60 Hz hum or a mechanical (motor or platter induced) one? There's a solution for DUALs that are imported in the US and that that have a 60 Hz hum.
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    Bose loudspeakers and double blind tests

    Back to the first post. There is a reason why they do well: they sound well. I'm on audiokarma for 10 years now. Bose sounds good.
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    Subsequent copies of downloaded music?

    What's more common is that your download contains a fingerprint, so its copies can be traced back to your purchase.
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    What Record Are You Hearing Now?

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    found repair buttons of my Thorens td 124 back

    While I was fiddling with my turntable a few days ago, I wondered where I had stored the photos I took in its early days. I had torn down and revised the motor and the arm, worked on the axle, replaced the capacitor, set the eddy current brake. I didn't find things back on my laptop or backups...
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    Your Lamps/Lights for the dark…

    Or the outside light
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    What was the the last audio-related item you purchased?

    NAM C 545BEE, about a year ago. 2nd hand. When I bought a new laptop, I had lost my last method to play CDs.
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