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Hi Wardsweb, and a VERY belated happy birthday. Please forgive me for using this method to intrude on you with an SAE question, as I have heard you are the subject matter expert. My question is about the early SAE Mark III amplifier as shown on my attachment. I understand this is not a...

Regarding an SME 3009 tonearm, how do you tell if the rubber coupling gasket has gone bad? TIA for any enlightenment,

Greetings to all: For a frame of reference, I am mostly an old fashioned 2 channel stereo guy, though I have dabbled in AV a tiny bit. My question may reveal my lack of knowledge in this area. Many years ago, Harman Kardon made a very expensive control amp (Preamp) called the Citation 7.0...

Did anyone go to this sale?

This FASCINATING! I am trying to learn and this helps.

LOL ! It takes more than that to embarrass me! I thought there was some unspoken agreement on AK to not mention the Bay by name. I have not put a cartridge on it yet, but I think I'm going to like it.

The Walker turntable was made in England, so could be

Jelco was my first guess. I couldn't find any jelcos that looked like this, though. I bet you're right, though. They made arms for so many turntables.

Hi: I recently bought a Walker CJ-55 on that website. The seller did not know what kind of tonearm is on it. I have looked it over pretty thoroughly and can't find any clues other than "made in Japan" stamped on the bottom. It seems to me like a pretty well made arm with adjustable...

Look Looks like Lafayette sk series to me .

I have no idea why my reply shows as bold blue font. No hidden message intended. Sorry about that.

How can I tell if a tape suffers from sticky shed syndrome?

Thanks for the reply, clinic-audio. I have not noticed the power transformer being very hot, but your comment that the sound would disappear because the HV is decreasing makes perfect sense. The unit works normally on aux, tape, and phono inputs. Am I correct in assuming a selenium...

For anyone still following, here's the latest on my mx110z issue: I received two 6AB4 tubes and installed one. At first, the signal came in loud and clear and it sounded great. After about 2 minutes, the signal faded. Same results with the other 6AB4, but it happened faster. I tried two...

Ariston RD-11?