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    McCurdy idler wheel

    I didn't have too much joy trying to dress my McCurdy's wheel. It felt like there was not so much a dent as a hard seam right through it. Since McCurdy's OFF position is a neutral with no contact, I expect parking dents are relatively uncommon. Of course the bigger problem was that the bearing...
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    Push Pull vs Single Ended (Bass)

    Plate amps? Where do you cross them over? That definitely obviates the need to worry about the low bass performance of your tube amp. They blend in ok?
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    Push Pull vs Single Ended (Bass)

    It's genuinely weird to write that about a stereo integrated. Maybe they carried that over from the stereo power amp blurb? I've gone back to that same page multiple times, and that phrasing has never suggested to me that they were adding both channels together. Very weird. I guess thanks? That...
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    Problems that seem to resolve themselves overnight. Why is my Dual 1009 suddenly working again?

    Environmentally sensitive intermittent connection somewhere I would guess. Does that model have a switch on the tonearm/cart output that connects to a cueing control? Some tables will mechanically mute the output from the arm until the arm is fully descended, could be a bit of corrosion/buildup...
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    Push Pull vs Single Ended (Bass)

    15W is pretty hefty for single-ended GU-50 output from what I've seen around. Triode or pentode? What do you mean by stacked OPTs? Are you running two opts per channel? Are the primaries and secondaries in series? I'm really confused by what is meant here. Cary touts that my 300B integrated...
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    Push Pull vs Single Ended (Bass)

    I'm genuinely struggling to wrap my head around how parafeed works. It seems, at least by my intuition that it doesn't work. Obviously does, but I don't understand the working principle. I've spent a bunch of time over the past week or so since the thread about the new Bottlehead Paradyne...
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    Push Pull vs Single Ended (Bass)

    this is kinda the permanent conundrum of the SETaholic. Single digit watts will get you Loud, and SET bass is more tuneful, but there’s a chunk of dynamic overhead that costs huge to get from any kind if single ended design, but, you seem to always lose some of that subtle shading with either...
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    Mellow Tone Kits: Anyone Have Experience with their Tube Amp/Preamps?

    Been pondering building the GU50s. But since i'd also need to add a pre, I wouldn't have the budget to keep my 300b integrated amp at the same time. So I'm concerned about how good these sound, as I've only ever traded up in my system so far. - Anyone have listening impressions? I read a bunch...
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    Plinth for Rek-O-Kut T12

    OOh! That's a keeper.
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    Best Turntable Record Player, Expert Advice to Choose

    But CD players aren't even relevant here.
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    Random 33.3 knowledge

    I'm thinking of it in terms of "sampling error" so to speak. A single 25k waveform exists inside of one degree of rotation. You're right, in steady state, it's just a slight pitch shift. Like, obviously we're talking about, for our purposes infinitesimally small differences, but it does remain...
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    Bottlehead releases an 805A monoblock amp kit

    I asked, in THIS thread because it’s very relevant to Bottlehead’s offerings, and specifically this very one and there’s no explanation on Bottlehead’s site. Which is quite something as they are also one of the only companies I’ve ever heard of to offer this topology commercially and declare it...
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    Bottlehead releases an 805A monoblock amp kit

    This might be weird timing in this thread, but, can anyone, maybe one of the Pauls, explain exactly what “parafeed” is? I feel like every couple years I dip my head inside of amplifier design and discover I never even really knew what I thought I knew before. 5k sounds too much for me right...
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    McCurdy CH-12

    For shits and giggles I did a coast down test. Cold oil in the bearing. I got four minutes and nine seconds from 33.3 down to stop.
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    Rek O Kut Rondine B-12 Turntable

    How is twenty dollars, before accounting for import taxes and duties, for a part that definitely cost pennies to produce “not bad”???
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