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The Aux1/Phono switch is a bit bizarre, but a separate Tape Monitor switch/button isn't that uncommon and in fact necessary when the source selection knob also decides what goes to the tape outs.
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The knobs for my old radio came. Now it looks complete. I also got a new magic eye tube and its much brighter than the old one. I'm pretty happy with it now.
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TomR posted:The knobs for my old radio came. Now it looks complete. I also got a new magic eye tube and its much brighter than the old one. I'm pretty happy with it now. Very cool, you should post more pics.
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I just got a straight arm Yamaha P-750 to replace the lovely Sony USB TT I got for free. I decided to take off the cart it came with and replace it with an AT120E. After messing with the protractor, I decided to just say 'gently caress it' and calculated out how many millimeters the stylus tip has to be from the base of the headshell by subtracting the tonearm length (pivot point to end) from the published effective tonearm length. Sounds ok so far. Is this recommended? It doesn't even look like I have to worry about calculating with the offset angles and stuff - yamaha set it up so that the stylus tip lines up with the centerline of the tonearm. Edit: Also, how much can I trust that red LED that lights up when the speed is supposedly locked in at 33 1/3 or 45 RPM? Do I need to double check with a strobe? Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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About 9 months ago I picked up a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon turntable and was enjoying the hell out of it with no issues. Then maybe a month ago I started to notice a hum in the left audio channel almost every time I turned on my receiver, but every time I was able to eliminate it by readjusting the ground wires. Up until about a week ago, that seemed to do the trick. Then I ordered a new Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge to replace the stock 2M Red, and I noticed when I was trying to align the new cartridge that the hum was still coming through the left audio channel, but I couldn't get it to go away. After a lot of playing around, I thought I had isolated my receiver (an old Superscope) as the problem, specifically the phono stage. I took that as an excuse to spend some extra money on a good preamp since I had been meaning to do that for a while anyway and figured that'd be the end of it. The preamp came yesterday, and I plugged everything in where it needed to go (preamp into the aux input as well), and I noticed the hum was still there in the left channel. At that point I noticed one end of the ground wire on my RCA cable looked a little bit frayed in one spot, so I bought a new RCA cable with a ground wire attached. I just replaced the RCA cables, and the hum is still there in the left audio channel. I'm guessing now it has to be something related to the turntable itself, but I'm really not sure of what I'm looking at when I open it up. Does anyone have any idea what the issue might be?
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Whodat Smith-Jones posted:About 9 months ago I picked up a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon turntable and was enjoying the hell out of it with no issues. Then maybe a month ago I started to notice a hum in the left audio channel almost every time I turned on my receiver, but every time I was able to eliminate it by readjusting the ground wires. Up until about a week ago, that seemed to do the trick. Then I ordered a new Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge to replace the stock 2M Red, and I noticed when I was trying to align the new cartridge that the hum was still coming through the left audio channel, but I couldn't get it to go away. Two thoughts, ideally you'd need a scope, but a multimeter may work. Is there voltage? (use the AC setting on a multimeter) on the preamp outs with the debut unplugged (from the wall) and the preamp disconnected from the amp/receiver (so the only AC connection in the chain is the preamp's power source)? If not, it could be a ground issue working it's way back from elsewhere in the setup. If it's still there, does the hum vary depending on whether you're touching the tonearm or moving it around? The carbon is a really simple thing-- and about all that's left is a bad connection or flaky wire going from the cart to the interface box with the RCA plugs. If you think it's that, you've got a year warranty so make Pro Ject fix it.
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I just picked up a Kenwood KR-V87R receiver from a friend. It had been abused by college students for years and needs quite a bit of cosmetic work, but apparently it was TOTL in '88-'89? Can anyone confirm that? From what I can find it is 2x80WPC, not sure about the surround channels. It has the original version of Dolby Surround as well as a built-in spectrum display and defeatable 7 band EQ, plus two composite video in/out channels.
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Had a pretty awesome find at a estate sale this weekend. Well two car loads of stuff, 3 reel to reel decks, a couple of quad receivers, but this was the main prize. A Harman Kardon citation I,II,III set, pretty much a barn find, found it in the shed in the backyard. I mean it even had two dead lizards in the box along with some hatches eggs of some kind. The set up needs some work and a few tubes have been damaged. Since I don't have a variac I'll take it to the local shop to get it tested.  Also two pair of Bozak speakers, a set of 301FDs and some 401 Rhapsody's. Both pair of speakers sound great and are perfect match for low wattage set ups. The mids on of the the 401s as seen has some paint peeling off, but doesn't impact sound quality at all. 
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TooLShack posted:Had a pretty awesome find at a estate sale this weekend. Well two car loads of stuff, 3 reel to reel decks, a couple of quad receivers, but this was the main prize. Now the only question is: what did you pay for all of that?
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Jun 11, 2014 05:56
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Just those pieces around 250 bucks, bought a bunch more stuff like just sealed reel to reel tapes and other odds and ends that will be nice to resale.
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God drat.
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Vintage Hifi Porn: http://goldenageofaudio.blogspot.com/
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something_clever posted:Vintage Hifi Porn: this guy takes nicer photos  http://www.vintageaudioonline.com/  
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That's pretty fantastic.
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BANME.sh posted:this guy takes nicer photos Aaaannnd I want that.
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Look at this haul I got for free! 2014-223 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr Classic rock, disco and country mostly. I haven't finished sorting it and I don't know a lot of the names. I ended up with an AT-LP60 I got on sale. I know it's not a good table but it works while I look for something good used.
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Just set up my new Pro-Ject Debut Carbon. Looks very nice, setup was easy, and my records sound great! The Speed Box works as it should, too. Seems expensive for what it is, but it does win the convenience points. Unfortunately I'm getting some consistent buzzing when I use my RCA audio cables (which work fine with other gear). It's connected to a new Onkyo NR-626 with a built in phono preamp. I noticed the RCA audio cable included with the turntable included a ground wire. When I use that cord, the buzzing goes away... but it's not long enough to reach where I can set up my turntable. Ideally I could find a ~12 foot cord with a ground wire, but I really only see one on Amazon, which seems odd. As someone who knows next to nothing about power and the like, is there another way I could ground it? Or extend the ground wire?
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Pretty much any wire will work for the ground. Go to the hardware store and get some cheap wire and maybe a couple of spade connectors for the ends.
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TomR posted:Pretty much any wire will work for the ground. Go to the hardware store and get some cheap wire and maybe a couple of spade connectors for the ends. Oh wow, I have about 15 feet of speaker cable left over. It would work if I just wrapped the ends around each of the posts? If not I could just drop by a hardware place for the spade connectors. Thanks, good idea!
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Yeah that will work.
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TomR posted:Yeah that will work. It sure did. Thanks a bunch!
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Hello thread. Picked up a full set of vintage Technics (SE-9021, SU-9011, ST-9031) blind (mad) for $125, or 74 quid in superior UK pounds. I'm kind of a fan of Technics stylings and this is a fairly rare set, their top of the line aimed at non-professionals at the end of the 70s.  That's what it looks like in good condition. Safe to say that mine do...not look like that. Their outsides are incredibly corroded, quite a few scratches on the fascia. They look like they've been sitting in a garage for twenty years. The power amp is in the worst condition, having an open grill top for ventilation. Or, alternatively, a tempting prospect for spiders and general corrosion to sneak in. I'm halfway between moving back from university with my stuff including camera, tools and a few other hifi goodies to post here, so apologies for the not perfect photos. This is the inside of the power amp as it arrived:  I've taken all the fascias off blah blah and done some polishing, but that's the last thing I'll be taking photos of when I've put it all back together. I've done some painstaking earbud cleaning and compressed air and it now looks like this:  Powered on after rewiring the dodgiest looking plug. All the bulbs in the tuner and power amp are off (no surprise): have sourced replacements and are waiting for them. One of the vu-meters is broken, the right channel is funny even after a bunch of DeOxit and contact cleaner gel - not on at low volumes, and a perpetual crackle at around 9 O'Clock on the volume. However, it does sound great still. Really, the condition is surprisingly good. I'm going to take the volume pot off and open it up to see what's what. At the very least I should have a good photo of a working, polished tuner soon enough. Can't wait to hook speakers up to it (they'll be making the trip home by the end of June.) Bonus photo of the cleaned up pre-amp:  Check out the neat mechanical poles for changing the inputs.
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Really cool looking stuff! I'd like to invest in classic hifi but I'll wait until I live in somewhere else than a tiny student apartment.
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I have an Acoustic Research ES-1 turntable and the pulley has started slipping on the drive shaft. The motor has a smooth shaft and the hole through the pulley also looks smooth so I kind of question how it never slipped before, but it didn't. I did a little googling and found a replacement pulley for sale (http://vinylnirvana.com/ar-mod-detail-page/ar-upgrade-replacement-3345-pulley-detail/), but the description sounds like bullshit to me and it costs $60. So before I drop $60 on it, is this something I can maybe fix with a little dab of glue where the shaft and pulley touch?
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My strobe light is being dodgy: It only stays on for a second or two then flickers out. It comes back on when I blow on it, is it likely just a poor connection that I should check out more thoroughly? Or will the light itself be crap and need replacing
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If it's working at all it's probably a bad connection.
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I really like record players and I have some records already. Looking at getting this one http://www.amazon.com/Technica-AT-LP60-Automatic-Driven-Turntable/dp/B002GYTPAE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403201383&sr=8-1&keywords=turntable. It has good rating but I would like some goon input. Thanks a bunch!
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That thing is pretty cheap, but if you listen to a record maybe once or twice a week (super casually) that will get the job done for you. If you ever want to upgrade in the future, you'll have to buy a whole new turntable as you can't replace the cartridge in it. The AT-LP120 is a better option if you see yourself starting any kind of serious record collection, and has technical specs that compare well against more "pro" turntable that cost $100-200 more. BANME.sh fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jun 19, 2014 |
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I have the AT-LP60 and it works, but it's very light and skips easy. I can't say much for sound quality as all my records are old and used, but the ones that seem like they are in good condition sound fine to me. If I hadn't run into a pile of records for free I would have waited until I found a decent used turntable.
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BANME.sh posted:That thing is pretty cheap, but if you listen to a record maybe once or twice a week (super casually) that will get the job done for you. If you ever want to upgrade in the future, you'll have to buy a whole new turntable as you can't replace the cartridge in it. Thanks I will save up a bit more and get this one. I have quite a few records and would use it pretty often.
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I guess this is pretty vintage, Soviet citizens used to cut music into x-rays to get past bans. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bone_music_soviet_era_bootleg_records_of_banned_rock_and_jazz_pressed_on_x
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It's making the circuit again but old news. There are two modern flexi plants in the US, pirates press and a weird one in Florida.
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Finally got my Marantz 2230 back from the repair guy and was gonna pay my boss for it on Tuesday. Got it home and it's not my 2230. Serial number is in the 10,000s instead of 4,000s and the faceplate isn't engraved.  Edit: the repair guy cannibalized the engraved faceplate one to make this one work. I'm going to buy it too for $200 total instead of $150 for just the late model. How hard of a project will it be to put the working guts in the old one's case? atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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atomicthumbs posted:Finally got my Marantz 2230 back from the repair guy and was gonna pay my boss for it on Tuesday. Is it the same button/knob layout? If so, just swap the face plate. It should just be four bolts and the brass retaining thing behind the treble knob. It will take a minute tops.
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Been a vinyl collector for just a little while now. Quick question: How often should I replace the cartridge on my turntable? Does it wear out and if so how quickly?
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You can replace just the stylus, not the whole cart usually (unless you want a different/better cart). The answer is it varies with the stylus in question, but you can usually tell when it starts to sound lovely.
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Dogen posted:You can replace just the stylus, not the whole cart usually (unless you want a different/better cart). The answer is it varies with the stylus in question, but you can usually tell when it starts to sound lovely. Oh, yes, I meant the stylus, thanks. This one here is an AT-70L, and was represented to me as being a higher mid-range stylus about two years ago. I've since played a couple-three hundred scratchy records. Can't say I can really detect any deterioration at present.
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Still got a lot of life left in it probably. From looking at the spec sheet it doesn't seem like a great cartridge, but if you are happy with it there's no reason to run out and replace it.
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Dogen posted:Still got a lot of life left in it probably. From looking at the spec sheet it doesn't seem like a great cartridge, but if you are happy with it there's no reason to run out and replace it. Not great, eh? Probably been discussed but what stylus and/or cartridge would be good for my old Technics SL-B2?
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You'll get a good couple thousand hours out of anything diamond, sapphire is more like a couple hundred.
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