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Ich weiss nicht. It just did it again. This is happening while I'm in the forum. Very strange. As other posts can testify this forum has been acting strange for a large number of people in the last few weeks.

Good heads up. Thanks Dodger.

Of course as soon as I post this the rest of it suddently appears. This has happened though, several times in the last 3 days.

Am I the only one whose main screeen shows only the Home Audio section? Everything elese seems to have disappeared.

Well howdee Mrs. Bee! How are you this fine sunny day? Well Im just fine there Opie, jusnen on my ways to gather up the last off the rhubarb to make a couple of homemade pies. But never you mind me how was your trip to the big city? Gollee Mrs. Bee, you never seen such sites. Why they got buildings thats taller than the coops silo, fancy new cars and the women-folk wear the most amazing clothing you ever laid eyes on. But the most amazing thing of all was this here Symphonee I done went to. Now what in tarnation is a Symphonee, Opie? Oh my Mrs. Bee, you go to this great building and inside is this meetin hall bigger in size than Uncle Calebs big milkin barn. There are hundreds of seats facin like rows of corn towards this large platform. Now these seats are filled with stuffing and lined with the finest velvet you ever set your eyes on. An up above, hanging from the ceiling are these big electric lights with hundreds of little pieces of shiny glass hanging from them. I think they call them Shadyleers, but they dont really provide much shade atall. Now pretty soon the big curtain goes up and there is the biggest band you ever done see. You wont believe what they got for instruments either. Why they got what seems like dozens and dozens of different shaped fiddles. They also got lots of funny looking instruments with names like Busooms, and Pickyloows, more trumpets and tubas and fifes than we have for the 4th of July parade, and way in the back are the biggest drums you ever did see. Now standing in front of them is this very small fellow and you can tell that for some reason hes really mad at the band because he starts shaking this little stick at them. Well like all decent folk, this doesnt sit well with the band and so they start blowing their horns, and playin their fiddles and banging their drums right back at him. Well you never heard such a sound. After a while though both sides get a little tired so they slow down and the music gets a little softer whilst they rest up, but pretty soon there right back at it again. While al this is goin on I takes a look around to see what the city folk think of all this carryin on, and that was mighty interesting too. Some folks has got their eyes closed like theyre sleeping but their heads keep goin up an down, and some of em are swinging their hands or tapping their toes. En sum of em even got these teeny tiny little glasses theyre looking through. I figure they must be trying to figure out who the little guy with the stick is so mad at. Well this goes on for the longest time, and when the caterwallin stops the folks just rise to their feet and start clapping and clapping. Lord a Goshen Opie if that isnt the most outlandish tale ever to come out of your mouth. If I didn know you were such a nice boy Id think you made the whole thing up. Oh no Mrs. Bee, you now I wouldnt tell a fib. You know after I figured it out an all I kinda got to liken it. Much better then our local band, the Hoboken Hillbillies. As a matter of fact while I was in the big city I done bought a couple of these here Symphonee records to play on the Victrola at home. Trouble is I dont know whitcha ones to be a buyin. I got me some from this feller named Beetletoven and another feller named Wagner (I think his first name is Pop), but Im a gonna need some more before I spend money on things I really dont know about. I think I'll go on over to Hope Holler, I heard the Klipsch boys knows a lot about this here stuff. While that sounds like a right good idea Opie, dont stay to long though, or youll miss out on my rhubarb pie. ______________________ So are we going to help out Opie or what?

Wow! These are all great repleis guys, couldn't begin to aknowledge all of them. At this point I envision lp's as a cheap way to build up a collection. Buying used I can get 100 lp's for the price of 5 cd's, and even if a certain amount of them are clunkers I'm still way ahead of the game. It's clear some upfront expenditures are in order, however, arto's treating solution and mayhaps vodka, Leo's record cleaner, new sleeves and probably upgrade the cartridge via the Shure trade-in fini mentioned in my TT Newbie thread. (By the way I suspect every member of this board belongs to the Chamber of Commerce-your solution to almost everything is to spend more money!) A couple of questions remain, though: How does one tell when a cartridge and/or needle is going bad? Tracking and anti-skating on my TT for the Shure V15 type 3 are both currently set at 1.5. The Shure website does not have the instructions for this type of cartridge so do these settings sound right to you? Is there some sort of list available online that I could use in hunting down old lps? On most of the lps the greatest amound of noise is on the first track. Is that normal? By the way the TT tonearm and cart are level, cartridge alignment is spot on, and the new rack I just built is also perfectly level (see FleXy Table thread in Updates and Mods for a picture!). I know some of what I raised in this thread has been previously posted on the Foruim, but after a thorough search, I still had questions, hence the post. I think I may not be the only one here new to, or getting back into, lps so I think it also serves an instructive purpose. Your responses couldn't be better on both accounts.

Just built one of these to join with several other members of the forum who have built them in the past. I was suprised at how well it looked when done. Didn't even bother to paint it. Here's a link to the site for details: http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/flexye.html I used 5/8 inch threaded rod and 3/4 inch MDF with a length of 24" and a depth of 16". Home Deport sells these sheets as 2'x4's so you can get six shleves out of two panels for about $13. Total project cost about $60 inlcudng drill bit, nut, bolts and rods. I did not use the recommended plastic or rubber washer, but when built this thing is VERY HEAVY so I don't think vibration will be a problem. For the feet I used plain rubber feet but I may drop some tiles or small pavers under them because my plywood floor under a rug is kinda bouncy. This would eliminate any bouncing needles on the TT. A couple of tips to share. I placed the holes for the rods 1 and 1/2" off the corners, taped all the panels together and drilled them all out at once. I believe this made setting them onto the rods much easier. Also, I used a tape measure to get all four nuts lined up pretty close, placed the shelve and then used a level to make them even. I used a complety level surface for initial construction and then only needed to make some minor leveling adjustments with the rack in place. Mods: you can also use acrylic, marble or 3/4 birch or oak panels if you wish to stain and poly. To my mind though the mdf will kill resonance more because, hey, that's what Klipsch uses to make our speakers. YOu can also buy steel tubing to put over the threaded rods, but if you think you'll be adjusting the shelves in the future, this won't work out to well. I also might consider drilling the holes oversize and placing cut pieces of thin rubber hose from an auto store over the rods and into the to dampen vibrations. The very large washers will easily cover the holes. You could also easily build a small panel into the back with drilled out holes to hide the cables and wiring. Good looks, cheap, sonically good and not hard to build (3-4 hours tops). What more can I say. Oh, yes, saw something very similiar in a high fi shop a couple of weeks ago for $400.

Alan, please see my snap, crackle pop post. Thanks.

Ok, as some of you may know I am new to this lp and turntable stuff after about 30 years away from it. Interesting so far, but one thing is driving me crazy, it's that snap crackle, pop I get on every friggin record. Now the TT is s decent but not audiophile and it does have a really good Shure cartridige and appears to be adjusted properly for tracking etc. I've wiped down several of the 25 or so lp's I have with a mixture of filtered water, dentured alcohol and a few drops of kitchen soap, but still with the noise. So what is this all about: A) Dirty Records worn out records C) worn out needle D) All of the above. If D then how the hell do I determine what is what and what can be eliminated. Would lightening up the tracking help, etc. (By the way I am not talking about skipping, rumble etc. just the rice krispies thing-none of these lps by the way has a serious skip on them) By the way my initial impression is that classical music goes very well with vinyl, much more rounded/liquid although on most of them it seems I'm sitting a few seats farther back in the theater than I'm used to. On rock/pop the message is more mixed, some I like on lp's but most of it would be better played with cds. I have only one very losely definined "jazz" album Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall so I can't make any statements about jazz as yet.

Dodger, they did Fhart, Fhart Fhart auf dem autobhon? What a hoot of a song. Very cool.Another one to add to the collection.

Clu that is such a hoot. Soemthing from your childhood or a recent purchase. Well recorded? Genre? etc.

That's my boy! Although his hair is usally standing straight up. It's the electricity you know.

Sorry Colter but those were the German Doublemints, Schotzie and Helga. Didn't get their phone number, though, did you?

Craig, once again you are my hero! Yup there was no hum when the TT ws not hooked up, so I grabbed some RCA connectors from Rat Shack on the way home from work, cut off the old ones and hooked up the new ones and wallah. no hum, great sound. Thanks again. Guy, nice interesting site! While I'm at this tt newbie thing answer me this. I have about 20 lps and some sound great but others while detailed come out at a much lower volumne. Is this normal, indicative of wear, compability with cartridge, type of vinyl, whatever?

MDenen, the TT RCA cable was running form the TT to the low mag on the amp and the rca cable for the cd player was hooked into the tape input on the same amp. I was moving the TT to a new spot, forgot to turn off the amp. The TT RCA cable dragged over the top of the CD RCA cable and instantly there was a loud humming sound. It doesn't show up on Mag 1 or the Tape inputs, only on Mag2, worse on low, less on high. The right speaker sounds much worse then the left. I think the 4 12AX7a's (not sure of tube numbers, amp is upstairs) run the phono section so I tried moving them around with no joy (don't have any spares). Struck me as strange too because the cd RCA cable is a good shielded cable but the TT cable is the thin cheap stuff. There's a lot of wires back there so maybe something else screwed it up but I happened to be looking at the back of the amp and sawy the calbes cross just as the hum started. OH, and the grounding wire was attched at the time. I mean this is a very loud serious hum, not you're normal background hum.

My pleasure. Sorry it took so long to get it to you. Not bad for just talking about music. So come on down to.....

Congratulations! Sounds like a very nice suprise. You may want to look over a thread in General last week, I think it's called "Monster Power" about line conditioners. Most of us could tell no little or no difference in audio. Maybe the deal is to wire directly like you did. Very interesting. My lord, a 900 watt sub, can't even imagine what that sounds like when it's cranked up.

Arto, I'm sure your right about direct drive, but I'm not even sure if I will build up a record collection and not just go back exclusively to cds, so for $40 bucks I get to try out lp's again with a decent el-cheapo TT with a decent cartridge. If I stick with it I can always get something better after I buy all th other junk (cleaners, brushes etc.) that go with this apsect of the hobby. The Shure deal really sounds like a good thing. fini. You are the maestro! I almost "poped" my britches when I first read it. No wonder Henry Watkins had to take himself off to Australia for a month. Poor man reads your stuff and just despairs. On a much sadder note, I managed to blow out the phono stage on my just Craig rebuilt Scott 299. I was shifting the TT and forgot (and I never do this) to turn off all tha amp before moving it. The RCA cables for the phono and the CD touched momentarily and a horribly loud humming sound erupted from the amp. Tried switching tubes around but no joy. At least the Tape circuit didn't blow so I can still use it for cd's until it makes another trip to Craig.

Welcome back to your favorite place to share music with your fellow forum members. Last week saw us continue to grow and even lead to several suggestions in the realm of ambient music. Pretty cool stuff. Rules are simple, just addthe name of individual, group, name of album, type of music (cd,lp etc.) and style (rock, jazz) as best you can. Comments are welcome. My suggestion for this week is: Bob Dylans' "Blood on the Track", CD, folk 1st recorded in 1974 a Japanese release recorded by Sony and distributed through Columbia has absolutely stunning sound quality. You'd think it was recorded yesterday. Has several of Dylan's better known numbers including Tangled up in Blue and Shelter from the Storm. So what's your flavor of the week.

Thansk again Craig. I did exactly as you said on the Scott and it works perfectly. On my SS it needs the high setting but know that I know what I'm doing I can adjust as the situation and gear warrants. fini, thanks for the heads up on the replacment needle. However, I went to the the Shure website and couldn't find any info on this exchange program. Would have also liked a cartridge fact sheet so I could check alignment etc. Where'd you find the info?

More then likely Scotto, but I don't have the numbers. I overheard someone say 3700 or something like that. Sorry that's all the info I ahve. Didn't really look them over because they were so out of my price range.

Hey Gary, don't worry about it. You, like me, are not the technically inclined on this Board. Just last week I tried to help a fellow out to change a single light bulb on his amp. Don't tell me how but I got it wrong! Just how many thebes does it take to change a light bulb anyway? (sounds like a future thread) Besides Gary you compensate in other ways. It's my understanding you make a real mean NRBQ.

Clu, rom wha't you've mentioned before it sounds like this diggs person would be a worthy dditon. Have you tried an email?

Where are all these little crackles and pops coming from. Are lp's made of an extract of corn husks or leftover Rice Kripsies?

The deal sounds pretty good, although I had a Yammie receiver that did not match up well with my Kg's, others here have had much different experiences. The Denon I now own sounds much better. I wonder if this is a two-way street or just for the American market. What I mean is will the Japanese now discover the joys of Klipsch in their own back yard. I've been to Japan and like the people. Would like to see some of them checking into the forum.