Randy Bey

here's a schematic.

my speakers are about 18' apart. The little things holding my speaker wires up are rebar spacers from Menards, $.11 a piece, the best $1.10 I spent on tweaks so far. Not sure if they help, but they look neat.

Howlin' Wolf -- "This is Howlin Wolfs new album. He Doesn't Like it. He didn't like his first electric Guitar either."

The trick setup for tt's is a wall shelf - the idea being that the wall does not vibrate like the floor does. Rega sells a shelf but I think it's pricey -- $300 or so. You could make one yourself from parts from Home Depot so darn easy that you could avoid even using a saw (the screwdriver would still be required) -- just get a couple really massive triangular shelving arms at least 16" deep and have them cut a 5/8" piece of MDF to fit. Bet you would walk out for a lot less than $50. If you have a cement floor vibration may not be an issue. Then a floorstander would make sense.

of all the TTs listed here I like the Denon on ebay the most -- and you could get it for a very good price. Don't forget the cartridge! you might get lucky and it will come with a decent one, otherwise an Ortofon or Grado can be had new for around $30-$60.

source before replacing existing parts. I don't know if your integrated has a phono section but if it does, then a TT is going to give you more in terms of an upgrade than simply replacing existing stuff with other stuff that provides the same function.

guess the Beat Farmer police got to it (less than 24 hours later!)

do you have any records?

My fav: Beat Farmers "Happy Boy"

This new digital camera has a 'stitch' mode that enables me to take three pictures and 'stitch' them into something incomprehensible and dizzying.

Not really rigma, we just like to type a lot. But we value your opinion. In fact, I think you've changed my mind. I'm going to Home Depot to buy some lamp cord right now.

breaking in cables between the pre and power amps is hard to do w/o volume. I think even with low volume and pink noise like Guy suggests the electron flow is initiated. If the speakers aren't in a main room just leave. Otherwise if possible have speakers face each other at a close distance, run them out of phase, and hope the sound cancels.

run 'em for a couple of days with or without the speakers running. This may sound silly but you need to chase the evil anti-music electrons out of the cables and replace them with happy, musical electrons (they have little smiley faces on their sides). At least, that's what I understand. There is some quantum level stuff going on there that uses words like smiley face to describe same. Important point is not to listen to them during the breakin, lest you are accused of simply becoming accustomed to the sound.

Eric, you haven't been around much then. In the back of Relix magazine, a magazine for deadheads, there has been an advertisment for large "ears" that fit over your own ears and make you look even geekier than a Mr. Spock fan at a star trek convention, or a cross between that and a chain-saw murderer ala Texas Chain Saw... Their claim is exactly what you reference, although the product has not been received by the audio community so far.

something is profoundly wrong with your digital camera. The pics outside have some weird green stuff where the snow is supposed to be. Could it be some green/white deficency?

Hey Cut Throat, how are the Auris's breakin in? Been playing them a lot? I think it's possible they could become a great speaker.

PS I'm 6'4" and 275 lbs so I guess I'm bigger than all of you....

well, at home I have cable so it's fast. But on the road I have to contend with dial-up access which sucks. I'd curse you from hotel rooms across America. But now I've gotten a new job that doesn't require travel, so I'm cool with the fat content. Fire away!

Please don't feed the trolls.

sorry, saw your response minutes after I bought that SME. I read that the III will handle MC with an additional headshell weight. I don't have a MC right now, actually I do, an Ortofon X5 MC but it's on a TT that's sitting on a shelf right now...

1970 -- Bass ala Cerwin Vegas 1975 -- 360 degree tweeters with 50K extension 1979 -- Klipschorns ... 2001 -- SET 2003 -- vinyl today -- music

I am very interested in the tonearm. I am already watching an SME 3009 II on ebay. Allan, given your interest in SPUs I can see you not being interested. For those of us without TD124s, though, this may be good...

I just tuck the klipschorn under my arm and run it up the stairs.... can't carry both of them that way, the stairwell isn't wide enough.

nitty gritty 1.0. about $200 new and the best darn thing there is.