Mighty Favog
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5 minutes ago, OO1 said:
the Boron cantilever is 206$ , on Ebay , but I guess Sapphire is better .
I didn't choose the boron since I read that it really didn't match up with the quality of the original byrillium.
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Well, I think a switch was thrown on the back the pre-amp that converted the phone input to standard aux input. How that happened, I have no idea. But that cause wasn't found till after I pulled the turntable and hook it up to another system to rule out the phone in the first pre-amp. That second system is in another room. And as Arnold Guthrie once said "..rather than bring that one up, we decided to throw ours down." (talking about the 1/2 ton of garbage).
But when it was on the second system it didn't sound right. Lot's of static and dbx sounding dynamic range change even though I tried different catridge loadings on the pre-amp.
That tells me the suspension on the stylus cantilever is old and dried out but not enough to break yet. I removed the headshell/cartridge as one unit from the tonearm when I disassembled the TT so that might have been enough jostling to break the last straw even though the guard was protecting it and I didn't touch it.
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So, my turntable decided not to make any sound whatsoever anymore. Strange. I hadn't moved it or played any vinyl in months. But there it is.
I tried swapping cables, no good.
Used a different preamp. That let it make sounds but they were staticky and the gain sounded like it was using an old dbx decoding machine on a non-encoded recording.
I considered an outboard phono preamp, giving possibility that the phono preamp inside the McIntosh C46 went south. THEN buying decent interconnects to go with it (I use Kimber Hero's)
Then I touched up some soldier joints to be sure.
So, I put the table back on the old/main system. Put on a album I blindly grabbed off the shelf (good Lord.... Steve Forbert, Jackrabbit Slim playing "Romeo's Tune"). The stylus just skated towards the spindle like nothing was holding it back. Because nothing was.
The cantilever was pushed up and bent beyond usability. I very lightly touched it with my finger and the cantilever cam off in my hand.
Now....an original VN5xMR stylus is almost impossible to find but flee-bay did have an NOS Shure V15-xMR cartridge for $1,100. Uh.......no.
HELLO?? JICO??
Seeing that Shure discontinued the cartridge and stylus a long time ago, this was my next direction. Since beryllium was almost impossible to get for Shure to make the styli, and the closest Jico they had in performance was the Sapphire model, that's what I ordered.....for $380 shipped. OUCH!!!
In the mean time I have 2 spare setups on Yamaha headshells; An ancient Ortofon VMS-30 MkII that sounds more relaxed and a Stanton 888ss for vinyl in bad condition.
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If this makes any difference, it went something like: first roll = 4 on both dice, second roll = 1 on both dice, third roll on = 6 on both dice, fourth roll = 2 on both dice.
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47-years on the marriage.
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1 hour ago, Cricket said:
They are pending that's why I haven't bothered with the pics. Can someone help me read this I'm trying to figure out the year. U or N 🤔
Those are from 1975. CWO is Cornwall Walnut Oiled.
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Lorrie and I were rolling dice to see who gets the first roll/turn at a game of Yahtzee. We each rolled a single die and it came up with the same number 4X before we could start playing.
Now what's the chance of that happening??
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Here's a really good source for what you need. Just tell them what happened and they can take care of you.
BTW- I would order the woofers and mid diaphragms in pairs.
www.critesspeakers.com
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Uh oh, now it's deleated.
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36 minutes ago, wuzzzer said:
I don't know, the ad says potential buyers are welcome to audition them at the seller's home.
The part that got me was where he's said they're stained/clear coated and that's original. But clearly the labels say HBR.
So, either he doesn't know what he's doing or someone else didn't.
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I'd get em' but I don't need another pair.
https://dayton.craigslist.org/ele/d/sidney-klipsch-heresy-one/7510693027.html
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3 minutes ago, 001 said:
Based on the pictures of the Serial numbers in the Ad , these Heresy 1 Speakers were Made in 1984 .
Strange too with the hand written s/n instead of the Bates labeler.
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All right, I have a friend that bought a 73' VW Thing Type 181 that he wants an 8-TRACK radio for that also has blue tooth. Any ideas??
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Just got the price of what this thing costs to charter....$4,500/flight hour.
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4 minutes ago, tigerwoodKhorns said:
Ever get relieved when something sells?
Kinda, I have a pair of Technics R&B Series SB-7's that I bought new in 83'. Nowadays they're like hen's teeth and there was a pair locally for $200. Parts alone are worth twice that at least.
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Tweed burlap ??
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3 hours ago, RobertHurley said:
I also had very similar situation some time ago, and it took me a while to figure out why my credit score was changed. But luckily now, almost four month later the score is back to normal, and I'm happy because I need to fix my car, and it costs a lot
Robert, you say you DID figure out what happened??
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And to think my favorite place was Uno's but the only one left is in downtown Dayton. Impossible parking on the weekends and too much rush hour traffic during the week. They had one called the SeaDelico that I would KILL for.
....we still make goo-goo eyes at each other. 🤪
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On 5/12/2022 at 8:02 PM, Coytee said:
Mmmm I can smell it by just looking at that....
Do they have eat-in dining? Thinking of a place to take Lorrie for a date-night. It's about 20-minutes from us.
Forte's in Indiana for $1k
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