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  1. Grainger49

    power conditioning

    Oh, yeah! Accuphase makes excellent products. It just takes a little digging to see that they are using an additive/subtractive circuit rather than generating a completely new sine wave.
  2. Grainger49

    power conditioning

    I can't tell. They say, "waveform shaping technology" but that doesn't say a separately generated sine wave. It isn't clear to me. I understand, and share, your confusion on that point. However there is another quote, "The reference signal generator" which makes me think that there is a...
  3. Grainger49

    What's Spinning Tonight?

    This is funny, I just bought this one this morning on ebay. But thanks for the recommendation.
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    What's Spinning Tonight?

    This morning, ONDEKOZA, Taiko drums. They make me jump. Fascinating rhythms.
  5. Grainger49

    power conditioning

    I live in East Tennessee. There is a fair number of heavy manufacturing plants within the area, one that I used to work at as an EE. Such industry puts notches and spikes onto the line voltage. These, and harmonic distortions caused by uneven three phase loads cause all sorts of problems on...
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    What's Spinning Tonight?

    I have had 3 come through my listening room. One is in bad shape no matter what it couldn't be cleaned. I paid $29 for my copy and bought another for $11 for a buddy. Both of the last ones were pristine.
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    Custom Roksan Radius 5 clone

    As always OUTSTANDING! Where do you get stranded sliver wire?
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    Recent Concerts You've Enjoyed

    This has been a little while. Jerry Douglas in a small venue, the Bijou here in Knoxville. A great concert. Tickets about $29 each and I could have tossed a piece of paper at him and landed it. The only problem was that it was too loud. No one needs to amplify Bluegrass in a theater with...
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    At 11 pages any reply is a moot point. But I have to say that the Teres Cocobola TT is an all time favorite.
  10. Grainger49

    Custom Roksan Radius 5 clone

    As always, awesome work! Thanks for the post in my corner. (That will make others scratch their heads)
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    What's Spinning Tonight?

    This is a work of art in the Bluegrass/Dawg Music Genre, Edgar Meyer Unfolding. I only have it on LP; I don't know if it is on CD. But this is an incredible album. Edgar Meyer, Jerry Douglas, Be'la Fleck, Mark O'Connor and Sam Bush. This is the same line up as Strength In Numbers, Telluride...
  12. Grainger49

    What's Your Favorite Holiday Movie To Watch

    #1 A Christmas Story, a family tradition #2 Christmas Vacation, I've always had a thing for Beverly D'Angelo #3 Scrooged
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    The Star Trek lovers appreciation thread

    I'm an original Trekkie. I watched it in first run. In the past 5 years I saw an original Star Trek that I had never seen before. I don't remember the episode name, remember I'm old. Spock had his brain removed and it was being used for Climate Control on a planet where the women (called...
  14. Grainger49

    What's Spinning Tonight?

    Edgar Meyer, Unfolding. Great Bluegrass/Dawg Music!
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    How technical are you?

    Davey, Pretty technical here, I'm a retired EE. But I used to be an audio salesman before that. So I understand that many guys out there are not following. Looking at the above schematic, and I may have missed the tie point, the 0 point of the output transformer secondary is tied back...
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    The Sheffield Lab Drum & Track Disc?

    It isn't the whole album, just two versions of O-Daiko. But that is the best of the album, IMHO. But $150 for two versions of the same "song" is more than I will ever pay. I'll live with the CD.
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    What does being a good "tracker" mean?

    I have seen the Telarc 1812 album mentioned several times throughout this thread. The problem is that if it is mistracked a few times the album becomes damaged and the best cartridge in the world will sound distorted. So you need to keep a stock of them to try new cartridges on. Just my old...
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    The Sheffield Lab Drum & Track Disc?

    Sorry to sidetrack the thread but it is good information to hear.
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    The Sheffield Lab Drum & Track Disc?

    I have had an ebay search for it for the last 5 years. Only once did a "test pressing" not all the songs, come up. Thanks, I will keep looking.
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    The Sheffield Lab Drum & Track Disc?

    A personal question, did KODO, heartbeat every come out on LP? Loved the CD from first listening and when in Japan a decade back bought some more Taiko drum CDs. Thanks in advance.
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    What does being a good "tracker" mean?

    This will make you all crazy, make your head ache and your feet stink. Grab a favorite LP, a favorite brown liquid and relax and listen.
  22. Grainger49

    Flu Shots: Should you or shouldn't you.

    Sorry Steve! I got lazy. I should have read the very few posts in this thread. If it has over 4 pages I seldom read them all. Yes, the guidelines are a good thing to take into account.
  23. Grainger49

    What's Spinning Tonight?

    Not night yet but Fairport Convention, Gladys' Leap.
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    Flu Shots: Should you or shouldn't you.

    I'm diabetic. That means I can't fight off infections as effectively as most of you. So I get one every year, as advised by my GP and Endocrinologist. My wife is allergic to both wool and eggs. She gives me her shot every year since she should not take one.
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    Power . How much do we need...

    Of course, there is no way for me to wade through all 11 pages of responses. So I will give my standard answer. You need enough to drive your speakers, in your room (the larger the more power needed to reach a physical volume level) to the volume you like to listen to. No one else should tell...
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    What are your thoughts on anti-skating?

    Sparky, There was no intent to put words in your mouth. I must have misunderstood your post. Reading the text again, you did not say not to use anti-skating for pivoted arms, just to use one of the few SLT arms out there instead. I agreed that there are a number of factors that affect...
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    The importance of VTA, SRA and Azimuth - pics

    I have either killed this thread or it was dead when I posted. There hadn't been a post for 2 months when I read it and posted.
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    What are your thoughts on anti-skating?

    I believe that there are skating forces in pivoted arms. Therefore I also believe that some anti-skating force should be applied. There are so many arms out there that have it. It is not a myth, the key is in the execution of that anti-skating force. There have been many schools of thought...
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    The importance of VTA, SRA and Azimuth - pics

    At least a year ago I decided to set up anti-skating with a scope. I have read often that placing the stylus in the center of the groove indicates proper anti-skating. I went about this by playing a mono track on the Hi-Fi News test LP, I fed the right and left signals, after phono stage, into...
  30. Grainger49

    Cartridge Set Up

    I read the article by M. Fremer and consumed much of what he wrote. But, isn't there always a "but" I don't get the difference between VTA and SRA. If I have this right the VTA is the scribed between the plane of the LP and the center of the stylus shaft. So it is usually high, near but not...

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