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Good point well made. You will see a requrement to deliver 13A at less than 100 mA drop. Call me picky but that supplies (let's be mean and set max current at 1000 mA drop ie 12 A) 12x250 V = 3 kW to...

Hmmm. In order to provide a mains lead with electrical equipment it must confirm to BS standard BSI 1363. If you haven't read and understood BSI 1363 you don't sound to me like an open minded person...

Well of course they'll make a difference. He's spent 1400 quid so they've GOT to make a difference.
Tell me how a bit of wire plugged into a filthy old 13A socket connected to a plastic cabled ring...

Now that a lot of UK electricity is made in France replacement of cables back to source is likely to be rather expensive.
I don't believe mains cables make a blind bit of difference-someone...

After a number of us have (quite rightly) slagged off a lot of the EBay vinyl crowd this guy seems a decent sort
http://www.dancevinylonline.com/
Good communication, packaging and records as...

Not quite 24 hours in the dreaded gloop but I got bored. These coins are copper plated steel (don't know how thick the plating is). I think there may be some frosting of the surface but it's hard to...

Alex,
I believe it is because you actually listen. I'm listening to old crappy worn out vinyls from EBay and can filter out all the Rice Crispies but still hear wonderful things - a worn out Decca...

Here you go....
Difficult to get the resonant frequency into the audible range but I suppose that doesn't matter.
Like your setup BTW - had similar TT/arm/speakers in the 70's but gave them...

Oh God! I suppose with this and Cillit Bang I'll be asked to take my (totally correct) HiFonoclastic opinions elsewhere.

Alex,
I completely agree re psycho-acoustics. We know in our hearts that mumbo-jumbo doesn't really work Special mains cables, one-way interconnects, solid silver wiring etc. etc. are all bunk. Of...

Nasty thought - at least you don't have to go to WallMart !
Good luck, keep us posted.
Steve

As mentioned above it is clever stuff and probably contains oxalic acid as a detartrant. Neither copper nor vinyl is soluble in oxalic acid. Copper is soluble in concentrated nitric acid but vinyl...

Vinyl is a thermoplastic. If you heat it sufficiently it will retain any deformation you put into it (be that flattening or anything else) when it cools because it will flow a little. If you don't...

I've got two carts in headshells for my 1210 (standard cooking arm)
One is a Stanton 500 mk3 with an 820 DE elliptical stylus - an astonishingly good combination, the other is an AT125LC. I...

Bearing in mind that sand is crystalline silica I poured a cupful onto one of my mint wideband Decca SXLs. It didn't improve the sound noticeably.

Mock ye may but work it does!
I'm sure I don't have to tell you that vinyl isn't soluble in much at all -
Excellent resistance (no attack) to Dilute and Concentrated Acids, Alcohols, Bases,...

Give it another dose (and yourself, of course) then play it with a cheapo cart as soon as you've buffed it. You'll find an amazing amount of shite on the stylus first time, then it will be silent and...

Does the problem move with the valve? If not could be the pot or cathode bias resistor.
Steve

I assumed that would be understood.
CD's drove me to wine - it was the only way I could make them sound OK.
That was forty years ago since when I've consumed more units of alcohol than HMG reckons...

I expect I'll get my tone arm formally broken over a Moderator's knee for this but ....I bought some VG+ (ie unplayable) LPs from EBay.
I've got two cartridges for my 1210, a Stanton 500 which...

Steve
We mustn't hijack a 'For Sale' thread or the beak will tell us off but I'm surprised.
EH are well reviewed by 'em as claims to tell t'difference (note deferential use of YorkSpeak here)
eg...

Try these
http://cgi.ebay.fr/Matched-Quad-ElectroHarmonix-KT88-tubes-Valves-6550-EH-/310331331362?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item4841305322#ht_3815wt_962
$100 for four matched electroharmonix...

With some mods to get the bias on the 6SN7s up the 100B is a very nice amp - and bearing in mind I worked on the STA25 I have a bit of experience.
The biggest improvement is swapping the Chinese...

I have acquired a bulk pack of NOS USSR 6N8S valves, direct equivalent for 6SN7 or ECC32. They appear to date from the late 60's.
The pack was unopened and all the valves have the same batch number...

Do you have an original STA25? I did the QC on all of these for Arthur Radford and would like to know the S/N
Steve