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A Grateful Thread... And just in time for the Season. Music is a miracle, for sure. This Yule and Solstice, I think we can all be grateful for the work of the Mysterious N. Senada, who having an idea that a musical missing link existed within the Inuits of the frozen north, set off on an...

Old timers will remember that in the early '70s, ReVox advertised how their A77 came with a 'lifetime' warranty (sans heads). It sounded good on paper, for the consumer at the time, but no one back then understood that this meant the lifetime of the company, and not the machine. ReVox was...

From a transcribed conversation I had with Peter Aczel: Your Levine/Met recordings of the Ring sound a bit sterile because they were made in Manhattan Center (New York), which is an acoustically rather dead venue. In 1989, Max Wilcox produced a wonderful-sounding recording of the Mahler 5th...

From the Denon blurb, and on-line reviews, it appears that this design is, as you said, similar to some of their separate tonearms from the '70s. I had experience with the DA-307 (used on a DP-75 turntable section). The rubber damper was placed before the arm tube met the pivot bearings, which...

For five hundred dollars you get a lot to like. Much flexibility. Several monophonic options along with balance and individual channel selection to enhance a wide variety of LPs, both 'modern' and legacy. Many gain settings, which always comes in handy for those with multiple cartridges-- for...

It's easy to claim they 'make it up'. I'm sure I've said that. But as we delve deeper, we find that many, maybe most, really believe that they hear what they claim to hear. They are sincere, but you could say deluded. With that in mind they are not 'making it up' in the sense of lying to...

Actually, as a totally mechanical machine, the Z-100 was built pretty well. Brass and other stamped metal, not too much plastic to age-deteriorate. Of course you didn't want to take one apart, and really didn't need to for basic service, which meant changing the idler as needed (i.e., not very...

Bose won an initial judgement, overturned on appeal. The issue for the court was whether CU acted with malice in their Consumer Reports magazine review. The appeals court found that the wording in the CR review was vague, and likely not an accurate description of the loudspeaker's actual...

Generally, older record players work pretty well, and for a long time. My personal experience however is that anything from the '70s (and earlier) is likely going to need some sort of an overhaul. This could be anything from cleaning, re-greasing, replacement of idlers/belts for mechanical...

I think that, plus more. It always brings (or should bring) a personal sense of satisfaction whenever you build something that you can use in your daily life. Of course back in the nascent days of hi-fi, if you wanted something you most likely had to build it yourself. Ready-made gear was...

I don't know. Back in the day when your device was acting up (radio or television) you could easily pull the tubes and take them to the local Rexall. Insert each into the tester (for free), find the bad, and then the clerk would open up the cabinet door on the bottom of the tube tester, and...

May have been posted earlier, but anyone looking for close to original Dynaco design language should probably look here for DIY https://www.dynakitparts.com/shop/st-70-kit-120-vac/ and here for prebuilt https://www.getdynaco.com/tube-amplifiers/special-order/st-70-tube-amp The most...

A humorous 'hear for yourself take' on it all.

The game is changing to 'software as a service'... where you don't 'buy and keep' anything, but subscribe and then get updates. As an old timer I don't particularly like that model, but what I like or don't like is irrelevant, for sure. It is not just a Windows thing either. Red Hat (now IBM)...

MS is a typically 'mature' company, where (it seems) rigid committees whose primary interest flows from HR and not engineering, rules the roost. You can always count on the fact that MS has a 'vision' and that their vision is not necessarily tied to either consumer or corporate needs/desire...