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I don't actually know when these things were first made. I'm told they're OK on the TD160, though I've never tried a puck on mine.

The "Stabilizer" that Thorens themselves sold was around 1.2 pounds!

I use Liquinox, not Alconox, since then I don't have to worry about undiluted particles. (The products are deemed functionally equivalent by the manufacturer.) It has a huge advantage over dish soap, namely it rinses very cleanly, which is why it is the standard product labs use for cleaning...

A bit of overkill for someone just getting into vinyl! In the old days many of us used to use dish soap at the tap for very dirty records, and a Discwasher for as-needed cleaning. The closest modern equivalent to the Discwasher is the Groovewasher system, but I don't know how easy their...

I think the moral of this story is: if you want to buy this receiver, buy it from somewhere you can return it. If you like it, your opinion is not necessarily wrong. If you dislike it, your opinion is not necessarily wrong.

I have all the components of the Beosystem 3300, the successor to this, except the turntable. The receiver has the best FM tuner of any receiver I've ever owned. But I'd be happy to part with it for only $10,000 To answer the question about Powerlink, it carries the line-level signals...

Perhaps; I was just scanning the reviews. The Startech seems to be identical to a sound card that Vantec/Vantech/Vanteq has been selling for at least 10 years, the Nba-200U, that has some teardown videos on youtube. It is based on the C-Media CM6206 chip, which looks very clever, but predates...

The Amaz. reviews suggest that these are not true 7.1 DACS, but simulated.

Some Infineon-based amps, mainly based on the 12070, have been discussed quite a bit in this forum. As their big drawback has been power, the MA5332MS is an interesting alternative. However, I think that amps have largely been solved like the DACs have been solved, and since manufacturers have...

You're lucky then. Our living room has two walls of glass, and no hope of extremely accurate sound, despite the fact that we're using a DAC that is nearly perfect despite its low price and urban-friendly(?) form factor.

Honestly, nobody wants to know about your cell reception, real estate holdings, mother's health, or hatred of cities and dongles, and I'm not sure why you raised them in response to Audionaut's interesting post or cavedriver's followups. This is an audio forum, and a thread about testing audio...

You have even more glass in that room than we do in our big glassed-in space; how do you deal with room effects on sound quality? (We've basically given up, just buy decent components and accept that they would sound miles better in a completely different space.) Aren't you in suburban...

The Radio Hat has its own Wikipedia entry, which is worth the read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_hat

The SL-Q300's mechanism is a wonderful, Rube-Goldbergesque (or Heath-Robinsonesque for those in the UK) arrangement. I expect the 303 uses something different, I can't visualize how the 300's mechanism could be fitted with a counter. I don't recall my thought process in buying the 300 (or...

I recently restored the SL-Q300 I had in grad school. (I can't post a photo, since it's in the vacation house.) I'd forgotten how much I like the automatic features. like the replay.

That is what you get when you feed a Dolby signal to a non-Dolby DAC. If you can't tell your source to downmix to Stereo, you can always get an audio extractor with this capability, such as https://a.co/d/9hZnzqN

15VAC power supply is an odd choice; I have boxes full of old power supplies, don't think any of them is in that ballpark.

I can't believe we were 30 posts in before someone commented on the stealthiness.

I used a Fiio D07 (upgrade version of the D3) for years to connect AV inputs to my stereo, It was fine to my ears, but it started to get a little flaky (I think because the case was so small, so heat built up) after a few years. I don't think the DACs that look just like the Fiio D3 but are...

Now get yourself a pair of the Yaxi earpads. The hype about them is all true, they are a big step up in comfort.