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Every time I see him talking on telly I get a warm feeling in my tummy .... I've just listened to 'Solar Flares' from 'Ruth is stranger than Richard' . It just increases my need to get all of the albums he's ever recorded and listen to them regularly . More soon on this subject . Need to dig out 'Th...

Did a fair bit of fiddling with anti-skate last week . It's getting much clearer how the whole thing should sound . It's all about getting the same level of dynamics and 'downward dynamic range' ( holding small detail during loud passges ) on the two channels . I'm just listening now to 'Three of a ...

Apolgies for having a sub-standard vinyl set-up at Owston .
The deck was running significantly fast ( thanks Chris ! )
..and the anti-skate was out a fair bit ( thanks Nick ! )

I shall be better prepared next time

Best wishes Steve !

Vinyl and WAD amps - sounds like a proper system !
Good to have you here

It's no point asking me what's trendy

Just playing 'Time Further Out' ( Brubeck ) . Very very nice - may be the best I've heard it - I'm really sold on the 'Guru set-up' from Allen Wright's site as mentioned ( see General Vinyl ) a few days ago .

Andrew - got the modified 19V board , with D44H11 , and epoxyC0G caps , going about an hour ago. Sounds very good, I think it's an improvement both on tone and low bass. At the moment it returns 18.4V , so it will need tweaking a bit. I think I used 6.8k/1k for the adj . I'll give it a few days list...

Are you expecting a cold Winter this year ?

If you search on 'Audio Chews' forum you will find a fair bit of discussion on this subject as quite a few there use NVA amps . I seem to remember most of the discussion being skeptical about NVA's overly restrictive claims - especially from people like Colin of TQ . It may well be so that high or m...

For sale, pair of these. Almost new, lightly used, run-in for 20-30 hrs with eg.25Hz and used for experiments on OB . http://www.eminence.com/pdf/DeltaliteII_2515.pdf Nice lightweight PA speakers, good for OB with equalisation or ported box. Probably best played loud ! Pair bought for about £315 new...

Yes that is very good Mike !
I was also tickled by -

"Caller: 'I'd like the number of the Argoed Fish Bar in Cardiff please'.
Operator: 'I'm sorry, there's no listing. Is the spelling correct?'
Caller: 'Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish Bar, but the 'B' fell off'.

Top notch

It's not going to sound 'pants' with curves like that !

Just been looking more carefully at my tonearm set-up since I got back from Owston. I landed on some interesting & slightly different instructions on Allen Wright's old Vacuum State website : http://www.vacuumstate.com/fileupload/GuruSetUp.pdf I was interested to follow this, as I have had quite...

Unfortunately the magic smoke escaped from Andrew's latest minor iteration to the 3A board. No test on this one as yet. My fault - minus 24V input to the circuit is not optimum ! :oops: To answer Ed's unanswered question from a few pages ago - yes, they are good for GM70 . If you use an SMPS, just ...

I just put it out there for anyone interested in making a cheap good-sounding amp, as they only cost a fiver each . Then if someone makes it, we can find out if they sound 'very good' or 'great'. Apparently my posting wasn't aimed at you .