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  1. SteveFord
    Rumble is bearings - when is the last time all of the bearings and pivots have been lubed? That's why I own Well Tempereds - everything floats in goo and the motor is isolated from the plinth so there is no rumble driving me crazy(er)...
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    I just thought of something: how light are your turntables? A lot of people will pack the underside of the plinth with PlastiClay to give them some heft. My Well Tempereds weight a ton so there's no problem with vibration or placement.
  3. SteveFord
    Are you getting feedback? You can try shelf mounting or a maple butcher block that "floats" on sand. I use platforms made out of some sort of wood with sorbothane risers sandwiched inbetween them.
  4. SteveFord
    I was going to put up an unused rectifier tube on a road show on audiocircle for the deHavilland owners but I'm sure glad I didn't. I figured that I'd give it a listen before sending it out and it had a short in it. I turned around and white smoke is hanging above my preamp! It looks like my pre goes back to the factory for a check up.
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    It's weird how Rich has done so many generous things for people and then they turn it around and he gets vilified. The concept of the Clarifier seems simple enough. Anybody want to take a stab at resurrecting my dead one? It looks like they crazy glued the housing shut.
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    I used to do it but in a blind test I doubt if I could tell the difference between the two.
  7. SteveFord
    I would say that it works as described when it works.
  8. SteveFord
    Reliability is suspect. I have two Ultra Clarifier 4s - one dead, one still working. I had to sic' the Better Business Bureau on them to get a replacement for one failed unit.
  9. SteveFord
    "...and I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen to me". Alex in A Clockwork Orange right before he passes out and falls face first into his dinner.
  10. SteveFord
    That Beatles set is one my wish list - lucky you!
  11. SteveFord
    I'm going to try to buy one new record every week this year. I got off to a slow start but I'm picking up speed: T. Rex - Electric Warrior, 180 gm Rhino Records T. Rex - The Slider, 180 gm Fat Possum T. Rex - Tanx, 180 gm Fat Possum Mose Allison - Back Country Suite Johnny Winter - Roots PJ Harvey - White Chalk, 180 gm Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna, 180 gm, Sundazed Anybody else?
  12. SteveFord
    There's not all that much to a RCM - a holding tank for the solution, an aquarium pump for the liquid, the cleaning brush, platter, motor, wand, vacume motor and another holding tank with a drain. You could probably copy my VPI 17 for around $200 in parts. If anybody does buy a VPI machine, do yourself a big favor and remove the liquid tanks and put some varnish or plastic or something in that area. They just bolted it to particle board and it will get wet and disintegrate and then you'll be cursing up a storm.
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    Glue wouldn't play nice in my record cleaning machine. There are also ultrasonic machines which have recently been introduced but the price is way up there. I wonder if a commercial ultrasonic machine intended for another use couldn't be successfully adapted to albums?
  14. SteveFord
    Here's some information from the Library of Congress and a vendor for the solution: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/record.html http://www.labdepotinc.com/p-23169-tergitol-15-s-7-surfactant.php?c=498
  15. SteveFord
    If I may make one suggestion, give that amp a bit more breathing room. It'll last longer if it's running cooler.
  16. SteveFord
    I guess that I don't have to tell you to watch out where the Huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow.
  17. SteveFord
    The Canadian Conspiracy at work once again... Oh well, welcome to the forum!
  18. SteveFord
    The best you can hope for is that it goes into remission. Welcome to the forum.
  19. SteveFord
    I see an Albert Collins CD - that Master of the Telecaster. I always think of this when I see Albert Collins tunes: Albert lived behind this one guy who had a motorhome which needed work so it was just parked. Albert had the same model which also needed work and he used to bug the shit out of the neighbor about stripping parts off of it so Albert could fix his. The neighbor came to dread seeing Mr. Collins...
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    That's really nice of him. Many, many years ago I sold my stereo and all of my albums to one of my buddies, Mark Haggerty. He went to sea as an officer in the merchant marines and asked me to take care of the albums as he was afraid his younger brother would destroy them. I still have the Sea Hag's albums and the last I heard he married a woman in Japan.
  21. SteveFord
    Consider yourself bashed.
  22. SteveFord
    Clickee clickee nothing? Clickee clickee here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0399159460#reader_0399159460
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    You can beat a man to death but you can't make him come. A room mate said that one years ago and it still makes me laugh.
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    Previous post edited due to political content.
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/neil-young-comes-clean.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
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