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 Expanded my bubble with a covid test and a visit for a weekend of listening to cartridge variations in DC. Thus far the cantilever, diamond...

 Random said number 5 boptura needs to get me an address.

 It is that time again.  Everyone air your grievance below in an identifiable comment and before the year ends Random.org will pick a winner...

 I've used this title before around the holidays and this time I'll take it 100% literal. Being a huge fan of silver wound things an...

  By my count that means Pete_B needs to send me his address.   Enjoy!

 Not many thinks kicking around lately that need new homes but these might appeal to a few of you. A customer needed some naked speakerforme...

 I have been playing a fair bit with cartridge designs lately and have come to the realization that setup (mainly SRA) can have a profound i...

 It would seem that something as trivial as a garage door opener would never find its way to these pages but often it is the trivial that gi...

  THERE! I said it, and I have been trying to say it for years.  Now I am going to use my junkie pulpit to try to explain it in simple terms...

I have been playing with cartridges lately and one of the central points to any cartridge is the magnet.  I built this charging coil to re-m...

It has been two months since Art left us and Janet reached out to me to help re-home the Step-Up that he was rotating through his system wit...

Audio lost another of its treasures last week when Dennis R. Hoyer passed away in Milwaukee.  If you had a vintage transformer that neede...

I figured it was time to jot down some ideas on how step-up transformers are best applied to MC cartridges.  Hopefully the info at the link ...

Sheltering at home has lead to a few new things in the intact arsenal.  First is a low ratio Speakerformer.  These units offer 1dB-6dB of at...

The archives in this case being a dust covered cardboard box on a bottom shelf in the far corner of the 'Lab'. The chassis work...

We love to see it when friends get the credit they deserve!  The NY Times did this nice piece  on what Pete Hutchison is doing in London wit...

I updated the Intact SUT page to better represent the current state of affairs of what is going on inside the Intact and EM/IA MC Step-Ups...

this is where it gets crazy,  I just sent a 90 pound shipment to Ngan and the cost was $230 using fedex great rates.  This was nearly dou...