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Sunday, June 20, 2021

blink blink blink

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 I mentioned the  Feral Eye  a number of years ago and the fate it met from Hurricane Sandy.  It  was brought back to life by steve berger a...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Another Early Strain Gauge

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 I came across this cart on the 'bay and it is from an Admial 6F10 One interesting thing about it is the way the cantilever and stylus a...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Autoformer Frequency Response

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 Had a customer ask for details about the frequency response of the autoformers and while I honestly believe a picture is worth 1000 words, ...
Thursday, March 4, 2021

Unsafe At Any Speed

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Apologies in advance to Ralph Nader for a wee bit of appropriation.    
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Garrard 301

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 I know the inerwebs are filled pictures of beautiful Garrard 301's and by that standard this one is a bit pedestrian. If you take a ste...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Laser Zenith

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 I have recently found the need to adjust Zenith by small repeatable increments and it seems that hot glueing a laser to the side of the car...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Cartridge Experiments

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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...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Boptura

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 Random said number 5 boptura needs to get me an address.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Festivus

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 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...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Silver and Gold

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 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...
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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Number 5

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  By my count that means Pete_B needs to send me his address.   Enjoy!
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Thursday, November 26, 2020

Black Freeday

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 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...
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Friday, November 6, 2020

Franken-Schick

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 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...
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Friday, September 18, 2020

Doc Hoyer's garage door opener.

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 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...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

New Math

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  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...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Maggin'

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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...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

R.I.P. Art

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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...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Doc Hoyer

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