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can one ever have enough 80% nickel? 

 Sun Ra did not use the term "birthday" - he referred to "arrival day"...  so which of the following "arrived"...

 something that is creeping from the back of my mind into reality....  more to come (and at the rate we add content here....)

 Here is a simple set of low frequency plots of steel (red) vs. nickel (blue) with applied signal levels. This clearly shows that for low le...

 Up for auction is the last system Dick Sequerra built and was listening to when he passed away a year ago.   No connection other than he wa...

 Matisyahu.  Born Jewish... rebelled... followed phish.... found reggae... became Hasidic...  released "Youth".... went off my rad...

  Twenty-seven years ago today this little 8lb 14oz baby was born.

 Here is a cell phone pic of what Dick was working on before he passed last fall . 

 A friend asked me the best way to use his Hagerman Fry Baby   to burn in his tonearm cables.  After a few minutes of thought I figured an o...

 They say a picture is worth 1000 words... well how about how about around 180 wires and 820 solder connections?  Brad from the Boston conti...

 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...

 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...

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

Apologies in advance to Ralph Nader for a wee bit of appropriation.    

 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...

 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...

 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...