audio-talk

Have it set up and playing now https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4414/36326403304_b6cb5bf884_c.jpg Restoration complete by anthony cresswell , on Flickr Ive put the at-f7 in the jelco headshell I have and run it through the denon ha500 step up. Oh Dear. I had genuinely forgotten how good these things a...

Dunno how it sounds yet. well I do from having 2 other y5s and y3, but i darent try to put a cart in it tonight. I have eyes like piss holes in snow at the moment so id probably break something and dom very kindly fettled my atf7 recently so id rather not bugger it up quite yet.....

It helped to have everything I needed to hand so i could just get on with it for once :D Id already sourced the jvc headshell and technics counterweight months ago, the platter mat thats on it is a spare I found in the spares box, and pinched the oak veneer off mi old man ( it was for the bigger fla...

Restoration is now complete. A nice oak veneer with no stain applied, just a waxed finish to pull out the grain. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4369/36310416564_625dab7da2_c.jpg Restoration work completed by anthony cresswell , on Flickr I kept the satin black for the trim as I also had to spray the...

I got stuck into the rebuild of the deck today. Firstly, stripping it down proved relatively easy to do, no hidden fixings or odd screws, everything is laid out well. All connections between the boards for the buttons, main pcb and arm are block connectors and there are no duplicate pinouts so you c...

get an at-f7

Maybe drop the arm height a touch to alter the vta very slightly. Might take a little of the shout out of the top.
The f7 I have responded nicely to tweaking the vta

This is why I just use the mac mini and iTunes into a dac. Just leave the mac switched on and play stuff. I dont understand how it all works. The old system used an sb3 and my laptop running lms, the laptop still had to be on for the sb to work and I had to run a wired connection to the router from ...

Had a couple of hours with the modded rega back in place and Its kind of a blunt instument compared with the cx mk 2 wand. The modded rega is kinda... Well bland for want of a better word. Its well balanced, but hifi. Not really very dynamic. In a word, its still abit rega. The mk 3 wooden wand is c...

As its thrown it down on and off all day today making work outside impossible, I decided to go back to the modded rega arm. Ive done this as a control, i.e the modded rega was the yardstick in the first place, so I think that in order to move forward with the design I need to listen to it again and ...

Karen elson, lovely, and the new fleet foxes album 'crack up' on vinyl
A stunning album, really really like it

I picked up one of these at the back end of last year for not much money, as it is in need of a restoration. Finally got around to looking at it today, just to asses what needs doing to it. Handily, it looks a right state but mechanically its spot on. I was expecting leaking caps and IC's with corro...

Yep it was soaked in danish oil like the mk 1 and 2. Musically its fine, actually a little better than the mk 2, its the fact that it seems to smooth over the subtleties that the mk 2 doesn't. Its a little 'slow' if that makes sense. I think its a resonance in the wand thats bouncing front to back. ...

Ok. Finished the mk 3 today and had a listen. Some good points, it is abit more stable over warps than the mk 2 as the azimuth weights are a fair bit lighter on this one due to the tapered shape. Its bass tone is marginally better than the mk 2. The downside is that it doesnt sound as well balanced ...

I caynt stands it no mo
(wailey wailey)