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Gorgeous! Your vintage turntables amazing and your setup is something to behold. Congrats! Me, I'm finally getting my table and speaker system put back together after my move. A little Allison Krauss to test the cartridge. Also, another messy temp studio setup (l have big plans for the new one so it'll be months in the making I'm guessing).

The horror, the horror. Basically this is the final Erno Borbely design. It is a current mode phono stage, where the cartridge looks into close to zero impedance. First stage with parallel J40/K170, and a power stage to drive the passive RIAA. Then a 40dB gain stage with power stage to drive the output. It can be configured many different ways: No feedback first stage, with input R of about 4 ohms for higher R moving coils Feedback first stage which reduces input R to tiny value for low R moving coils. Can be run single ended or balanced input, and single ended or balanced output. I've set it up as a no-feedback version, fully balanced IO. There is a bal2unbal board which I currently have not wired in. Shunt regulator for each board, layout by moi. Dual power supply, each with dual bridge rectifier and lots of smoothing cap.

Well, I joined this club at last: Rega p3-24 with elys 2 cartridge and ifi phono 2. All are ok, but it's extemely hard to find metal albums in Turkey. And this is my corner of pleasures:

i recently did some refurbishing of my apartment, and decided to rotate the living room 180 degrees, to allow even more room for the stereo. this allowed me to place the TH subs in the corner, freeing up enough space to fit both my TT's! new USM Haller shelf (built from vintage parts) - Aw yiss! mmm... so smooth So now i have the AT33 mono on the NRK tts3000 (for mono records obviously) and the AT33ptg/II on the SR sp-10mkII I have routed them through an rca switch going to the RIAA, so i can change between them easily. the shelves pull out, and has enough room for around 300 records. a very convenient way to store the currently most played records close to the TT's.

Maybe Greg meant that the downside was for her?

I went to see the Oslo philharmonic orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes perform Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich this friday, and now thanks to BBC 3 i can relive that moment, as they performed the same sets on the Proms yesterday. I think they did a very good rendition of Rach.4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092k4sn i need to rip this from the web with audacity or something so i can keep listening to even after they remove it from the web.

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Steve, is that the Dave Gruisin Discovered Again LP I see on your couch? If so is that the direct disc one? I have that! We are now soulmates!

Oingo Boingo's Farewell concert from 1995.

The wall of misfit, underused bikes continues to grow. The Litespeed got relegated to the corner with the Spot to make room for the Mountainish bike. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No questionably street-legal racing slicks, Grahame? Shame!

50% off one day sale at Nonesuch Records. Wilco, Joshua Redman, Kronos Quarter, etc. Use code SUMMER https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159404686510245&id=21877965244 **BRENT**

That title doesn't sound familiar...(wanders off to look it up)

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At 7 feet tall and 350 pounds, she didn't seem that little...

Looks cool. But I've never understood why the solid state world threw out the inductor baby with the tube bathwater. Adding even a small choke to your filter will pay huge dividends on high frequency harshness that the bridges add, that the R-cores pass, and that those big caps do a poor job filtering out.

I too wear a Charge 2 daily and nightly. No issues sleeping with it on. And it doesn't necessarily turn on if you move, just if it thinks you moved your wrist to look at the face. It's never once woken me up but I sleep pretty well (knocks furiously on wood).

This is an excellently mastered album!

Dusty, my wife has a fitbit Charge 2. Wears it to bed. If you can sleep with a watch on it will not affect you. However, if you move it does emit a green light (or at least I think it's green. I am color challenged). That can be annoying if you happen to see it.

They just announced a new watch-style one yesterday. I'm sure we can find you the Charge 2 for under list. I wear a Charge HR daily and barely notice it, but the Charge 2 is the lowest model I'd consider. Graham will be along shortly with links to buy, and info on the new one. **BRENT** Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

You got told to put it back in your pants? I hate that.

Boy, I am glad I decided to wait of the power meter pedals. Now the vector3 were announced and said be out in about a month for the same price as that of the V2 *and* Powertap dropped their pricing to match it to that of the V3. DC rainmaker has a deep look into the V3. No pods is the highlight for me. Also the new edge is supposedly in stock and shipping. I am not going to this one, not enough new features to make me switch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Slowly completely my bat shit silly phono stage. Currently working on a grounding scheme to remove 200mV (!!)of hum on the outputs. I'll post pics once sorted.

@Bjarnetv, your setup is awesome! Love that cabinet with dueling TTs and plenty of records. Looking good Steve! Exciting to be building out your studio space. Enjoy the beautiful, beautiful music!

Finns know their speakers. Cast aluminium chassis, twin Class-AB amps and a metal tweeter that sounds anything but metal. The minimum diffraction enclosure seems to be working as I feel the imaging is as good as the coax LS50ies. Despite playing below 40Hz very well a digital crossover sends everything below 60Hz to MiniDSP 2x4HD which room corrects the signal before it's amplified by a IMG Stageline STA-800D amp for subs. My next stop is swapping the miniDSP for an Mac Mini to run digital frequency and phase correction.

She will need some serious weight loss work. Once the new wheels are built, with heavy ass dyno added, it will probably weigh as much as my old FS MTB. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Don't for heavens sake try to have a barbecue in that, because you can't have your kayak and heat it. Which reminds me of the chess convention. After a few drinks in the hotel bar, they were sat in the lobby having a loud discussion about the matches that they had won that day. Eventually the manager came and threw them out on the basis that he did not want chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

Mbappe to PSG. That's quite a strike force now with Neymar and Cavani.

Splitting off from another topic, I'm still really wanting this game to finally get released. CDPR, the studio behind Witcher 3, has had this in the works for many, many years and is their most ambitious project ever:

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I'm going to guess them to be about 22" wide x 26" tall. They are large! I'm imagining sitting atop a desk, no riser would be needed. I'm not sure that the name "Monitor" should be taken as desktop monitor. I think you'd want to be at least 8' back. Those AMT units have a wide dispersion but sound best further back. At least with my old ESS's.

Droool... A nice touch is the fact that it will be a drop in replacement for the sp10mkII, so you wont have to make a new plinth.

I had a great second date, last night, at least until the last 5 or so minutes it. I'm starting to wonder why I'm bothering.