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maybe the implication is the pico bests a y1, but not a y2

agreed, that was cold.

hey, did we ever settle up on those long RCA cables? I cannot remember

one tip is to heat the board up with a heat gun before doing ground plane joints. Also, buy my Hakko Blue, that will help as well (i.e. use a nice big tip)

Is there an easy way to search all of craigslist? If I use Google's site:craigslist.org, a lot of the listings are expired. If I use Craigslist, it seems to only return local results...

cool! I prefered the SOHA II to the Bijou when I compared the two. The SOHA II is an excellent ortho amplifier as well, as it has plenty of drive to it.

hm, where's my pick gun ... yeah, that's cheating I know, but..

8 printed circuit boards

heh.

I've always wondered, is there a rule of thumb for hole much larger the hole should be than the component lead?

Between these choices, I might choose the VPI... but the upper-end NG I think are nicer than the VPI RCMs. I have a 2.5FI and have compared with the various VPI and I think it does a much better job.. Not all that scientific of tests, but cleaning a record with a VPI, playing it, then cleaning with the NG, then playing it

My suspicions, and they are purely suspicions, is that lead free solder was used at too low of a temperature. I'd have to see the other side of the joint to be sure that adequate wicking was taking place, but this would be my concern.

well, it basically wouldn't dial in at the proper tracking force. Looks like you're good then. enjoy!

in general, you are applying too much solder. The joints should have a volcano shape. Have you powered it up yet?

welcome to the world of line contact stylus

do you need a headshell weight?

Your guess is as good as mine. My parameters were simple. Fast square wave rise/fall time (most are 100 ns, which seemed too slow to me, given what some of Ti's amps measure at), low distortion sine wave and relatively compact. I'm curious to compare the sine wave distortion to what one can generate from a CD player, for example, or even a sound card. I think these other methods might work pretty well, so, when it came down to it, square wave performance was what I cared about most. Ti uses a Wavetek 188, which is another datapoint to consider. This Tek should be twice as fast as that in theory.

Tektronix CFG280 Function Generators: CFG253 ? CFG280 > Data Sheets : Tektronix Claims ≤25 ns rise/fall time at maximum output into 50 Ω load for square wave output. We will see.

V99? V99? I mean, surely he could offer up some logo or branding design services for one.

you guys fail at letting guzziguy take one for the team

see, that's not fair

heh, I chose that one because the probes looked decent look at the same seller, I believe he has nice probe packs.

Probably a "transistor tester", which measures hfe as well as a temperature probe would be the only other things I could think of. Looks like the meter I have, the BK2706A is now discontinued and replaced with a version with less features. If I was going to buy something, I'd consider taking a chance on this one: VC99 3 36/7 Auto range DMM analog bar better FLUKE17B - eBay (item 170388685166 end time Oct-29-09 08:12:04 PDT) but perhaps there are some better recommendations out there...

what features do you need? You can just buy nice probes and using your existing meter, just as another option. In fact, I think Fitz posted a link somewhere for the probes he really likes. I like the BK Precision meters. Here's a list, with MSRP: Handheld Digital Multimeters - Multimeters - B&K Precision Depending on the features you need, I think you'll find something that will work for you there.