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Nightfall
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afterburnt wrote: »
They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    could it be a 27 CD set of Yes "Fragile?" :*
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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,536
    Must be Italian...
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,320
    Hope it's not PFB related
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
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    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    Cookies? Mail order bride?
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Still putting it together.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    some assemble required... :/
    mail order bride made of cookies? :p
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,320
    https://youtu.be/IkdmOVejUlI
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,320
    https://youtu.be/Z0YIJQ1jgEI
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,794
    rednedtugent wrote: »
    some assemble required... :/
    mail order bride made of cookies? :p

    I like your style, Red. ;)
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2016
    Noooooooo! F*&! my life, I just dropped the smallest nut ever and can't find it. I hate installing cartridges.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    By some stroke of luck I found the nut. Pmount should have taken off on higher end cartridges. ;)
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    I dropped a nut once, hurt like H-E-L-L.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    Looks nice, what TT is it?
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,320
    motorhead43026 wrote: »
    Looks nice, what TT is it?

    yamaha linear tracking
    2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
    Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
    Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
    Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC

    erat interfectorem cesar et **** dictatorem dicere a
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,904
    ^^thank you, looks really nice.
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2016
    Nooshinjohns Yamaha PX-3. Few more hours left of work before I can finish setting her up.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2016
    @nooshinjohn did a fantastic job packing this turntable, it made the trip from CA to CO and took no damage in the process. I finished putting on my Denon DL-110 onto the spare headshell and I have the first record on and it's sounding great to me, better than the P-550. Don't know how much better you could get for the price.

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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    Congrats and enjoy
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    For the price it can't be topped. Were it not for the massive step up to the TriangleArt, I would not have considered moving on from that table.

    Sorry for the delay in shipping it, but I know you agree the extra time packing it saved us a potential nightmare.

    Enjoy the music!

    John
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2016
    Wow so just swapped in the LOMC MC-705 cartridge for the giggs. I was expecting my tubed MM phono stage to not work so well with it... the volume knob has to be turned up a little (10-15% guessing) compared to the HOMC DL-110 but it works just fine. The DL-110 ouputs 1.6mV and the MC-705 is 0.3mV What would I gain with a SUT in this case? Less tube rush because the volume knob on the preamp would be lower?

    Edit: I bet @SCompRacer could answer this one.
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    The mc705 is a good little cartridge, and having a pair of shells makes swapping a breeze. I just wish I could do that here without the fuss. I am terrified of swapping anything on this table as nothing is easy, or cheap.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    After some reading it looks it's made by Audio Technica and it's one of the few MC cartridges with a user replaceable stylus. You can swap either a HO or LO stylus onto it. I wonder if it already has been replaced with a HO stylus and how could I tell?
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    It is the original. When I picked up this table it was new in the box and only opened to inspect. It was owned by an F15 Strike Eagle driver. He purchased it while in Alaska and sent it to his parents home in Michigan. According to him, it never saw a record placed on the platter. I used the MC705 for about 6 months before swapping to a Denon, and then a Sumiko Bps EvoIII. I never used the MC again.
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Well... not sure how this happened to my Denon but a quick Google search of "slightly bent cantilever" brings up many people saying stop using it immediately.

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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    Musta been playing some Yoko...she ruins everything.
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,245
    Too easy.
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Noooooooo! F*&! my life, I just dropped the smallest nut ever and can't find it.

    Congratulations, beautiful!
    I disabled signatures.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    Nightfall wrote: »
    Wow so just swapped in the LOMC MC-705 cartridge for the giggs. I was expecting my tubed MM phono stage to not work so well with it... the volume knob has to be turned up a little (10-15% guessing) compared to the HOMC DL-110 but it works just fine. The DL-110 ouputs 1.6mV and the MC-705 is 0.3mV What would I gain with a SUT in this case? Less tube rush because the volume knob on the preamp would be lower?

    Edit: I bet @SCompRacer could answer this one.

    I have a High MC Cartridge and you normally use the MM setting for it and not the MC setting on my phono amp but I had to turn the volume up a lot more.

    The SUT Rich talked me into really helped - I didnt have to have it but it worked nicely, John is using it now as it lets you use a MM phono amp and seems to sound better then most low mc phono amps without a SUT.
    2 ch- Polk CRS+ * Vincent SA-31MK Preamp * Vincent Sp-331 Amp * Marantz SA8005 SACD * Project Xperience Classic TT * Sumiko Blue Point #2 MC cartridge

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited August 2016
    After listening during the day, I was wrong. There's not enough gain. It's listenable but you can't "rock out" at all and I'm too scared to keep using the Denon, last thing I want to do is destroy my records. They're way too damn expensive. I'll live with running this LOMC on my MM stage until I can get a new cart.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,461
    Dynavector 20x2HO... >:)
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

    “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
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