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Hi Antifon. Are these still available?

There are different oils for the different bearings. You can pick it up on ebay easily and cheaply. I think I recently paid less than £5 posted for a 30ml vial.

It is a bit like saying what's your favourite sexually transmitted disease.

The look of the component is laregley irrelevant providing it does the job it is tasked to do. What does matter to me, aesthetically speaking, is how everything is arranged and housed.

That's what I've just bought. Plastic reels just don't cut it on this machine - it's far too pretty.

There are several brands available. I'd like to get Akai I if I could but they're all thin on the ground in general in would seem.

Thanks for the mention. They only have 10", though.

...some 7" metal spools for a reel to reel deck? I've had a look through ebay and found a lot of overpriced tat (quelle surprise) but I'm struggling to find any other likely sources. I'm hoping the PFM massive will come up trumps.

Has it always done this or has it just started to happen? Have you recently changed anything? The primary cause is typically poor chassis grounding. The internal earth that fixes to the sub chassis is probably loose or has a poor connection due to the paint not being scraped off properly.

Vinyl took over my world a quarter of a century ago...

That's a nice looking room you have there. Although the speakers are front ported, do you get much reflection from where they are sited? My albums stay in their racks. Only recent listens are kept outside for everyone to see. I much prefer them being stowed away. It gives a greater sense of...

I do. That's what finding music is all about. Pushing a button or scrolling a rotary control to select music just takes you further away from the listening experience as far as I'm concerned.

I'm in a similar position. Media blasting would be the best option - especially for a fluted design. You can choose a soft grade medium to protect the wood as much as possible. There's a whole range of oils out there so retreating would be a doddle. With regards to the platter, autosol (metal...

Hmmm. Travelling Riverside Blues. That is all.

Cheers!