Recent content by schneiderhan

Many many less items than I had earlier in the year - @Mike P did a wonderful job in mending various items including the Thorens TD124 on this thread. What's left - a pre-amp or two, a vintage Marantz CD recorder which is far too complex but that's pretty much it - plus there's a Quad 33 which...

Well you know, what's 30,000+ dead Palestinians anyway. This so-called war is a loss of (mainly Palestinian) life on a scale and speed that has not been seen since the Rwandan genocide. Although whilst on that point I would also point out there is a civil war in Sudan that has claimed at least...

calling out this post for the obfuscation/denial that it is. Tony has asked that posters accept 'the reality which is clear...'. Do you think evidence is going to emerge that 34,000+ Palestinians are not in fact dead. I don't hear anything from Israel disputing the figures although whenever the...

watch from 40 mins or so for a stark view on current Israeli society.

Yes that's what I thought about mine. Mike has done a simply amazing job with it.

As reported by Mike earlier in the thread I followed his advice and got one of the $200 eBay schopper platters as I'd already separately decided to use it with MM/MI carts only. Luckily I didn't get charged customs. It's amazing, that (albeit) slight hollow / ringing sound is gone, it sounds...

Good to see descriptions of Israeli actions as terrorism in public debate - as well as in this thread!

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You can see Zarah Sultana sitting to Diane Abbot's right in parliament on Wed (https://news.sky.com/story/diane-abbott-criticises-speaker-for-not-calling-her-to-speak-during-pmqs-dominated-by-tory-donor-row-13094018). Just disgraceful, the whole episode.

This thread is making me feel better, I've only got 6 or 7, in various states of workingness. And one of them is this one, my pride and joy, which Mike P of this parish has just beautifully restored. Some amazing tables in this thread so far.

Just to say (and somewhat shamefully) I've run this deck very little in the 8 or so years I've owned it (a little when I got it and then not at all after that) so the wear it sustained will have come from those first 5-6 years. And also before I started using it, it got an oil and all clear...

Bit like your first car (mine was a Ford Fiesta, not the world's greatest but I loved it!). My first system like many others no doubt was built around a Pioneer A400 (along with a Marantz CD52SE, Aiwa tape deck and Mission speakers). Felt quite warm towards it but not warm enough to stop me...

The influence of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground on the American and particularly British 80s/90s indie guitar music I grew up with cannot be overstated, you hear echoes of it everywhere. Really in terms of guitar textures/sound/chord progressions. And I think the third album is underrated...

The v15 family are great with classical music, the ubiquitousness of the Thorens or Garrard plus SME 3009 plus V15 has I think a lot to do with classical listeners. Sony use v15s for mastering purposes. The Deutsche Grammophon Original Source series has caused a big stir in the classical vinyl...

My experience with harbeths (shl5 non pluses and p3esr's) is that they like to be toed in so that you just see the very edge of the speaker from the seating position (and then you are getting less reflected sound) and following Alan Shaw's recommendation here re distance from speaker to seat...