Recent content by wd40addict

It's arrived!

One downside is the older 'this is how I soldered my widget' threads where the images have now disappeared. Even worse is where an entire forum has now disappeared and wayback is your only hope.

Don't think you'll get far with batteries. I'll be listening to Jay Wilbur on my HMV102!

And back in the day the Hi-fi mags blessing or you'd sink without trace.

Given the name and the stated efficiency these seem to be OEM cousins of Wharfedale's E range. There seems to be more love for them now than there was at the time. There's also the story that in a blind group test the E70 was rated above the normal favourites. The results were then fiddled...

My relationship with CD has changed over the years. I never got rid of my vinyl or the means to play it, but its death in the mass market led me inevitably to CD. I never quite warmed to it, especially in the rock sphere. Fast forward to now however and I agree with the op. I have bought modern...

I got very close to buying the last (non Dolby) version of these when Comet were remaindering them around 1981 for I think £150. One of those decisions I'm still not sure I got right. Sometimes when a consumer format has had its day there's an artificial buoyancy as product is sold off - in this...

Absolute max is quoted as +/-25V perilously close to +/-24V. A colleague once designed a circuit which used a comparator IC running on regulated +/-15V rails, the IC had absolute max quoted as +/-16V. Random failures of the IC started to occur and I dropped the supply to +/-12V which completely...

The paralleled triode input is very reminiscent of the David Manley VTL designs. Lack of balancing resistors across C13 & C14 is a bit worrying. The variable damping suggests they had one eye on the US market where it was de rigueur in the 50s, there's also the alternative US tubes listed. Pye...

I have no experience of the Linn, but it sounds like your meter reading of the 12v is wrong. Failed capacitors don't necessarily bulge, they can simply dry out. I recently repaired a PC ATX power supply where all looked fine, but in fact the input and output caps had all drastically sunk in...

Not so easy when they're not your children and the daughter-in-law is a fully paid up disciple of "gentle parenting".

Grills on here with my Focal 726's. Originally I used them without as my wife actually preferred the looks. However a new grandchild soon showed me what a toddler magnet they were. Putting the grills on immediately made him lose interest. The grills have stayed on ever since. Not sure I notice...

Isobaric loading was one of the many inventions of Harry Olsen at RCA. Linn used the idea and added a K!

I would have thought an SP25 would be a good starting point as long as you're prepared to do a little maintenance. I started with a BSR P128 of similar style and vintage, then moved on to a Garrard 301 so I could have high quality playback at all 3 speeds. Luckily I bought my 301 29 years ago...

Did you ever listen to the 3 speed version with an LP, if so what was it like?