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    Is there a "World's Best Cartridge?"

    Fascinating. I've reached the peak (for now, due to mostly financial and space restraints) of vinyl playback in my system so at this point the focus is superior source material. I was hooked on 15ips tape, but once in a while a vinyl will open my eyes. It's nice to have access to a forum such as...
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    vinyl upgrades; Dava, FCL tone arm, EMIA silver Phono Corrector, MC Trio

    Nice! I see the Saskia! As you know I'm a big Lenco/Slate guy... Glad to see she has found a place in such a premier system!
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    vinyl upgrades; Dava, FCL tone arm, EMIA silver Phono Corrector, MC Trio

    Wow! Things have come a long way for you since my visit, some years ago! (Came out with Rich and enjoyed some fine tapes and vinyl) I haven't logged in for a couple of years, will have to "catch up". Field coil cartridge? Whew!!!
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    the time of day has lost much of it's relevance. seems a bit disorienting to me. but i'm warming up to it.

    Well, with 5 kids at home , I'm plenty busy! Bathroom renovation, gardening, deck addition, and all of those pesky 'projects' I was going to get around to... I must say, I am going a little stir crazy, but this is the perfect time to revisit my music collection! And get that Karlsson horn...
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    The NAB adapter

    These look fantastic
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    Bybee Bullets

    I sold my Bybee bullets and associated bybee stuffs and never looked back! That Schumann resonator though... everything is SO much richer, deeper, and live-y-er! Did I tell you all about my little 'resonating bowls'! I stuck one on top of each OB speaker and two on the back wall... lively-ness...
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    Would it make sense to manufacture a playback only R2R?

    The Studer A807a 'archival' machine was a factory built playback only machine. There is a dummy blank in the recording head position. I own 2 of them, it seems the CBC jettisoned their tape equipment a few years ago and there were quite a few of these machines 'out there' I use them as...
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    Befuddling Studer a807 transport problem.

    Well, I did some maintenance on my studer 807 decks last year, resurfaced and adjusted the brakes, deep cleaning and lubrication of tape path, etc. I've moved house and now my main deck doesn't stop automatically at the end of a tape. It actually goes into high speed rewind, madly flailing tape...
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    "Cafe Blue" on Tape!

    I can't recall exactly who I got that tape from.. a fellow collector somewhere along the way It's definitely worth tracking down on tape imo.
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    "Cafe Blue" on Tape!

    I scored a copy of Cafe Blue on tape, and it does sound great, however it's not my cup of tea musically. I paid way less than $525, thank god. If anyone is interested in it , I'd be willing to trade for something interesting or sell it at my cost. I still can't get my head around BIA, it...
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    Putting out feelers to sell one or two Studer A807

    Oh!! I bought the one with no pinch roller; All it needed was a little love. It's running just great with an outboard preamp Happy 2015
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    Panasonic EPC-451-c vs SoundSmith SG

    Hi all! I got this venerable cart from U-47 last year, we made a trade and I gave up my Bottlehead Eros and took this cart with a custom made gainstage. The carts response isn't exacly flat, there is either a dip or hump in the upper midrange (Rich can chime in here)? However in my system, my...
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    Putting out feelers to sell one or two Studer A807

    Well, I bought the one sans pinch roller, as I had a spare here at the 'Casa El Harvo' It's newer than mine, much better cosmetically, but man oh man was the tape path ever dirty... The things been sitting awhile I guess. When I played a reel it sounded like a blender or something. All of the...
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    Reference tapemachine

    I have to agree with you here, Mr King. The 'problem' IS that there is nothing new out there to buy... as you say there are plenty of machines out there, and let's face it, the pro/pro-sumer/broadcast machines are workhorses, many engineered to run long hours day in day out with basic...
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    Studer a807 won't play

    I'll second Lower Mainland area. I finally found a fairly local Studer/Revox r2r tech, he's retired and isn't exactly 'chomping at the bit' For work, but, much like my Leica guy, he knows these particular machines back to front, has all of the service manuals and tools and got mine back in...
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    Help with specs Studer repro head?

    I'm having a little repro amp built and I can't find the specs for the Studer head anywhere! Non butterfly head, I believe the part # is 1.318.736.00 I need to know what is the output? I've been told 53db is plenty gain for the Studer but the tech needs the specs on the head. Does anyone know?
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    I'm tempted but my brain keeps telling me No.

    Darn!!! I feel extra lucky to have gotten my A807 archival (playback only) for $200!! It needed a good cleaning (green goo) and a new pinch roller... but if you all remember my rather epic flail trying to finally procure a "po boy" 15ips 2 track, cheap does indeed cost money.... This is the...
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    New addition to the Studer Museum of Seattle

    "Let's hope we can hook another unsuspecting newbie from the video." Oh, truly evil!! There I was innocently obsessing over consumer machines and (somewhat)? sanely priced 4 track reels.... Blammo! I find WBF!! 2 years, and some dozen machines, later... I'm FINALLY convinced I'm getting a...
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    Frugal DACs...

    The teac really does look like a great value, $850 for dsd? Does anyone know how/if it compares to the Mytek? Forgive me , I am a digital neophyte, I've been analog only for the last few years, using digital for background and dinner music only... Fine for masking the sounds of mastication...
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    Frugal DACs...

    I gave up on my 'lampucera' with tube output stage (scavenged from my modwright 999) and bought the grant audio dac11, wasn't really all that impressed with it to be honest, rolled in an nos Philips 6dj8, the whole affair seemed, well, slow and 'unexciting' of course, coming from tape, and...
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    Jazz 24/192 and DSD sample

    We just sat here and had a listen to the 'remaster' the guys were wanting to know what kind of mics you used, and what type of recorder? this tape is definitely on the shortlist!
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    ATAE Fred Thal Cello electronics for tape

    Rick H. sent me a link to these guys the other day, I was asking why he decided to sell off all of his tape, and tape related stuff.... Having just had my head turned around by HDTracks, I had to wonder if that was part of the reason.... He said something about a Weiss DAC, and sent me this...
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    What country has the best beer?

    Easy! Canada! with Belgium running a close second.
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    Places to listen to tape around the country-

    Sheesh! I just had a couple of buddies over to hear some tape.... they're in the same boat now.. Abbey Road wrecked them!! I'm regretting not being able to make it down with Rich for the Revolver demo, but in a way I dodged a bullet... after hearing your system, coming back to my little setup...
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    Demystifying budget phono preamps

    I was considering modding mine for tape pre duty. Someone posted the R values for nab and IEC curves... Thoughts?
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    Battle Royal for a Studer A-820

    I have decided this will be my next deck.... It will be so!! Muahahahahahaaa!!!! (one can dream)
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    Scare me away from tape...

    Shoot! Here I was figuring I had really 'scored' with the butterfly head! (Mine has only one head, playback) So the flux are superior to the butterfly heads then? Thank you for the info, I will use that as a guide to get me started. Mostly listening to Safety dubs, and factory 7.5ips...
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    Scare me away from tape...

    "I have heard Nick's demo's at both RMAF and at Paragon on multiple occasions. Sure it sounds good. I stand by my statement that nothing could get me back into tape. "Sounds lije you spend too much time listening to how a system sounds rather than to music you like," I never understood...
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    Can you believe this ?

    Tony, I decided to put my 4 tracks on the block, my Time Out went for $160!!! I was thinking $100, max! KOB went for $260(!) those two paid for my KOB 1/2 track safety dub! The 2 track tapes were even more ridiculous! And these are factory 7.5ips tapes! It's getting CRAZY out there! Yikes! At...
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    More High Resolution Software for Tapeheads!

    Holy Cow! Sounds like my friend's list... Except he's been pretty cloak and dagger about the whole thing. There must be an abundance of these safety masters floating around out there, this is the 3rd guy I've heard of now offering 'Time Out' Wondering if the quality differs between them? I...

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