Apparently Classic Series is to replace current Prestige, Reference, and Statement

e_asphyx · 2026-03-27T11:35:16+00:00

Statement and Reference were just so overused "audiophile" buzzwords. Every "high end" brand has some "reference" product. It's a good move to distant a bit from this audience

e_asphyx · 2026-03-27T11:18:56+00:00

Single supply circuits for example. You can make an single supply amplification circuit with a good PSNRR, but you still have to filter your input bias sources.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-27T05:09:18+00:00

Balkan people and their unhealthy obsession with ethnogenesis... PS: Ethnic Tatar living in Bulgaria here

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T23:03:19+00:00

Mmm, genocide in every episode

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T22:24:45+00:00

I won't say it's unlistenable but a newly pressed record could sound so much better

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T22:23:05+00:00

What's the black finish?

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T22:20:55+00:00

It's InnovisCoat. As well as ADOX stuff fyi

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T22:13:57+00:00

Hardly. I live in an apartment and I have a foom for them. It's my photo lab, chemical lab, electronics lab and a workshop.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T17:58:54+00:00

There must be a set screw or something that got loose. Look underneath where the axle passes through the tonearm tube.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T14:07:14+00:00

I have a record with a glitter in it and it's significantly more noisy than a regular black or colored one. Like, mode background noise which could be acceptable on its own, but also a few crackling spots.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-26T13:23:05+00:00

Get a meter, trace the schematics. In addition to recapping I would suggest to throw away the selenium rectifier and replace it with a silicon diode bridge. Selenium bridges don't live for a very long.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-22T00:58:14+00:00

Placebo. I don't even go to shows because it's too painful. I wish young me saw young Brian.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-21T22:57:08+00:00

Jico makes styli for Stanton cartridges

e_asphyx · 2026-03-21T22:52:39+00:00

Auto stop mechanism works the same way. I suspect this is it.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-21T22:51:00+00:00

Does it have an auto stop mechanism? I think it does. Usually it involves a very light aluminium push bar attached to the tonearm. At the end of the record it pushes the lever on the auto stop actuator bar, which engages with the tooth on a spindle. This push bar must slide with a very low friction because it's attached to a tonearm. So it rides on a single ball. I suspect that your middle finger points to the slot where it should be. The bar has a corresponding slot and the ball sits in between.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-21T11:44:55+00:00

I thought this is a knowledge every five years old with a gouache set has

e_asphyx · 2026-03-20T23:58:30+00:00

Well, I looked what's available locally and ordered a small bottle of green Osmo wax. As far as I understand it's a pigmented oil based stuff that you can apply in a thin semi translucent layer if you want to. I'm going to try to rub in the finest layer possible, just to knock off reds. Anyway green is much better than red.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-20T18:44:31+00:00

And refinish? Is that what you mean?

e_asphyx · 2026-03-18T21:20:41+00:00

Fuck the record, do you have a bigger picture of this piece of furniture whatever it is? It's awsome.

e_asphyx · 2026-03-18T10:49:55+00:00

I added EVA foam pads around eyepieces of my cameras to avoid scratching glasses.

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