Vinylalia
Because I’m obsessive and am going to lose the links unless I note them here:
Micrographia: the Microscopy of Vinyl Records
Shure M97xE High Performance Cartridge
Stereophile: Tweaking your Record-Player
Van den Hul: Turntable System Setup
Audiophilia: A Beginner’s Guide to Cartridge Setup
Audio Asylum Audio FAQ
And, just for kicks, the Stereophile Complaint Form
Dead Mac blues
It hasn’t been all hi-fi fun here, unfortunately. Esta’s PowerBook, which used to be my old faithful G3, has bitten the dust. It won’t boot any more. I made an appointment for her at the Cambridge Apple Store, and they indicated that (a) it needed some internal power circuitry replaced, which would set her back [...]
Denon, de non psallibus
Esta, who arrived on Wednesday evening for a few days of R and R, is helping me with a very important task: auditioning a new turntable. A coworker was looking to unload a circa 1983 Denon DP-45F that hadn’t been played in eleven years.
So far the results have been mixed. On the plus side, the [...]
