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  1. A O

    A O Active Member

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    You kept those speaker stands quiet. Where did you get those from?
     
    A O, Dec 17, 2016
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    Hornbach hardware-store
     
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    Really?
     
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    autoreverser Well-Known Member

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    yep :)

    also available in Vienna, Stadtlau...
     
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    Damn Auto, I don't know enough about hifi gear to comment but thats some classy looking kit, That Thorens looks amazing..
     
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    I wonder if the Heathkit was factory or home built. As the name implies most Heathkit products were assembled from kits at home (for a modern equivalent think Velleman). They were still popular through to the mid 1980s when mass production in Japan made the kits more expensive than ready made Japanese products.

    a quick google gave

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA177&lpg=RA1-PA177&dq=heathkit+radio+cassette&source=bl&ots=jK-aTRWCU1&sig=GJcC-6c1FtlIr7DXppwm8C-bcwY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY6dPVlPzQAhUFAcAKHY8jByYQ6AEIKTAF#v=onepage&q=heathkit radio cassette&f=false

    Sadly I don't think the mail in coupon would work any longer :frown:
     
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  7. TooCooL4

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    Stylus treatment, not nail varnish ;)
     
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    TooCooL4 Well-Known Member

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    Nice vintage gear autoreverser :cool:
     
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  9. walkman archive

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    That would be a possibility... if my wife would let me. She doesn't want any furniture: no pictures in the wall, no courtains, no carpets... no nothing. Just plain white walls. So you guess...
    But I have the other stack in my working room, which I use with both small cube speakers and my headphones (most of the time).
     
    walkman archive, Dec 18, 2016
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    thanks matey, yours is also extremely awesome !!!

    i've never heard of stylus-treatment - what is it for ?
     
    autoreverser, Dec 18, 2016
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    I have noticed the surface noise is lower and it should make the stylus last longer.
     
    TooCooL4, Dec 18, 2016
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    ok, what i do is to wash and treat all my records antistatic. can you recommend me ome of that stuff to test ?
     
    autoreverser, Dec 18, 2016
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    All my records, new or old goes through the record cleaner and then placed in an antistatic sleeve.
    Yes I can recommend stylus treatment, this is the one I use Stylast. Contrary to the instructions it is not necessary to use before every record.
    I have also just treated myself to a new record brush by Furutech
     
    TooCooL4, Dec 18, 2016
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    I recognised the little brush in Toocool's first picture and realised i have the same one in a little set, also had a bottle of stylus cleaner, i never did figure out what to do with it so its just sat there unused.
    20161106_221909_resized.jpg
     
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    It works-ish, but I feel it pushes the dust around more than removing it. Ha ha
     
    TooCooL4, Dec 18, 2016
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    My humble beginners step to semi pro:
    - Technics SB-F1
    - Technics SU-C03
    - Technics RS-M02

    Decent sound and recording capabilities for cassettetapes.

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    (lol, I accidentaly shot that pic while a 'videoland' commercial was on TV... funny those Spongebob characters looking down...)
     
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    Nice Pic.:)
     
    TooCooL4, Dec 26, 2016
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    walkman archive, Dec 26, 2016
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    Nice, but that poor Revox at the bottom of the stack.:(
     
    TooCooL4, Dec 26, 2016
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    My main home system has evolved over the past few years. I love analog tape in a few different formats, compact cassette, open-reel, Elcaset, even 8-track.

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    Nando.
     
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