@Michelle Knight Your love is bigger than mine! I am too lazy to use VPI16.5 to clean my records, but thanks to you I got another New Year...
Holy Mother of C...Darwin, what a sweet 7.1 stereo Deech got here! Even Christmas Tree looks kinda small being so close to the Treasure :) I...
NOS 6922 Mullard tubes into HD600 was my favorite combination! Good choice :applause Good to know that it is not Dragon's blood in the glass...:shock
Buzzing noise when on batteries but not when plugged in sounds like a classic grounding issue to me. Once recapped, as is a Must for all Aiwas, it...
It can be fixed, just more difficult than Discmans (but reviving D-50 MkII is a bitch too!) Officially he states that he does not service...
[ATTACH] Playing "Fields of the Nephilim" on my "Elephant", while consuming "Irish Milk"/aka Guinness with a splash of Brandy... If anyone...
I am one with the responders that I follow the Artists, not Labels when growing my collection. With a few exceptions: ECM label for North-European...
Welcome! Its nice to have my kind of crazy on board!!! KC LPs are being pulled out and played at at sound levels they deserve each time my Boss is...
There was no need to do anything, I opened it to check if its laser/"eye-pattern"still solid and also if tracking/focus drifted out of specs....
Frankly, I have no idea!! I really love Philips CD555 Sound Machine, its restoration described here by @Virgil Gheorghiu But there is No Way I am...
Great catch, Congratulations! here is one more pic of D-350 ;): [ATTACH]
One of Sony Discmans from 1993 is D-121, I was not impressed by it. It was also reviewed, among other Discmans, at Head-Fi and also here. These...
@19lexicon78 Once you hunt down your Dream cassette deck, please post an update. I am more than happy with my LX-3, even sold LX-5 restored for me...
Not True!!! The only Discman from '91-93 worth having is Denon DCP-150, "The Rest is Noise" (my fav book by Alex Ross) 1990-ies is the Dark Age...
@19lexicon78 now you Must tell us more about The Best deck out there!!! Myguess it is not the Dragon... Is it Nak? Can it beat half-decent R2R?
@Command8 if only one video then this is it: How To Solder You may laugh all you want that it takes 10 min to solder one piece, but this is...
Two small flat screwdrivers on the opposite sides of CD "platter" and you can pop it up a bit. Sometimes I manage it using just fingernails (this...
I collect Discmans, not Walkmans (sorry!!) and the only brand I ever saw was Marlboro: [ATTACH] Marlboro is/was not my poison (I was Winston...
For the volume pot you might be able to find a substitute at DigiKey. At least for Philips D8444 I got lucky there
@mihokm thanks for the tip! I guess instead of buying more dead Panasonics I will wait for new pinchrollers :) I think pinchroller cores should...
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