Recent content by kenwashesmonday

vacerator wrote: "There are modern tubes which can be treated with a process like liquid nitrogen or something to make them last longer and or enhance performance." Sounds like snake oil to me. A good old 12AX7 preamp tube is good for 10,000 hours.

Because I play all sorts of records in varying condition, including styrene 45s, I downgraded the stylus in my Shure M95 cartridge from hyper-elliptical to elliptical. It sounds quite good to my old ears.

rinso wrote: "The stacking Dual 1006 is my favorite changer of all time. It was even more Rube Goldberg-ish than a Collaro. I don't think there are any left, however." The Dual 1006 series is just off the wall.

If you consider 8 years to be trivial, so be it. BSR ran V-M out of business. BSR did not go out of business, they stopped making turntables.

phillymatt53 wrote: "The record changers used in them ceased to be manufactured by 1977, when the last company, VM, Voice Of Music, closed down. BSR itself went out of business around the same time." More misinformation. V-M was not the last man standing. If Collaro wasn't, BSR was.

VM was done in 1977. BSR went out in the mid-1980s. I remember reading that Collaro continued to 1992, but perhaps I'm mistaken. The last Collaro turntables may not have been masterpieces, but they're still better machines than 1970s BSR's, in my opinion. The last VM changers weren't so hot...

Collaro made record changers until 1992, later than BSR.

I'm lucky that here in the NYC area we have a full time station (WBGO) and a full time classical station (WQXR). Thank goodness for Public Radio.

The RCA 45J utilizes the RCA RP-168 record changer, which I believe is the world's fastest record changer. It completes the cycle in one revolution of the turntable, or 1-1/3 seconds.

RCA Victor Records introduced "Gruve-Gard" with the raised edge on their LPs in 1954.

At my local appliance (PC Richard) store's website I see: 2 KitchenAid models over $1600, 3 GE models over $1100, 3 JennAir models, 2 around $900, and one for a whopping $2000. With all the recycling these days I just don't see the need for a trash compactor. My partner and I only put out...

If you make it idiot-proof, they will build a better idiot. :)

I had a Kenmore badged one of these in my apartment 30 years ago and it worked very well. Unfortunately, our garbage cans weren't very secure and one time a raccoon got into one of the bags and spread the garbage out all over the back yard. What a mess!

I had great luck with Sunbeam AP-20 percolators over the years.

Using either type of fabric softener on towels will make them less absorbent.