Recent content by JulesBadass

Many thanks - great. Good tip on the DC offset too, will see what it reads. Right - will source some contact cleaner then! Cheers.

Any advice on the above would be appreciated. The input selctor is a) noisey in terms of static when moving it, and b) I have to delicately fiddle with it to make the sound come out of both channels clearly - even when I've got it about right, im not convinced it's 100%. I'm handy with a...

Bit of an update. Played around with getting the level correct accross the path where the stylus tracks (involved propping up one corner of the plinth to compensate for the sagging suspension) - definately better. During testing, I've discovered some records are completely fine on the inner...

Yeah - i didn't realise what the test record was all about until last week when I saw a demo on you tube. I've got some slim jewelary scales, and the weight is good; currently set at the upper end of the brush-down reccomendation, 2g, as you suggest. Im gonna try to lever up the suspended...

Yeah - fairly happy the anti si working well and setup reasonably. If I leave the arm in mid air and dial the anti skate to each extreme, the arm will swing in either direction. The deck was rescued from a market, but seems to have been looked after - lid un scuffed and no cracks, holds a...

Thanks Gregory. Yeah, that's where I sourced most of my understanding from. That's a great point you make there - about it being the stylus not the cartridge which needs to line up. The reason I pick up on this, is that I notice then when I lower the arm onto the record, as the stylus takes...

I have a Pioneer PL12D with a Shure M97xE. Been playing with alignment to eliminate inner groove distortion, based on some great advice sourced on here and links therein, some specifically aimed at my cartridge which was ideal. The IGD was fairly noticable before, so on the advice a read...

Thanks all. Yeah, appreciate its not an optimal setup, but sometimes you just need to :-) im just perplexed as to what the difference is between the two amps, and/or what the vintage amp isn't liking. Some kind of earth issue I wonder?

My Samsung PC has a 3.5mm jack output which is a combined microphone and headphone socket; i.e. it will take one plug with 3 sections, like you might see on an iPhone headphone/microhone headset. I have a stereo 3.5mm jack to phono cable. When I connect the Samsung to my CA 540a amp using the...

Just reset the cart in the head shell using the in-build overhang checker and used my new jewlers scales to set the weight - got it somewhere near I think and it's sounding great. A bit of treble distortion on the inner tracks, so it's not 100%.... but as mentioned before, i've no idea how much...

Thanks again both, learning a lot from you guys this week! Assuming that appearance means the same model, my stylis looks identical to this one, right down to the gold rectangle detail: http://www.garage-a-records.com/proddetail.php?prod=4820dee Looks like a reasonable choice based on spec...

I have a stanton 500 gold cartridge (500 AL i belieeve) identical to this one: http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=278245 i want to replace the stylus, but am massively confused about my options. As far as I can tell, there are two conical items which are intended specifically for...

I'll second that about spending time in the display setup and avoiding Cinema, Film or Vivid. I was very disappointed with my KDL-32EX403 - it took some work to get it looking nice.

So, reset the TV to the "Natural" scene and adjusted the various levels as suggested. Result was way too dark (for my eyes - daytime, ambient sensor off, watching tennis). However, knocking the backlight, contras and brightness up a bit I got to the best results I've had with this set so...

HI Lcd4ever, Thanks for that, i will give those settings a bash and report back, although I'm already sceptical that such a low back light will be acceptable on SD digital TV dark scenes... hope I'm wrong! I'm not normally one to set something to max, but it was the only way I found of...