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    What are you listening to right now ?

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    What are you listening to right now ?

    My dad worked at the Portland Zoo when I was little.
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    604e owners help convince me

    I second this option of the 604E / Mastering Lab crossover (in a suitably voluminous cabinet). The only speaker I’ve heard that might have it beat in the midrange while maintaining that Altec effortlessness, is the @je2a3 753c Altec 2-way. I’m also going to disagree with the ‘604E’s can’t...
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    Sold Zenith 49CZ852

    That was quick.
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    "For example" Sure, Mikey. Sure.
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    DIY Woody's Altec Valencia-19 project

    I've had pretty good luck with the Tung-Sol 'tallboy' 6SN7s when it comes to microphonics (it's what I use in my W4-AMs).
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    Some of the best discoveries come when you just push all the buttons.
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    I'm boycotting that story for their use of 'vinyls'
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    Yeah, but you're a grownup. Shirt is good enough for a 10-year-old. :D
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    Yes. We had apple trees in our yard growing up (King, Transparent, Gravenstein, etc.), and I learned to always buff off an apple on my shirt before eating.
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    DIY Woody's Altec Valencia-19 project

    The only tube preamp I've ever had in my system that was sufficiently quiet for my Altecs was a DIY Aikido LV. There's a reason I'm using solid state for the preamplification stages and tubes for the output.
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    It's good in cutting through wax on apples, pesticides, etc.
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    My wife is a big fan of Veggie Wash (in addition to faucet and colander).
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    Seeking Help with Mastering Labs Crossovers for Altec 604e Speakers

    Follow up - the toggles I bought off of eBay were...not great. However, I just decided to outright omit the 3.3R and there's the sparkle that I was missing. Allowed me to back off the 8kHz shelf a bit. Big improvement.
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    6 Reasons Why Someone is Breaking Up With Vinyl and Going Back to CDs

    You bought one of those newfangled 'Sprouty-Gritty' wet / dry vacuum sprout cleaners?
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    New England earthquake

    Sorry - was not intended as a natural disaster pissing contest. More just amusing that I've been within 50 miles of three major geologic events. (also, I am a smidge older than you)
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    DIY Woody's Altec Valencia-19 project

    Not Harbeth perfect, my ass. Those are fucking amazing.
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    New England earthquake

    I was approximately the same distance (on the border between La Verne and San Dimas) from the epicenter of the Northridge quake as you were. The weird thing with Northridge was how the effects propagated - almost like there were (relative) null zones. Ironically, I was also ~ 50 miles from...
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    New England earthquake

    I've been in three significant earthquakes in my life: Spring Break Quake (5.6) - 1993 Northridge (6.7) - 1994 Nisqually (6.8) - 2001 In all three cases, I was sufficiently far enough from the epicenter to not be in imminent danger (other than books falling on me during the '93 quake), but...
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    Tell me about your record weight and why you like it

    I have a Record Doctor clamp that I use on my SP10 that seems to help with flattening out slightly warped records (that I haven't got around to flattening myself). My SP15 doesn't have enough spindle to grab with a Record Doctor, so I use a hockey puck as a clamp on it.
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