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Yep, yep, yep, Oh and yep again.
 
xxmartinxx if you could hand your ID card for the HiFi society in to the nice lady at the door that will be fine.
 
I'm with kannibal on this one, I reckon you'll miss those glowing bottles and pretty soon. All through my HiFi life my listening habits have come and gone based on life in general but I have definitely regretted every time I've just turned good kit into money without a like for like or better replacement.

I'm deeply upset that no one informed me of the existence of this thread.
If you would all now focus on the image of a disappointed Dad face my work here is done.

I wonder what David Bowie track they're going to milk the fuck out of this year

This was totally the best place.
 
If it was posted in Everything Else, I would have missed the lolz.
 

It's shit like this that makes me miss Paramore Maniac ZayZay or whatever his name was. At least that was fun...

Didn't display on mobile you say?
 
Best check yo algorithm son.

I was sorely disappointed to open this thread and discover my music project is called pirate, and I’m going to be one of the biggest in the world is not the name of a new emo band. 

Did you just use 'ish' and 'shit' in the same sentence?

Did you sneak a second or third Pepsi past mom today?
 

XLR is for balanced inputs where there are effectively 2 alternating signal lines and a ground and RCA connections have one signal line and one ground so if you have a device that has RCA outputs it's pointless plugging it into a balanced XLR input unless you have to becasue that's the only input choice you have. If you do have to it's easy to buy phono RCA to XLR cables or even make them yourself.
The biggest issue you are going to have is the distance you are running so good quality cables are the only requirement here.

Actually, it's food.
 

Ah ok fair enough if you're happy where you are then I doff my cap to you sir and enjoy your new mono blocks, I guess I experiment a bit more than some, can't help it, if someone tells me there's some wondrous thing I haven't done I have to try it to see for myself.

It also makes things a lot cheaper as you only buy the part you need not a whole assembly

If it's creating it's own surface noise then it could well be a worn stylus but have you checked the setup? the humming will just be dirty connections somewhere along the line of the arm and the cable causing a bad earth
Also that's a great table for the money so it's worth spending a bit of money on and treating it to a new stylus or cartridge if it needs it. Getting a replacement stylus for that Micro Acoustics cartridge might be difficult though.
If you have another table that has an SME type/bayonet headshell fitting which is pretty common try swapping the headshells with the cartridges in to see if the humming and surface noise go away but if you do remember to reset the weights and heights etc.

It's a fucking BASS GUITAR AMPLIFIER.  You can't trouble-shoot stupid.

What did they drive them with in Richers when you demoed them? On paper I can see no reason why the Cambridge shouldn't be able to drive them perfectly well, they're nice and sensitive for a big floor stander so I'd expect to be able to drive them with the low end of Tannoys recommendation of 25W RMS with no problems at all. But there are a couple of things here:
 
Was he just trying to sell you a new amp as well? They do like to sell a package in there
Did they not have a 351 or it's equivalent for you to try them on? They were the UK's only outlet for them after all
That said he should know as they are the UK distributor and Cambridge only quote 45W they don't clarify if thats RMS, Peak or PMPO so it might not be 45W as far as the Tannoys are concerned.
 
I'm still a little confused as to why they couldn't produce a similar amp to prove it to you with though.

Can't see what all the fuss is about. I don't like any of them.
You bloody elitist HiFi snobs should all just use one of those nice Crosley suitcase thingies like us normal people do.

Bent pins on the tubes shouldn't matter, that sounds like a lack of gain or an impedance mis match.
This thing is derived from the Musical Fidelity X10 which is a valve buffer stage with no gain at all, the Chinese modified the circuit to give it some gain so it could be used as a pre amp stage, one thing they do though is to push the power supply to the very edge of being able to work so you might find the output of your transformer is too low under load which would mean the HT voltage on the valves is too low.
What are you using as a transformer to power it and have you got anything bigger to try? it isn't necessarily low voltage to start with but if the current output is low then there will be a big volt drop under load which effectively means you are not giving it enough voltage when it needs it.
I used one of the cheap toroids from Maplin for mine, the one 15VA with two 6V secondaries did the job,  I wired the two secondaries in series to give me 12V
Mine looks like this now.

ebay
Here's the link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1Pc-6J1-Valve-Pre-amp-Tube-PreAmplifier-Board-On-Musical-Fidelity-X10-D-Circuit-/291786271575?hash=item43efd12b57:g:44sAAOSwMNxXV914
There's lots of different variants of them but this is the one I bought

Tight on time today so I won't go into as much detail as usual
 
Speedbox yes, speed stability is the upside there not just the ability to change speed easily and is much much more important.
Not sure about the Ortofon red? Then don't bother with the blue try something else, AT maybe?
Less bass when using an acrylic platter? Utter bollocks, the platter isn't the issue there unless it's massively changing the VTA in which case it's the wrong platter for the turntable or the cartridge used is extremely sensitive to small VTA changes which I find very unlikely. Basically everything being equal there are no downsides to an acrylic platter.

Tight on time today so I won't go into as much detail as usual
 
Speedbox yes, speed stability is the upside there not just the ability to change speed easily and is much much more important.
Not sure about the Ortofon red? Then don't bother with the blue try something else, AT maybe?
Less bass when using an acrylic platter? Utter bollocks, the platter isn't the issue there unless it's massively changing the VTA in which case it's the wrong platter for the turntable or the cartridge used is extremely sensitive to small VTA changes which I find very unlikely. Basically everything being equal there are no downsides to an acrylic platter.

Tight on time today so I won't go into as much detail as usual
 
Speedbox yes, speed stability is the upside there not just the ability to change speed easily and is much much more important.
Not sure about the Ortofon red? Then don't bother with the blue try something else, AT maybe?
Less bass when using an acrylic platter? Utter bollocks, the platter isn't the issue there unless it's massively changing the VTA in which case it's the wrong platter for the turntable or the cartridge used is extremely sensitive to small VTA changes which I find very unlikely. Basically everything being equal there are no downsides to an acrylic platter.