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December 13th, 2020 13:54
Last Friday Wim from Wilking high end turntables delivered a full copper version of his already magnificent tonearm. Knowing how difficult it is to mill copper, my jaw dropped. Look at the pictures to see for
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December 12th, 2020 12:10
Some really nice pictures of a Magnavox AC3, both outside and inside, a true work of art!
My friend is restoring it with the aim to be able to connect it up to modern sources and speakers..
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December 10th, 2020 15:09
Wrote a few lines about building a safe DC-blocker using a schematic by John Broskie. Lots of photos as well..
AC DC stripper circuit
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December 6th, 2020 23:13
This weekend Wim from Wilking brought me a newly designed stabiliser. This design is slightly less in diameter as my DaVa FC-A1 cartridge was touching it at the end of the record and got kicked out
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December 5th, 2020 16:08
Just received..  a package from Lithuania containing a pair of mc step-up transformers! These are meant to be THE soulmate of Darius' fieldcoil cartridge. 
The DaVa FC-A1 mc-cartridge is from ano  Read more...
November 23rd, 2020 19:56
And so this project ends. Installing the mighty 845's in a preamplifier. Running at little less than 450 Volts on the plate at 46mA, good for little over 5 Watts output power when driven correctly.
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November 22nd, 2020 17:50
Finished the innards. All is wired and tested. Ready for use..  Tomorrow final pictures.
Left input and selector. Top left the Coleman heater modules mounted indirectly to heatsinks on top of the cabinet
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November 21st, 2020 18:56
Installed the input transformers, the very musical Tamura TD-2. Vintage cathode resistors at a value of 1K2 at 6 Watt with Silmic II cathode bypass capacitor. Wiring is old Western Electric 20GA..
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