What New Stuff Have You Bought? If You Care To Share Thead! :)

[Sealman]

Got a new Samsung QVO 2TB SSD for use as a game drive. Will now re-purpose my two 250GB Samsung SSD's to....well I will eventually figure out a use for them!

 

[snakeeyes]

Rage Against the Machine - RATM

SACD - 2 channel

 

[afterlife2]

Recent fleabay buys

 

[MR.MAGOO]

"Dark Waters" (1944); "The Collector" (1965); "A Lady Without Passport" (1950); "Hell's Five Hours" (1958)

 

[davidscott]

Recent fleabay buys
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Nice haul! How are those new phono carts working out for you?

 

[lovinthehd]

Favorite flashlight I've gotten to date. Works either on a regular old 1.5V AA or you can use a 14500 3.7V for higher output. Nicely made and super small. http://www.nicronlight.com/TwistFlashlight_244.html

 

[Shanman]

Cool little flashlight, where did you actually purchase one? The Amazon Nicron is a fluted grip rather than the crosshatch, and a different model #...

 

[lovinthehd]

Cool little flashlight, where did you actually purchase one? The Amazon Nicron is a fluted grip rather than the crosshatch, and a different model #...

I bought it from Amazon, took the picture from the only model they had on the Nicron site....didn't notice the difference in machining, mine's fluted. Now that you mention it I think I saw some other comments along the lines that they had changed over time....


ps @Shanman looked at my light and it has an "N7" on the endcap.

 

[afterlife2]

Nice haul! How are those new phono carts working out for you?

I really like all my carts so far. The newest one the ADC QLM 30 Mark lll is really good for $8.50 to my ear illuminated some of the pops.

 

[j_garcia]

 

[davidscott]

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Love me some Dave Brubeck

 

[afterlife2]

More 3D stuff and a Oppo BDP-80 SACD/Blu-ray player used for a crazy low price. I just had to.

 

[davidscott]

Favorite flashlight I've gotten to date. Works either on a regular old 1.5V AA or you can use a 14500 3.7V for higher output. Nicely made and super small. http://www.nicronlight.com/TwistFlashlight_244.html
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I need to get one of those.

 

[davidscott]

More 3D stuff and a Oppo BDP-80 SACD/Blu-ray player used for a crazy low price. I just had to.
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Hellovaprice on that Oppo!

 

[afterlife2]

Hellovaprice on that Oppo!

Dave I've been very lucky this year with my used gear and am very thankful.

 

[killdozzer]

Eeeejjjjjjj!!!


I got this NOS piece of gold. Produced 40 years ago, the original so the same weight as needed and never been used! A lot of replicas mess with the weight so it's hard to adjust the resonant freq. Originals go fo 35 - 60€, i got this for 20€.

 

[davidscott]

Nice what cart are you gonna mount that on?

 

[davidscott]

Nature's Bounty Fish Oil + D3 1200 mg Softgels 90 each

For anyone who takes both fish oil and vitamin D supplements this seems to be a nice combo. Never saw this before so I ordered from Amazon. Hopefully it will let me take one less daily pill.

 

[killdozzer]

Nice what cart are you gonna mount that on?

Thanks!

It's still the Audiotechnica AT-VM95E. I'm planing to change it, though. The thing is, my TT had some undesirable behavior. I took it to the shop to be completely taken apart and checked (it needed the lube job anyway, all the buttons were hardly moving, it made a loud clunk when bringing the tone arm to the platter when it needed to start rotating the platter etc).

The guy said all the grease dehydrated to the level when it started to look like a chewing gum on a hot road.

Since we were taking it apart anyway, we went in depth and check every little detail, but were unable to detect the problem.

That's why I concluded that maybe it's not a fault, but simply a bad combination of cart/stylus/headshell.

What I'm doing now is trying to make the set up as close to the original as possible. Original headshell was considerably lighter than most in the market today. The original stylus was of low compliance that fitted a somewhat heavy tone arm.

The original cart/stylus is not being made anymore. But I found specs to be almost the same in Nagaoka MP100, so I'm getting that.

That's why I made the case about getting the original part. It weighs 7,5g and the one I had weighed 10g. and the lightest I can buy in my town is 9g.

 

[afterlife2]

Nice looking cart. I'd like to hear your thoughts when you get it.