DigiPete

Get a Technics 1200Mk2 or later series and.... rewire the tonearm w/cardas, replace stock cable with something decent, LP Zupreme headshell KAB external PSU Funkfirm Achromat KAB Strobe Disabler (optional) Now you're talking

Yah.....

Let me know what day, I'll try to snap some pics from above in an F-16... I wish... those days are now gone, but fun while they lasted :'(

Happy Birthday!!

Just replaced my over the range microwave.... I hate that

hee hee hee Yes, even a decent cheapie set-up can show you what vinyl has to offer, as did my old SL-D3. Now a better turntable, cart and phono stage just gives you more of everything.

Worked at our Church's Annual Greek Festival. Yummy food and pastries, and the weather was great The bbq'ed lamb is what I always look forward to the most

Score it!! Great Iron.

Montrealers Rule!

Take a detour down to So Cal

I'd probably set it up once VTA, VTF and forget it....

The bloom seems very interesting. Is it fairly forgiving, or really tweaky to set up?

cool

I want haggis from the axe-murderer's sister

Some more pics, now I need to get some enclosures...

My Denon DL-160 puts out about 2.2mv, so 0.5mv is 1/4 of that. Not sure the Pearl is putting out the advertised amount of gain (59db??), or I am doing something wrong.

Currently running it uncased and running both channels with only one bridge rectifier and one big smoothing cap. I will let it break in for about 50 hours worth or record play, then do an A/B with the CIAudio then I will install the teflon bypass caps to see what I can hear. The gain seems a bit lower than the CIAudio which I think is set a 50 db. I would guess I'm getting around 40 db. Does this seem right Also this phono is dead quiet, turned up the receiver all the way.... no noise.

..... lets get this out of the way, this thing kicks ass Compared to my Channel Islands Phono, from memory: Right off, deeper more authoritative and defined bass, but not bloated More resolving and faster, just more detail top to bottom. I can hear more details, even more groove noise, pops etc, recordings sound mo' different from one another, some duller, others just fantastic. The highs are accurate, extended, sweet, not overemphasized. The soundstage is wider and more depth as well. Sounded a bit congested the first hour or so but is improving rapidly, or was that a crappier album? Pup another newer album on and wow, everthing kicks! Still listening..... the voltage regs staying really cool

Listening to the Pearl Phono right now

Some more pics

I'm in "glad the boards aren't majorly f'ed up bliss" I did some more minor assembly on the boards, sent some measurements to Marc for his trannie matching. Everything looks good so far. One board has higher voltage coming out of the regulator and zener 29.36v at regulator output vs. 30.27v 9.17v at zener vs. 9.44v not sure if I need to mess with getting this tighter or not?? I don't think I will be able to listen to them before Friday though, just way too busy this week.... arghhh

The boards are WORKING!!! I'll post pics and readings later tonight Thanks to Marc for catching my error

Yes! the wife needs to take her into the doctor's office, so I have to sit the other kids I am an amateur!! Aero Engineer, so I have enough electrical knowledge to be dangerous Does R27 always remain as 47K, or do you change it based on resistor load reqmt for the cart? Or is it that if you parallel in a 100ohm, the 47k ohm becomes insignificant and the total resistance is essentially 100ohm?

Darn! Now I have to sit here at work all day.....

I'm the typical engineer: When all else fails.... read the directions