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Guy on /r/audiophile inherited this setup from his grandfather.  He asked "Is this stuff any good?  Should I keep it?"  I managed to not blurt out "No, it's very bad and in fact dangerous.  I'll do you a favor make sure it gets disposed of properly."

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Porque no los dos?

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Introducing the new "drumpFZeel" monoblocks.

(TBH I always though they looked like excessive computer cases aimed at the LeeT GaMeR market.  That'd explain the darTZeel name at least.  Also, I mention this every time the brand comes up: Frank Herbert modeled House Harkonnen after the Swiss.)

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Nothing like beating a joke to death.  I showed the above meme to some normie friends of mine.  They more or less all thought that the darTZeels were among the ugliest pieces of electronics they'd ever seen.  One pointed out that "dartzeel" is an anagram for "zed alert."  That gave me an idea.

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New DLC for KF1 just dropped!  Don't tell @MexicanDragon

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14 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:

Nothing like beating a joke to death.  I showed the above meme to some normie friends of mine.  They more or less all thought that the darTZeels were among the ugliest pieces of electronics they'd ever seen.  One pointed out that "dartzeel" is an anagram for "zed alert."  That gave me an idea.

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New DLC for KF1 just dropped!  Don't tell @MexicanDragon

Dammit. I came here with my pink Venmo debit card ready to drop some dosh.

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Although they are shrouded, the mains transformers of that amp are very close to the deck and cartridge.

Reminds me of a problem I had back quite a number of years with an Audio Research power amp I had. It was right in the bottom of the rack, as far away from the deck as possible. But when playing a record, an annoying background hum.

Then without the deck revolving, I put the stylus down - hum.

It was mechanical. The mains transformer was vibrating and shaking the whole rack.

This was Audio Research's design booboo. Designed for US 60Hz, in the UK at 50Hz the transformer takes 60/50 times more current, and starts to saturate a bit. And it therefore mechanically vibrates at 50Hz. And vibrates the whole hundredweight of amp.

Hauled it out of the rack - not easy given its weight - and put it on a separate platform - bliss - silence.

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