Search results

AVForums

Help Support AVForums:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. stereoholic

    Portable cd player for car

    Does anyone know where I can buy one of these, must have bluetooth as my cars sound system does not have a 3.5mm input jack. I've looked on google shopping but there does not seem to be much available in SA.
  2. stereoholic

    Rotel RA-970BX Leaking caps?

    As per the pics, are the caps leaking or is that some kind of glue? Sent from my FIG-LA1 using Tapatalk
  3. stereoholic

    Grado Red Prestige

    I'd being eyeing these for sometime and when I found one heavily discounted at The Listening room I decided to pull the trigger. What a beautiful sounding cartridge, it has very similar sound signature to the Stanton 681eee which l love so dearly.Anyone looking for a cart to pair with a low mass...
  4. stereoholic

    Virtual Bank Cards

    I do something similar, I keep a R1000 overdraft facility on my credit card and use it as a debit card, ie the balance is always positive and I keep it as low as required.
  5. stereoholic

    Sony PSX-70 Speed wobble

    Good day all, the old girl has developed an intermittent speed wobble, I have taken the deck to tt guy, but he could not track the problem down. Unfortunately it has a pretty complex maize of electronic circuitry which is way beyond my extremely limited knowledge. My plan of action is to...
  6. stereoholic

    Dual 505, a little gem

    My Sony dd is giving speed problems, so I hooked up this little turntable  fitted with  an Om5 cart to my Rega fono and Cambridge amp, speakers are Mission Mx4. I was astounded by the synergy, glorious sweet highs and lovely balanced sound. My new late night listening setup...until I can get the...
  7. stereoholic

    Bentley FS-150's My Journey

    I bought a set of these from Bizkit last year on his black Friday deal. My Initial thoughts were: Very laid back, sweet sounding speakers,but try as I might I could not get them to sound like I wanted them to.I was so used to the Mission MX4's very forward in your face type of sound, the...
  8. stereoholic

    Sumiko Pearl vtf

    A while back I bought one of these form Jacques (TTGUY) for my Sony PSX-70, I needed a medium to low compliance cartridge to match to the heavy(ish) tonearm. I was told to use 1.8g as the vtf which I tried initially and then ended up at 1.95g which sounded the best to me. After 40hrs on the cart...
  9. stereoholic

    Power conditioner for my system

    Good day all, I've been looking at getting one of these for my pc: https://www.takealot.com/apc-line-r-1200va-automatic-voltage-regulator/PLID34180512/description?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-4nuBRCnARIsAHwyuPrOw08BCkrjbRwZ63RZRFyu7t-A04bZxfi8XEJiumOgTohyRM0BaY0aArwZEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds My question is could...
  10. stereoholic

    Record centre piece

    Does anyone know why a Lp record has this centre  piece ? It looks removable and google is not very helpful. Reason for asking is I have a record which has a very worn centre hole and was wondering if I should try and pop this out and glue in another from an old damaged record.
  11. stereoholic

    Thorens TD 1600

    www.whathifi.com/news/thorens-revives-classic-td-160-turntable-design? With its acquirement by Gunter K?rten and consequent relocation to Germany last year, classic turntable brand Thorens is in the midst of a revival. At the end of last year it unveiled two brand-new budget plug-and-play...
  12. stereoholic

    Ortofon OM cartridges numbering

    Does anyone know what the number in the circle means ? The cartridge with the number 1 on it is a Om10, but the other is unknown and I'm trying to figure out which model it is.
  13. stereoholic

    Replacement stylus

    Where do you guys buy? It seems we are pretty limited here in South Africa.I'm looking for something like this: https://www.lpgear.com/product/STAD6800EEE2S.html. The one I have is still ok, just looking to future proof.
  14. stereoholic

    Yet another turntable

    Having been bitten by the bug, I bought a Kenwood KD-3100 on gumtree for R750, it came with a Stanton 681EEE cartridge (with a little brush in front) and after a bit of juggling with the setup it's singing sweetly. I'm absolutely amazed at how good this turntable sounds. After much googling I...
  15. stereoholic

    Dual CS505-2 drive belt

    Does anyone know where I can get hold of one of these ?
  16. stereoholic

    Rega P2 with AT95E

    Some background. A few weeks back I bought one of these when they were on special at Takealot. Before fitting I decided to check the Rega carbon cartridge with the Rega protractor and found it to be slightly skew, I then tried the Stevenson protractor and found the same slight misalignment...
  17. stereoholic

    Interesting talk on speaker positioning - Bob Robbins

    What do you guys think ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Pf0ycbyBM
  18. stereoholic

    Cambridge CX-A80 transformer buzzing

    I had my electricity supply changed to a prepaid meter last week and since then when switching the amp on I get a buzzing sound coming from the transformer (not through the speakers). Has anyone experienced anything similar ? Just to add the sound was not there before, the meter was installed.
Top