Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:20:21 GMT, "Spiderant"
wrote:


A couple of years ago I had a lot of fun building a vacuum tube pre-amp from
a "Foreplay" (don't ask) pre-amp kit available at Bottlehead.com.


Ahh, you have a healthy interest in S.E.X, do you? :-)


Nice little thing that, not dissimiler to the 6em7 I built a bit ago.



Yup, most of us old hands can do that. Yellow violet orange was always
instantly recognised in vinyl days! :-)



:-)

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Nick

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:20:21 GMT, "Spiderant"
wrote:



He dug his hands into this massive crate
filled with resistors plucked over the years and, reading the colour codes
off of the resistors as if they were written in plain English,


Yup, most of us old hands can do that. Yellow violet orange was always
instantly recognised in vinyl days! :-)


what does a 47 kOhm resistor have to do with vinyl?

Tat Chan wrote:


what does a 47 kOhm resistor have to do with vinyl?

Do you regard moving-magnet cartridges as infra-dig?

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Eiron.

Eiron wrote:

Tat Chan wrote:


what does a 47 kOhm resistor have to do with vinyl?


Do you regard moving-magnet cartridges as infra-dig?


Wouldn't have a clue, as I don't have a vinyl rig.

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 09:37:15 +1100, Tat Chan
wrote:

Eiron wrote:

Tat Chan wrote:


what does a 47 kOhm resistor have to do with vinyl?


Do you regard moving-magnet cartridges as infra-dig?


Wouldn't have a clue, as I don't have a vinyl rig.

In that case, you wouldn't know that 47kohms was the standard load for
a MM cartridge.

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering