Coytee, Here's a web site that discusses the idiosyncrasies of the Thorens TD-124 and perhaps how to correct your wandering speed issue. http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/td124page.html#motor Lee

Carl, Chances are the first band is brown, not gold. The value is 1,000 ohms and the tolerance (the gold band) is + or - 5%. Based upon the color and shape, it looks to be a wirewound type. From the size it could be a 1/2 to 1 watt rating. Do you have a way of measuring the resistor? Here's one of many on line resistor calculators. http://www.dannyg.com/examples/res2/resistor.htm Lee

Dee, Did you eat at the original Mexico Chiquito in Rose City? I remember eating there in the early '60s. The dessert was always a cube of sherbet--yummy. Lee

Dee, Yeah, I remember Take-A-Taco but I don't think we ever got anything "to go". If you didn't want to make the (then) long drive to MC, there was Browning's El Patio off University Avenue which back then was a gravel road and called Hayes Street. Our favorite order there was the "Summer Plate" but I couldn't tell you what was served. For the best burgers, you couldn't beat a Number 2 Wes Hall's Minute Man hamburger grilled on an open flame and apple pie

Yesterday I attended a professional AV equipment show in Springfield, Missouri. At one of the mini-sessions a presenter showed off a powerful AV design tool called AVSnap. As a long-time user of SmartDraw and a dabbler in Visio, I was mightily impressed with the capabilities of this product. While each $125.00 SmartDarw "upgrade" offers fewer new and useful features, AVSnap seems to do it all and the program is free! It is frequently updated to add features requested by the users at the

djk wrote: The DCX2496 has room for improvement, specifically the 17 $0.25 quality opamps and 15 polarized electrolytics in the signal path. Easy to see why you are not impressed. Most pro gear is little better, so I modify it. The EV Dx 38 fairs little better. A quick count of those pesky polarized electrolytics shows at least 15 in one input/output channel. The EV Dx 38 uses 5532 op amps ($0.51) which are almost thirty years old and are getting long in the tooth. The use of the NJM4556s ($0.56

PWK spent many happy hours taping his local symphony orchestra. I wonder what recorder he used. Gary, In the mid to late '70s I was fortunate to tape record the Arkansas Sympathy Orchestra with PWK in Little Rock. The players were pretty bad (hence his renaming) but it was live music and a good reference for the ear. Since Paul and Valerie were contributors to the orchestra's fund raising entity, he had free reign "behind the curtains". PWK used a Revox PR99 MK II 1/2 track running

You might want to try the Generation II locking banana plugs from GLS Audio. http://www.speakerrepair.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=locking I just bought a dozen of them for my test bench them and they work great. Unlike many of the other banana plugs on the market, the GLS will accept #10 wire. Note that the GLS lock themselves to the mating connector making for a secure connection. A 10-pack on eBay sells for $ 3.19 each with free shipping. Lee

duder, Check with Al K. He found a cane grill cloth for my horns and Belle that is real close to stock. I've found that after thirty+ years, my cane grill cloth had yellowed with age and since I was upgrading to the Trachorn motorboards, cleaning became a moot point. Lee

Current theater design (read as you can't sell seats behind the screen) usually doesn't allow for the 45-inch depth of the MWM and its ilk. The 23-inch depth of the 884 allows for plenty of bass in a smaller footprint. As for bottom end performance, when I was sitting in on the voicing of a Malco theater here in NW Arkansas, the response of the multiple 884s was flat to 30 Hz and during a test screening of Transformers (digital DLP projection), peak levels in the 20-40Hz octave easily hit