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Really love the minimalistic approach and the walking pole endpin, which will be very useful once the perfect position is found as I guess it's still adjustable...

Not Alpher, but more reminiscing of the Peavey Rudy Sarzo headstock to me, especially like here...

Buy a 3 strings bass, or start a D-A-D cover band. 😂😉 Funny as it's often the opposite, the thicker string being used as a thumb rest... Strange that you find that the notes normally played on the G string sound better on the D string as they lack depth and harmonics (you can't change the laws of physics). That said, if it suits your needs and playing, why bother except for that unused string you throw away at each strings changing. Perhaps, just buy 3 new separate strings instead of a full set or ask Newtone to make you 3 strings sets. PS: I've always used all the strings on my sixer (fretless) basses, but that's the way I play and I guess that's certainly why I exclusively play piano now as I wasn't a frustrated guitarist, but a frustrated pianist. 🤦🏻🤪😂

Hi @Steve C77, It's loud enough to rehearse with another electric bassist (yes, a bass duet) or an acoustic guitarist with a brush playing drummer. Hope this helps. PS: Adding the second cabinet to tte Blackstar Fly won't double the power as too often read, you'll hardly notice the power difference, but you'll have more headroom.

Can't agree more (and people know @Dan Dare and me almost often disagree), you can get a way better, on all aspects, modern turntable at this price tag, think Clearaudio Concept MM or Pro-Ject X2B to name the two "newcomers" to the party.

Try the Meze Audio if you can @PaulWarning. And you can also consider at some point this tool : IK Multimedia Arc On Ear, which is a device correcting the response curve of a good list of headphones so they sound really flat, but keep their sound signature. Quite an amazing tool, which is also a rechargeable DAC and headphones preamp as well. That's why I preferred the 700 Pro X over the 770 or 990 that sound too coloured (and heavy) in the bass region, more mids scooped and less neutral, so inducing more ear fatigue and less versatile, but if you like that type of sound, than I fully understand and indeed your mileage may vary.

Over troubled water?

Donate? 🤔😂 The Allen keys may belong to Allan, so they can be Allan's Allen keys... 😉

Don't ever try to ask him something even kindly, you'll understand what kind of person he really is and what his only goal is.

Great advice, even if the owner/writer is a bloody a**hole.

The Beyerdynamic DT 700 Pro X is way better than the two you mentioned (I own one and tested the other two before choosing it). I also own an excellent Meze Audio 99 Classics Walnut/Gold (my favourite headphones) and an AKG K702 (excellent for mastering, but a tad aggressive for simply listening to music).

I was about to write this. Furthermore, spikes act more like a coupling device than a decoupling device and were originally intended for pure British market where carpet is everywhere in houses, so with spikes, the speakers were again in contact with some solid floor... That's their only purpose.

ECC82 = 12AU7.

They also make 4 battery powered combos, the one for acoustic instruments with 80 Watts might be the best suited. I own the Joyo DC-15B (so for bass, but with some electric guitar settings) and everybody trying it with a bass or a guitar is always impressed. Here they are: https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_dc_15s.htm https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_dc_15b.htm https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_bsk_40_bk.htm https://www.thomann.co.uk/joyo_bsk_80.htm

That's perfect. 👍🏻👌🏻

That said nowadays, companies building valves/tubes are quite sparse as most of them have now disappeared: JJ in Czech Republic (JJ, Telefunken), New Sensor in Russia even if it's an American based company (EH Gold, Electro-Harmonix, Genalex Gold Lion, Mullard, Sovtek, Svetlana, Tung-Sol), Psvane, formerly Shuguang, in China (Psvane, Shuguang), Western Electric in Serbia (former Ei Niš factory), but it's an American based company (Western Electric). That's all, except a few very small manufacturers "building" to order or only for themselves. All others brands you encounter are simply rebadged valves/tubes or NOS... So knowing this, you can buy your ECC82 valves/tubes here: https://www.hotroxuk.com/matched-valves-links-page-12ax7-6l6-909-0/12au7-ecc82.html?product_list_order=price And your ECC83 here: https://www.hotroxuk.com/matched-valves-links-page-12ax7-6l6-909-0/preamp-valves-12ax7-ecc82jj-12ax7m-hot-rox-uk-1885-0.html?product_list_order=price Using the same brand for both of them is the best.

Did you check that the preamp valves are the appropriate ones as I've seen so many people doing absolutely anything with valves? If the valves are the correct ones, did you try replacing them (ECC83 + ECC82)?

Because of its conception, don't look any further.

Your amp is simply picking the noise of the modern switch-mode power supplies found everywhere nowadays, and there's no real cure to this, except playing in non electrically polluted places...

I saw him live a few years ago, around this period of the year, with Nick Beggs on bass and Chapman stick as well as backing vocals, and it was an amazing musical show. He is an impressive guitarist, composer, arranger, producer and mixer. My favourite tune with Steven Wilson is this one for some reason: If you add the albums with Porcupine Tree to the ones you already have (plus Hand. Cannot. Erase.), you'll have a very good representation of his talent and musical sphere.

I was more thinking about 0.0050 bucks...

This website gives you access to almost all secondhand hi-fi items... I narrowed the search for turntables to U.K., good quest: https://www.hifishark.com/search?q=turntable

These are excellent instruments made by real luthiers and worth every penny.

If you have bass and treble controls on your amp, there are 99% chances that it's a Baxandall type, so you already have that mid scooped EQ implemented, because boosting the bass and treble controls will "reduce" the mids naturally. As said before any tone control on an hi-fi amp is kind of heresy and an hi-fi antinomy, so you certainly will not find any modern hi-fi amp with these controls implemented. Should you want that mid scooped EQ, any external EQ device in the tape loop or between pre and post in/out will work.

Measure the diameter of the jack itself as there's absolutely no standard for these supposed to be 1/4 inch size. You'll be amazed by the result as it will certainly be lower than 6.35 mm explaining the pops and crackles...