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Perhaps I could rent my neighbour's car and park it where he is meant to, the cunt. A throw away the keys

I would also check tracking force before spending any money. Increase it by turning the counterweight towards the pivot and see if that helps. I’ve had that issue before with too little weight on the needle.

If it works then buy a digital scale and set it correctly to spec.

Fucking virgin

I enjoyed watching this while you’re on the subject.

https://youtu.be/J31RKk_7p68?si=tjRJk7Kkgdby8ndN

Bargain! Yep, definitely worth the risk at that price.

I’ve got some LS-4a they’re not that great, I wouldn’t go for those - contrary to my previous advice, soz.

Edit - Just because they sound a bit meh, nothing bad but nothing special either. Most vintage boxes will have something outstanding about them, usually warmth or exceptional vocal clarity or pleasantly overblown bass that you don’t get in modern speakers but the LS4As don’t really have any of that.

They look great and probably won’t be trouble as long as the foam surrounds for the drivers aren’t on their way out.

The other thing to consider is the components in the crossover going out of spec but if they sound good they sound good. I would only get them looked at if there was obvious distortion or if one of the drivers stopped working.

You’re much more likely to get a relaxing listen out of something like that than a modern speaker if that’s what your preference is.

I had some vintage Rogers LS7Ts which were very big, fat and warm. Something about the Rogers Bextrene drivers’ composition meant that the surrounds were not prone to perishing so maybe look at that brand.

I read your other thread, sounds similar to my story, hopefully there’s stuff in it that could be useful.

I went straight to bricks and mortar. It’s tempting to want to get started the cheapest possible route but:

Mail order from home: How are you going to get known about and persuade people to use you vs all the much better resourced and experienced competitors?

Going mobile with a trailer or something: Mostly impulsive one hit wonder sales. No repeat custom. Shitty working conditions

Cheapest possible premises in poor location or trading estate: Nobody’s coming, same problems as going direct to online.

Sounds to me like you’re doing this because you like it and want to make a living doing something you enjoy, which is the route to long term success as opposed to knowing about business primarily then choosing a product that fits your goals. In which case it’s you that’s the product so you need to make yourself as visible as possible.

Opening a proper shop in a good footfall area means you will be able to impress on your customers your enthusiasm and expertise which generates word of mouth, repeat custom, loyalty and growth. It is also very rewarding and motivating for you. Aim to become a local institution. It takes investment to begin but start small, reinvest your profits, figure out a way to subsidise losses for a year. I managed it at age 37 with £20k life savings from me and my wife. No rich daddy money. Losses were filled by doing freelance coffee work while a staff member operated the shop 3 days a week.

Make sure you continuously figure out how to keep your enthusiasm and energy in the culture of the business without you having to constantly be there or you’ll burn out in 2 years. Just rest pussycat. Hiring the right people, paying them well and being nice to them is the key to putting your trotters up in Nice in 5 years time.

How much would it cost to conduct a Need for Speed career on a coin-op machine I wonder. And what would that look like? Do they give you some tickets when you retire?

https://www.coffeehit.co.uk/products/luminaire-espresso-shot-timer?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=18113226405&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsOq6BhDuARIsAGQ4-zgVJYZT7tJgr9IVOS-QG-fw-XdLXO8IvHZTDJo862Onp9n6xUong1kaAkFwEALw_wcB

Went quiet then started smoking. Like me in my teens.

I guess that transformer shorted out, hopefully in isolation and not because of a fault upstream. I do feel confident that it was nothing I did wrong but that doesn’t make me feel much better when it’s someone else’s very expensive kit.

Watch some Techmoan videos of him fixing tape mechanisms, that should give you an idea. Can’t see it’s worth paying someone to mend it.

Yeah that’s pretty much how I imagined it as I considered whether I should put it out in the garden while it’s pissing down.

Which was all great until it all went quiet.
And then the smoke started piling out of it and was so persistent I thought it was on fire.
And then I got the lid off and this expensive looking transformer doesn’t look very well.
And now I’ve got a difficult conversation with the owner tomorrow when I was hoping just to have a nice relaxing day listening to digital music.

I’m custodian of this superDAC for the weekend. It’s a Valve Audio Devices DAC-12 R2R converter and preamp. The valves have some part to play in the DAC as well as the preamp circuit I’ve read.

It might be the best sound I’ve had in this room, it’s lovely. I wish I had my SL1200G here to compare it with fancy vinyl playback but I’ll just have to enjoy this in isolation rather than mess about comparing sources.

I’m streaming Qobuz through it from my Cambridge MXN10. I could probably be doing better - the machine’s owner says I should be streaming DSD via USB but I don’t think I can get NOFX on super hi-res. I can’t figure out how to get the toslink input working to try CDs through it, it’s not a very intuitive thing with the controls. I’ll get there I expect.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/valve-audio-design-vad-12-dsd-dac-dual-mono-a-dac-coming-from-uk.742606/

Hadn’t thought of the continuity test on the machine, would be good to confirm that it’s not a fault with the grinder.

I did send them a link to a socket tester but I had a sparky in the shop yesterday and he said that they will pick up the faintest earth connection and test good even if it’s sketchy.

The customer has an electrician coming out today, I hope he finds something but I think it’s the same guy that did their installation so…

Yes they’re earthed. The customer’s got an electrician coming tomorrow so hopefully that will be conclusive 🤞

Thanks yeah I think it’s something electro-mechanical rather than a circuit being interfered with. I’ve had shop mills with crazy static problems and it looks like that. Just wondered whether these things are designed to conduct the natural static through the chassis ground down to the mains earth, and if that’s not right then the coffee just sticks itself to every surface around it. The router thing I was thinking maybe some sort of magnetic field would disrupt the flow of static through the grounding.

Don’t think it’s that, it was really foggy outside and inside was cold today when the second machine went wrong.

Coffee loving electricians?

TL;DR Can bad earth in the mains or even magnetic interference cause grinder static issues?

I’ve got a customer I supplied with a E65S GBW. It kept going out of control - over running, spraying coffee all over the place. Removing the lid, cleaning the clump crusher, vacuuming the grind chamber, resetting, recalibrating blah blah would sort it but only for a few hours.

Understandably she got the hump with that. I replaced the machine, took hers back to my place where it has worked flawlessly for dozens of shots.

Now the replacement machine which I tested before installing is doing the same thing after a couple of hours use.

So is the static not being dissipated through the chassis earth to the mains? Also there’s a router right next to it. Could it be magnetic fields or RFI from that? I’m convinced it’s something to do with the infrastructure or environment there.

Bless you.

I use a Libra, it works great. I think the story about adjusting the grind while it’s running comes from making a big adjustment finer and clamping the stationary beans between the burrs - which will happen to any grinder. Never been a problem for me.

Yeah it’s been getting worse through the day today with the run off from the land. TBH I don’t know the area that well but yes we are well up the hill. Hopefully all is well, I left about 5.00 today and there was no problem.

That looks great 👌

No not there, we’re planning on opening in January. Northampton shop will be open with a turntable and a pair of Heresy IIIs.