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hakka26	Posted: December 07, 2008 01:26 am
Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006	I made it to an estate sale and picked up a couple items. Apparently, he spent a lot of time transferring vinyl to tape and then cd (also picked up Toast software). Boxes of used cassettes and racks of old lp albums. People handling the sale told me there was a R2R but no tapes and another tt that were sold earlier. Have a feeling it may have been a Pro-Ject tt . Bummer, as the prices were really good. Also saw an empty case for a Stanton 881 MkIIs cartridge. The remaining tt was a Technics budget linear. No vintage pieces and I left some Optimus mixers. Have no idea what the Esoteric is but it is in a home made walnut case. Phase Linear Model 1000 Estoteric Sound (?) Niles Audio/Phono Switch MMF Phono Pre Tapes Misc Cartridges and stlyli Attached Image (Click thumbnail to expand)

hakka26	Posted: December 07, 2008 01:32 am
Millenium Member Group: Members Posts: 1231 Member No.: 57 Joined: August 02, 2006	Cartridges. The M95ED has a broken stylus but the other are unused. Shure M111HE Shure M3D Shure M95ED Stanton 500 with new E 2.3 Stanton D5127 stylus (for 78) Attached Image (Click thumbnail to expand)

dingus	Posted: December 07, 2008 01:51 am
How can people be so cruel? Group: Admin Posts: 4734 Member No.: 3 Joined: June 29, 2006	quite a haul Jerome, that PL 1000 is especially tantalizing! -------------------- Teledyne AR9, Yamaha B-2x, Yamaha M-2, Hafler DH-110, EAD DSP 1000, Wadia WT-3200.

clint e.	Posted: December 07, 2008 09:41 am
D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006	As always a great score. Tanx for sharing. Keep us posted about that Esoteric unit. In today's digital world Esoteric is a legendary high end division of Teac Japan and is well known for their VRDS transport, considered by most to be the best in the world. -------------------- " Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be measured " Albert Einstein

graffias79	Posted: December 07, 2008 06:26 pm
Sound Thinking Member Group: Members Posts: 12 Member No.: 556 Joined: September 22, 2008	The Esoteric looks like some sort of device that will encode or decode a signal with different EQ curves. That would certainly be handy for someone trying to restore or transfer very old records or tapes. Maybe the first knob you select what EQ curve is being applied by the source (RIAA for instance playing a 78 on a newer MM cartridge) and the 2nd knob you set it to what the media is, like some other obsolete curve that the 78 is encoded in. I have no idea, just speculating

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Posted: December 07, 2008 10:18 pm

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QUOTE (hakka26 @ December 07, 2008 12:32 am)

Cartridges. The M95ED has a broken stylus but the other are unused.
Shure M111HE
Shure M3D
Shure M95ED
Stanton 500 with new E 2.3
Stanton D5127 stylus (for 78)

My roomie is in the market for a replacement for his Shure HiTrac which looks alot like the cart 2nd from the right on top, I'm needing a M3D for the Pilot console's Garrard, if you're thinking of selling these let me know!

Craig

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Favorite: Pilot 1090 console

MacGyver	Posted: December 08, 2008 09:29 am
ST's Unofficial, Self-Professed "Mr.PIONEER" Group: Members Posts: 490 Member No.: 607 Joined: December 06, 2008	that's a hell of a find!! especially the TDK HX-S and those "SOUND GUARD" metal hub cassettes! a big, fat to you!! i have no idea what that PHASE LINEAR unit is, but it sure don't look cheap!! This post has been edited by MacGyver on December 08, 2008 09:31 am -------------------- PIONEER VSX-D1S TOTL 130w/ch. A/V Stereo Receiver (1990) PIONEER PD-3000 Reference Compact Disc Player (1987) (JPN market version of U.S. market PD-91) PIONEER PD-M90X Reference Multi-Play CD Player (1987) (the very first REFERENCE/ELITE multi-play CDP) PIONEER CT-S800 (1988) full-featured TOTL Single-Well LaserAmorphous-Head cassette deck, with casted-iron transformer PIONEER DV-09 Reference DVD Player (1997) PIONEER CLD-3030 TOTL Compatible Laser Disc Player (1988) PIONEER GR-777 Ten Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer (1988) (TOTL remote controllable EQ with dual spectrum display) PIONEER CS-G503 Four-Way Stereo Loudspeaker System (199?) PIONEER SE-305 Stereo Headphones (1974) PIONEER MR-100 Multi-Room IR Receiver (1989) PIONEER CU-MR100 Remote Control Unit (1989) PIONEER CU-AV70 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1988) PIONEER CU-AV100 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1988) PIONEER CU-AV200 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1989) -MISC.- ELAC MIRACORD 46 Direct Drive Phonograph Turntable (197?) DENON DCD-1500 CD player (1986) (heavily upgraded, Dual-Mono output TOTL) PIONEER PD-M6 Multi-CD player (1986) (the very first PIONEER magazine CD changer) JVC HR-S8000U S-VHS VCR (1988) MITSUBISHI HS-U70 S-VHS VCR (1988) ROLAND BOSS BR-1180 Hard Disk Digital Audio Recorder (2002) JVC RM-S1 Universal Programmable Touch-Panel Remote Control (1988) ♥Aoi Nishimata Fan♥

Jim Eck	Posted: December 08, 2008 09:43 am
One of Jerry's Kids Group: Moderator Posts: 3363 Member No.: 38 Joined: July 12, 2006	The Phase Linear 1000 was similar to the DBX and RG range expanders. The had the capablity to either expand or compress the range of the music being played or recorded, they also have the capability of noise reduction. I have used the DBX and the RG versions but have never used the PHase Linear and would be curious as to it's performance. Jim -------------------- "Son, let this be a lesson to you: never do tequila shooters within a country mile of a marriage chapel." - Al Bundy Fairchild 412-1B SME arm Pickering XSV-3000 GAS Thoebe Grant Fidelity B-283 California Audio Labs Delta Transport Paradesea DAC DBX-3BX-DS Sansui TU-7700 Adcom 585 Hafler Pro 500 Legacy Classic's Tube system Scott 299B, Thorens TD-160, Klipsch Heresy's

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Posted: December 14, 2008 09:39 pm

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QUOTE (graffias79 @ December 07, 2008 05:26 pm)

The Esoteric looks like some sort of device that will encode or decode a signal with different EQ curves. That would certainly be handy for someone trying to restore or transfer very old records or tapes.

Maybe the first knob you select what EQ curve is being applied by the source (RIAA for instance playing a 78 on a newer MM cartridge) and the 2nd knob you set it to what the media is, like some other obsolete curve that the 78 is encoded in.

I have no idea, just speculating

Pretty good speculation. Here is a link provided me by a member on a sister site. There was a buttload of 78s at the sale. Haven't had the time to really investigate and audition the new toys.

http://www.esotericsound.com/elect.htm

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