Home
AudioAsylum Trader
Vintage Asylum

Classic gear from yesteryear; vintage audio standing the test of time.

For Sale Ads

FAQ / News / Events

 

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.

You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login


Login to access features only available to registered Asylum Inmates.
    By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username:

The Name that you picked or by default, your email.
Forgot Moniker?

 
 

Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".

Password:    

Forgot Password?

 Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:  
Your Email:  
Subject:  

Message Comments

   

Original Message

RE: I was walking past a car at the local recycling facility, and I noticed

Posted by mark.korda@myfairpoint.net on January 8, 2017 at 06:17:55:

Dee Eye,
In 1983 Frank Van AlStine printed in his monthly letter a way to modify an ARXA. It's still on his web site. Not only cleaning and re-lubing but he had you remove certain parts of the tone arm that improve it's performance. I did mine and a friends and it was quite easy. At the time he compared it's performance with the best of the day. I tend to listen to a guy who has won Absolutes Sound product of the year a couple times with other projects at prices way below what Absolute Sound is used to.
On Google under ARXA turntables is a re-build with a zillion helpful pictures by a guy named Weathers if that helps in a search. His end ARXA's look beautiful!. It might change your mind about the table.
I'm slowly rebuilding mine again.
In a military way of comparison its like the Jeep vs. the Hummer. The ARXA being the Jeep and say a VPI top of the line the Hummer. The Hummer might out perform the Jeep, but the Jeep was solid, well built, cheap, and worked well with providing ease of repair and reliability.
My table of choice is the Technics SL-20. A simple belt drive unit in 1975 that cost 99 bucks. I have kept it mint and wonder how much it would cost today. I like the Pioneer-12 belt drive too!
Dee Eye I have to go to work now but when I return I will try to get those sites I mentioned on the forum here. Have a good one....Mark Korda