![]() Almost all of these things have an external input and even if the don't it's not rocket science to add one. Where can you buy new music to play on it? Anywhere. Many of these old units are cheap because the cabinets are no longer in fashion and they are heavy. Where can you buy it? Ebay has at least one for sale right now and hundreds of similar models. The Bluetooth I use to play radio-shows/dramas/plays (BBC/Lucille Ball &c) through, there are thousands of hours of free recordings available online. Rock/Rap/Techno/Dance &c.) I would absolutely look elsewhere - this is not what they were made for. There is an appealing charm about something that can be repaired by your hands, and that has the potential to outlast you.īUT - for "modern" music (eg. I bought it mainly to listen to 30s/40s/50s/60s - Motown/Jazz/Blues/Swing/Dance-Band Vinyl, and for that purpose it is well suited. I have a 1952 German Grundig 6012 "MusikSchrank" that would have cost $2,500 new - and although I have heard many record players that sound better, I have also heard many that sound much worse. > ancient, terrible sounding console record player. > According to Amazon, damn near zero of the top selling albums of 2016 are available on vinyl. The mods are somewhat flexible with the rules as long as the OP explains in the comments. Please remember to abide by Reddiquette.To make it easier for the community to help, also include your budget (if any) and what country you are buying in.Ħ please be descriptive with your posting, posts must include the products brand, years owned or date of purchase, circa the decade is acceptable on items older than 1990Ĩ /r/BuyItForLife is not a place to advertise your business or sell your product. Requests Must be flaired with the request flair and if you are satisfied with the answers please mark the post as such.Ģb be sure to first use the search bar and check the sidebar before making a request. ![]() Products that are well-made and durable (even if they won't last a lifetime) are accepted.Ģa Requests are posts where you are looking for help/recommendations on a certain type of a product or Opinions on a certain item. P.S.For practical, durable and quality made products that are made to last.ġ This is a subreddit emphasizing products that are Durable, Practical, Proven, and Made-to-Last. Maybe with older amps this could be more useful, but I think it is nothing that you are not able to do with good quality multimeter. ![]() This might be a stupid question, but could someone clarify me that why someone wants to read the plate voltage each time you set the bias for your amp's tubes? Ain't that fixed and if everything is OK it should remain that way? I think that usually this information can be found from manual or by asking from the manufacturer (esp. Also, sometimes I have been a bit surprised about the matched quartet of tubes not being that well matched and those are the cases when the 4 "simultaneus" probes are handy. ![]() I would also argue that to certain level it may be said that these products are safer to use. have is that they have the possibility to measure each tube separately, but still in a way "simultaneously" without turning the amp off and changing the probe to other tube. The main advantage I consider that these bias masters, rites, etc. Speciality product in niche market often leads into speciality price. My personal opinion is that it is good product that has its place on market (as well as the Weber's product, etc.), but people do have issues with accepting the set price-level. multimeter I don't see much reason why to purchase any of these unless you have additional cash and are biasing rather often. Extremely expensive as there is nothing fancy, but it is easy and fast to use. What's your favourite one? Please share your experience and suggestions, it may help a lotta folks out there (me included ). Other features can be found on the product pages. REPLACEMENTS: $35 + shipment for a dual octal probe TUBES SHOWN/TESTED AT THE SAME TIME: 2 (with one Dual octal probe) or 4 (with two Dual octal probes) the unit automatically recognizes how many probes are connected. PRICE: $150 (control unit only) + $35 (dual octal probe) + shipment REPLACEMENTS: $29.99 + shipment for a single octal probe REPLACEMENTS: €35,00 + shipment for a pair of octal spare probes ( EQBMP) REPLACEMENTS: €49,00 + shipment for a pair of octal spare probes ( BMA2) REPLACEMENTS: $25 a head + return shipping (the unit needs to be sent back to factory to be fixed) Weber Bias Rite BR-4 (octal) ** DISCONTINUED ** Well, I'm looking for a good bias probe for my VH4 and this is what I found (please consider I used the 4-probes version where available as suggested by Papa Peter himself We started talking about this stuff in another bias-related thread, but I thought it would have been useful to open a new one as a point of reference for all the users.
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