I bought 2 belts from an E bay supplyer for my BG 5000, too short, they pulled the whole platter totally out of vertical addjustment, so now I only buy from Martin, until now for BG 2400, BG 6500, Perfect bands, the BG 5000 runs OK with the old one until my next Martin order.

After a hard vacation week on Dominican and and a hard catch up week at work (I hate working), I'm now starting my weekend with a Cuba and Traeumerei, die schoensten romantischen Klavierstuecke, mit Wilhelm Kempf, Stephan Askenase and more, a mint 2 LP album, I didn't play that with my old MMC4 but now its a joy to hear it again with my new

Here is a pic of mine, with the age of your unit its recommendable to change all electrolytic caps and check and maybe change some trimmers (potis), change rectifier for 15 V circuit, there after addjust 15 V , amp R/L values and lamp balance, and do a troughout cleaning of the whole unit, I did mine with Martins cap and lamp kit, and the difference

Please explain, do you get into the upgrade membership site, do you fill out the form and/or why cant you upgrade ??

[quote user="chartz"] [quote user="Dillen"] What is the diameter and thickness of the nylon insert ? [/quote] Martin, I can't get it out of the shaft . But it should be about 1 mm by 10 mm or thereabouts. [/quote] Try to drill up the hole to 2.5 Mm, force a 3 Mm screw into the hole and pull.

[quote user="Retipper"] TO those who find this thread, please have extended patience during this difficult time for your handmade cartridge. Our quality reputation for them will continue, but I cannot answer the phone, do 150 Emails a day, and build cartridges too. My choice is to build cartridges. That is why it DOES say when you order a

The long awaited SMMC4 arrived, tested on BM 2400, BG 2404, S45, against my used MMC4. Result, a little clearer highs and a little more distinctive lows, but not to my ears (old) a big difference, Stereo channel separation better, so my MMC4 is not to bad. Tested with Onkyo amp with BL 8000 and BG 5000, same result. I will recommend the SMMC4, my MMC4

After a long waiting time my Soundsmith SMMC4 should arrive today, UPS was here yesterday, but nobody home. I have a very good sounding MMC 4, a BG 2404 and a BG 5000, I will test on both decks and report back here.

I have been using a product called Polyamid (also called Nylamid) for making small bushings and small gear wheels, there are 2 types of this product, white for lubricated positions, and black self lubricating, its easy to work with and comes in a lot of different shapes, cylindrical (shafts) and rectangular bars, in a lot of dimentions. As this bearing

Thats OK with me, but why dont they tell me, if I treat my costumers like this, I could close my business and retire. However, I'm going to wait and see what happens as I need 2 more MMCs.