Arkay

Thank you Arkay for your excellent postings. I hope you and your family have had an excellent Christmas and a happy peaceful new year.

Arkay,
Despite not seeing your postings any more, I see that you visit from time to time. I wish you well Sir. We might miss you(and many others) but we don't want to rain on your parade. Stay happy. Stay healthy. Stay safe. All the best.

Arkay, I've read your posts and you know you stuff when it comes to cabinets. I'm a newcomer when it comes to this and an intermediate carpenter. I'm attempting my own cabinet for my modest Onkyo receiver (or thinking about investing in a better receiver before i spend the time building a cabinet). I was wondering if you had any input when it comes to this type of stuff. Any foresight would be much appreciated.

Arkay, I have a pair of Sansui SS-20 headphones and I want to try what you recommended in this forum posting:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2601295&postcount=5

But looking over the headphones I don't see how to get them apart. Can you give me some pointers?

Hi,
I was wondering if you can post the information about the guy in Hong Kong that can repair polydomes the guy you trust to repair your speakers.
Thanks,
Chad

Hi Mark,

I got a chance to hear those puppies, and they sound darned good. Won't get to hear the entire system together for at least a few months, until after our next move (perhaps longer?), but I'm optimistic.

Good luck finding the rare HX-10000. One local place here has had at least two of the amps from the Centennial series (you have one already), and may be able to source the phono pre. I'll ask them.

I'm still looking for the Magnum Opus version of the SA-9 phono pre, to "complete" my TOTL Counterpoint system.That's the last major link missing from my "retirement" system. Phono preamps often seem (by their nature) to be the hardest-to-find units.

Wishing you all the best,
Lee

Hi Lee, thanks for accepting my friend request. Very happy to hear about the Counterpoint monoblocks. If they have good synergy with your system the results should be spectacular.

Please do start a thread on them.

My system has changed little over the last 5 years. Other than dreaming of finding an HX-10000 I am quite content.

Good hearing from you Lee.

Mark

Calasanz, I know of a couple of places where you MIGHT be able to get vintage Pioneer knobs/replacements. Send me a PM before you come, and I'll try to make time to show you where they are/take you around to them. (I don't know any addresses, and would have to go there to find that out, anyway. Some would be tricky to find if you don't know the area, anyway. The easiest thing would just be to go ask together. If you don't speak Cantonese, I can help translate, too.)

Hi, Arkay! Just curious, would you know of any seller in Apliu street who might have vintage Pioneer amplifier knobs? I read your post about that gorgeous Pure Malt cd player you bought in the area. I will be visiting HK in a few weeks. thanks!

Wow! Sorry to say I've never seen a pair of Arkay Largo speakers, let alone actually heard them. In fact, I never knew that Arkay even made speakers; all I've seen from them are electronics like radios/receivers and amplifiers, and of course tape decks like the one in my avatar. It's always possible they were made by someone else, but just as likely Arkay made them in-house. If they were local to me (and especially if, as you say, they had nice Walnut cabinets), I'd grab them, just out of curiosity and because of the name. If you could take a few snapshots of them and post them, it would be interesting; they are surely a rarity. Sorry not to be of more help.

Arkay Largo speakers. Do you know anything about them? Saw a pair locally, with nice walnut veneer cabinets.

Good PM! Currently in HKG. What store in Sham Shui Po carry preowned Accuphase and Harbeth? Can you tell me name of the store? Urgent as I will have spare time only tomorrow. Thanks! (Jenjen.dones@gmail.com, +639178004868)

Also, I'm sorry we're fighting over it, and I'm sorry I helped 'fuel' the fight, I'm not the kind that likes "making enemies" and I'm sure you've got a lot of knowledge you can share, I hope this doesn't cloud your judgment or whatever.

I really, really think you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill here. I've not once run into anyone who has made me feel embarrassed, or even pointed out the fact, that "vinyls" is incorrect. The only time that's happened was on this board, and sadly it DID turn into a flame thread... I think fixating on such a mundane, trivial thing such as the pluralization of "vinyl" is an elitist, snobbish thing, and the one who should be embarrassed is the person putting SO MUCH weight on such a small thing...It's ridiculous (in my humble opinion) that that's the kind of thing that people fight over, but then again, humans fight over a LOT of stupid sh*t so who am I to argue against this... But at least your post had some relevance to the main topic, I'm sure a lot of people don't even both replying to the question and just jump on the shun-the-'vinyls'-blasphemer wagon, and in my humble opinion, that's just sad...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4017

At the bottom they have references to a number of 'official' resources from the 60's and earlier using the term "vinyls".

After a 18 months break, caused by horrible Mr. "U.", I say hello again.

Christoph

Hi Arkay,

You have a typo in your Sig...... you are the Gold Standard around here for typing - so I'm not going to let you slip :)

PS I can't send you a PM - because you allocation is full !

Kind regards,

John

Hi Arkay,

Seems like the best DJ turntable is Technics or Vestax,
and for non-DJ turntables, seems like Pro-Ject or MusicHall?

Do you have any experiences on any of them?

Best Regards,
Johney

Hello ARKAY

Would you happen to know anything about an ARKAY SA-25 int. amp? If so would you recommend it, is it worth getting? I can’t find any information on the web so I thought ill bother you instead. Or should I understand that just because your nick is ARKAY doesn’t mean......

Hi Lee,

I sent you a follow up email yesterday. :D Nice to meet you by the way.
Hope you get better soon.

Best Regards,
Johney