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I worked in the 8-track deck manufacturing industry (at Telex and we made decks for Ford Motor Company) and 8-tracks were still big sellers until the end of the seventies when cassettes really began taking over. By 1982, 8-tracks were pretty much over. Before that, we still sold oodles of decks...

L1 can't be open because the woofer would not work in the system. Doug

It doesn't matter. It is still relevant. Doug

The woofer will have to be disassembled to find the problem. The spider is obviously displaced/warped so something is wrong with the position of the voice coil or the voice coil is damaged. Also, check to see if the spider has become detached from the voice coil, either completely or partially...

Pffft! I have seen dogs run away in terror if a cat so much as twitches a muscle. Doug

The main reason for a dynamically balanced tonearm is so you don't have to fuss with getting the turntable absolutely level. The arm will track fine without that requirement. Having the arm track at an angle - 30 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, even upside down, is merely a dramatic...

Actually, the tracking height looks fine in the photos BUT, .8 grams VTF is unrealistic. It should be 1 gram or higher. Then see what the height looks like. The low end of manufacturers' VTF specifications is pretty much invariably unrealistic. Doug

Reading this thread reminds me of the chaos of digital. Doug

I have heard some pretty incredible cassettes (Lisztronique is a perfect example) but, generally, LPs have always been superior to prerecorded cassettes. Doug

Oh no, I was not holding record producers up as paragons of audiophile goodness. It's just that it is very unlikely they were ignorant of the whole process, even in the early CD days. Believing they were unaware of or purposely ignoring the RIAA curve factor is just not reasonable. Doug

The loudness war era was not a result of ignorance. It was a result of greed. Doug

If you're afraid of damaging the vinyl, use a wooden toothpick to rub the spot and see what happens. And, it is very doubtful the stylus will be harmed by letting it ride over the spot. No sense in throwing the record away. Doug

Sound Guard was a liquid with a dry hydrocarbon (Teflon-like) lubricant suspended in it. You sprayed the liquid onto the record's surface and spread it around with the blue, velvet-like brush before the liquid evaporated, so the dry lubricant was evenly dispersed. When the liquid evaporated, a...

I recorded a bunch of LPs/CDs onto cassettes when I worked at Mountain Electronics in 1986. I used Denon and Maxell tapes. They are still perfect to this day. Doug

In 2000, I bought a 1987 Cutlass Supreme with a Pioneer Super Tuner/CD player in it. Doug

I love that stuff, too. Doug

The Doors. No debate. Doug

I went and got my '87 "Rubber Soul" and am playing it and it sounds fine. I would be willing to say the lack of "screechiness" may be due to my diminished hearing at age 71 but I can still hear to at least 15K. :D And, as to cassettes wiping out LPs, it just isn't realistic. Cassettes and LPs...

Yes, and if it had actually happened that producers ignored the RIAA thing, the CDs would have been grossly without any fidelity whatsoever and not just kind of shrill, which was the usual early complaint. And, to think that record producers were actually that ignorant is beyond the pale. Doug

Yup. Sound Guard was IT in the mid to late seventies. Quite a few of my records were treated with it and most still have, I presume, the protective layer of dry lubricant in the grooves. I didn't mark the records or jackets with any identifier but I made a list and I still have the four-page...

There was a big push, in the late seventies, to mark all your equipment with your SSN so if it was stolen, you would have proof it was yours if found. The push included any of your personal belongings with any value. They even had ads on TV. The fad eventually died out but that's why you find...

Yeah, it wasn't cassettes that sank LPs. It was CDs. Doug

Oh, and those are not electrolytic capacitors. Actually, the orange ones may be and probably are. Doug

Caps like that are not polarized but the stripe around one end indicates that end is the outside foil and, conventionally, is connected to the lower potential side of the circuit, typically ground. To answer your original question, what you have is the equivalent of a .5uF non polarized...

I was going to say. whatever you do. you CANNOT do anything that can hurt your beloved pet. Doug