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Somewhere in between Monica Zetterlund and Astrud Gilberto there’s Lill Lindfors. This lush dreamy Scandi-Bossa nova record is just too cool. Lill with Swedish jazz legend Bengt Hallberg ’Mellan dröm och verklighet’. Swedish 70s midsummer night vibes pressed onto vinyl, maybe not everyone's cup of sill but Lill needs some love.

Lill Lindfors - Mellan dröm och verklighet (Between dream and reality, 1970):
https://youtu.be/xAs8xgtajIk?si=ZJLle8YvluHenHqg

Never listened to Moody but picked up this record only because of the cool cover design by Michael Reid, but listening to it now and it’s great (recorded “live” at The Jazz Workshop in San Fran 1961). Super smooth sax work and a very nicely mastered wide and lush stereo image. Might need to listen to more stuff by Moody now.

Speed shift is happening occasionally on my Beogram 4002, pitch dropping rapidly and then it seems to stabilize. Is this behaviour likely due to oxidized speed trimmers and failing capacitors in the servo circuit or does a DC motor with dry bearings show this erratic behaviour? Motor runs pretty silently, no obvious friction noise. Same behaviour with original and new belt, and cleaning the subplatter and motor pulley did not help. I would like to think dry motor bearings would leave the motor running constantly out of speed or be mechanically noisey.

Drastic short drop in speed happening mid-video, after 9-10 sec.

Is it likely an electrical or mechanical failure? Or maybe a combination?

Hi, I have no knowledge about tubes whatsoever but I suspect the tube sitting in the preamp stage of my Audio Analogue Primo Cento VT amplifier has reached the end of its life. It’s still glowing faintly and the amp sounds alright using streamer into aux (I got no reference for how “it’s supposed to sound” when factory spec’ed as I bought it second hand). The phono stage does sound really dull though, and I suspect the tube life might be the issue.

The tube says:
6DJ8E
Made in Yugoslavia

“Made in Yugoslavia” (meaning pre-1992) suggests that this isn't the original 2008 factory-fitted tube, and the previous owner has probably replaced the factory-fitted tube with a vintage one.

Anyone here got an idea for a good replacement tube?

Stupid question, but I’ve mainly used Beogram MMC cartridges, never dabbled with ordinary removable stylus type cartridges so I have no idea how to remove the stylus from an Audio Technica cartridge. The internet says just pull straight-downward but I’m afraid I will destroy the tonearm/cartridge as it won't budge. Do I have to remove the headshell? The turntable is a Mitsubishi LT-5V.

Replaced a faulty fixed RCA cable on my Mitsubishi LT-5V turntable, I’m pretty inexperienced when it comes to soldering, and not sure if the result is acceptable. Now it sounds alright again so I guess electrically the joints work, but the wires should ideally sit more snugly fitted on the pads, leaving less exposed bare wire.

First image is my fix, second image original joints.

Is it worth correcting, with the risk of messing up the PCB? Or should I leave it like this?