may have been the case in the past but now it is a max of $100.00 increments. See eBay URL: http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/bid-increments.html
The minimum bid increment for this auction at the 30,000.00 or so interval was $100.00 [email protected] wrote: > In this particular instance I think you know what phonogalerie's maximum was > because the bidding increment at this level is more than $100 ( I think it's > $250, at least that's what I recall). The only time eBay will let you bid > less than the bidding increment is if it's your top bid and you entered it > before the second highest bidder put in their bid. > > -- Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > You have no idea what phonogalerie had placed as a maximum. All you > know is what the max bid of h***9 was and that phonogalerie met the ebay > minimum increment for the increase. There is nothing strange here. > This is the normal bidding behavior of the single FB digit midget > bidder. They just keep sending the boy out to bid. > > Merle Sprinzen wrote: >> Item number 200195851628. I'm very suspicious about the bidding pattern. >> Looks like h**9 stopped at just the time he knew the winner had maxed >> out his bid. This is exactly the reason I use "esnipe" to place my bids. >> >> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:40:16 -0800 Peter Fraser <[email protected]> >> writes: >>> Missed that! Does anyone have the item number? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- Peter >>> [email protected] >>> >>> On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Guess y'all saw that the Idelia on eBay sold for $31,100. Nice >>>> machine and price, but not quite as nice as the one Guido sold >>> just >>>> two years ago this month for $41,100. The market may be soft, but >>> >>>> rare machines are doing ok, as always. >>>> >>>> Ray >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Phono-L mailing list >>>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > _____________________________________________________________ > Click here to save cash and find low rates on auto loans. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2121/fc/Ioyw6i3ndyIFNNsI4bnvgWlTJiuX3Yge13yaLNY9wFzp81hSiVphxK/ > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > > From [email protected] Sat Feb 9 16:08:06 2008 From: [email protected] (Greg Bogantz) Date: Sat Feb 9 16:47:58 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] Victor versus Columbia big guns References: <00f801c86afb$78dd8c60$0301a...@daddell><002c01c86b6a$460b9a10$6400a...@hpa1514n> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <005401c86b79$056e7900$6400a...@hpa1514n> Jon, again, I have addressed some of these questions in earlier missives. The ideal needle material for use with acoustic reproducers would be a 5 mil diameter wire that is soft enough to conform quickly to the groove wall and develop its flats quickly, yet strong enough not to bend in normal use at 140 grams tracking force. As I have detailed earlier, harder materials are not desirable for acoustic reproducers. Fiber, cactus, and similar needles have never been a good idea, in my estimation. They are MUCH too soft and develop their shoulders that ride on the record land within one half of a record side. Thereafter, the needle is not supported and guided properly by the groove and mistracking results. That makes bad audio, even if the record is not being damaged. I don't know how some modern materials such as carbon fiber might work. If you can make them behave like the "ideal" needle mentioned above, then they would be just the nutz. Greg Bogantz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Noring" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor versus Columbia big guns > Greg wrote: > >> That, by the way, is why sapphire needles, together with the >> decreasing >> compliance in the hardening rubber suspension bits of the old crystal >> cartridges of the 1930s have wreaked so much damage on records from that >> period. You may have noticed that your 1930s vintage records sound more >> worn out than your teens and 1920s records. The reason is that the >> "record >> grinders" of the 1930s chewed the crap out of records with their sapphire >> needles tracking at 30 grams whereas the steel needles of the teens >> developed their flats much faster and didn't chew up the records so >> badly. > > Thanks for the informative message! > > This brings back the next question I have. > > Ignoring for the moment the strength requirements of the needle, what > would be the ideal properties for the tip material? > > One can imagine coating or tipping a tungsten needle with this other > material ("idealium") so as to combine the strength of the titanium to > transfer the audio energy (and simply not to bend under the weight) > with the ideal properties of the material in direct contact with the > record groove. > > Of course, we want to minimize record wear, get good tracking, etc. > > (This is reminiscent of what Columbia did with laminated records.) > > > I also recall that the use of "fiber" needles -- would the use of > anisotropic fiber materials for the needle possibly confer desired > properties? Today we have carbon fiber, kevlar, etc. > > Jon Noring > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
