Brf is exactly right, the grooves of your 60-70 y.o. records are caked with all sorts of historical grunge. You need to make a plan as to the best way to clean them before you get to enjoy them. Playing them as is, even though they may appear clean to the eye, will certainly degrade the records and probably damage your cartridge. They are not making 70 year old recordes anymore so treat them kindly.
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I'm putting together my to buy list which offers great psychological comfort until I sum up the final costs. Anyway, in the record playing catagorie is an Acoustic Solid Solid Machine turntable, an Ortofon tonearm; most likely the RS212D, an Ortofon SPU Mono GM MKII cartridge, an excellent record clamp but there are so many to choose from, maybe as a second; the stock Acoustic Solid Solid Machine tone arm, the Ortofon Mono Cadenza cartridge on the AS and stacks of RCA Red Seal Victor, Columbia Masterworks and Archive mono LP's from the early 1940's to the late 1950's and a few jazz LP's from the !950's and 1960's. The phono stage is an ASR Mini Basis. Any suggestions? What else?
I'm putting together my to buy list which offers great psychological comfort until I sum up the final costs. Anyway, in the record playing catagorie is an Acoustic Solid Solid Machine turntable, an Ortofon tonearm; most likely the RS212D, an Ortofon SPU Mono GM MKII cartridge, an excellent record clamp but there are so many to choose from, maybe as a second; the stock Acoustic Solid Solid Machine tone arm, the Ortofon Mono Cadenza cartridge on the AS and stacks of RCA Red Seal Victor, Columbia Masterworks and Archive mono LP's from the early 1940's to the late 1950's and a few jazz LP's from the !950's and 1960's. The phono stage is an ASR Mini Basis. Any suggestions? What else?
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