A loop is the most obvious. The best lens makers are Schneider-Kreutznach, Zeiss and Leica.
What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness?
Please do not describe how you clean your stylii once you have discovered they are dirty. Make that another topic!
I am interested in what you have found useful during your inspection. My Audio Technica microline stylus is so small I can hardly see it at the best of times. To make things worse for me, I need reading glasses and my current tone arm is a fixed head-shell design so I cannot easily get a good viewing angle - the arm does not tilt much! Also the background, mainly a black mat, does not offer a good contrast.
Suggestions please ....
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@richardbrand I would try B&H in New York City for new or KEH in Georgia for used. Sorry for misspelling loupe. |
@richardbrand Yes, hopefully that Zeiss Loupe from China is either real or a really good fake. I have a T* Zeiss monocular and it’s as clear as you could ever hope for. Personally, I gave up 35mm a long time ago. I now use a Toyo 45 A 4X5 field camera that is of course totally manual. I have Schneider lenses and for the exposure reading, I use a Pentax Zone 5 spot meter. I’ve gone to shooting Fujichrome transparency and then I send it to CRC in New York for processing and high resolution scanning. I believe some of those Leica digital cameras cost about what a Hasselblad digital back would cost. Anyway, I think we got off the topic of audio but if that Leica loupe isn’t helpful, you could spend even more money on a large format camera and use it against the glass view finder.
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Yeah, there's not much to those lupes and they're costly. I use a pair of binoculars on my field camera. It turns everything right side up, which I prefer, so I've never owned a high quality lupe like the Zeiss. I have the Quad 2905's but with the 2912 panels, so I just tell people I have the 2912's. They're great with my ASR Emitter 2 Exclusive amp. I got lucky when I paired those two together. |