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 ....
There's a Leica shop in Sydney full of very exxe film cameras. A mate of mine was trained as a police forensic photographer and he was often asked what is the best camera? "Mate, it is the one you have in your hand when you want to take a photo"! These days it is usually my phone ...which I suppose is like ear buds versus HiFi |
@goofyfoot My Zeiss D40 loupe arrived from China. I thought the package was empty, because the loupe is so small and light! Might have to buy a bigger loupe in case I mislay the Zeis and need to find it! It would have to be the highest dollars-per-gram lens purchase I have ever made, but it is seriously good, especially when used as directed in a 30-mm gap between the eye and the object. Works almost as well when it is close to the object and the eye is almost at infinity. I see you also have big Quad electrostatics! |
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. |
