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| Anyone else ever experiment with wet playback? Imagine the micro world of cartridges. The V grove is filled with liquid , the debris accmulated from manufacture to the home enviroment deposits in the V grove. Liquids give the appearence of "less friction" but the soup you create is filled with... | |
| Pls Recommend Grado Green vs. Red P-Mount for Me? The question that you posed isn't that easy to answer. Unless, we take into account the Turntable( read complete record player) as a part of the solution/answer. Turntables design, construction and manufacturing execution account for much of what ... | |
| Pls Recommend Grado Green vs. Red P-Mount for Me? Grado sells quality products; the differences between the cartridges are most probably one is "hand selected" meaning a few more quality checks versus fewer or none for the other. Go with the Grado , remember that company invented the modern cartr... | |
| Anyone else ever experiment with wet playback? Wet playback does appear to smooth out the sonics . Unfortunately, the pull on the stylas may cause the cartridge's front-end to be altered. The alternative is to properly clean the Lp , reduce friction on the stylas thereby extracting the most in... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine The VPI-16.5 is a reliable machine at affordable prices new or used. I formerly owned a Nitty Gritty that I found to be less user friendly than the VPI. | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Ghosthouse: For years I have been using demineralized and distilled H2O super pure water manufactured by Peak as battery water. I formerly purchased another product no longer on store shelves;however,according to the customer rep for Peak, they al... | |
| Problem - HF "Chirping" Using Turntable Re-install your old cartridge. Should the noise go away, you have learned its source. Should you install the old cartridge that now makes the same noise(es), the issue is in the P/A . Before reinstalling the cartridge re-check the grounding wires ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Taper : Thank you for the kind words. As the year comes to a close, just a mention of the following to Taper&Friends: I believe Steam Cleaning is creating a grass-roots revolution of LP owners that is evolving to revive LP recordings to remark... | |
| Any new record cleaning products? Pablo16: The real break-thru is the use of steam to clean LPs with or without a record cleaning machine (RCM). Steam cleaning produces a recording that is significantly more listenable than only using a RCM . Steam cleaning enters the deepest part... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Threaders: Walgreens continues to sell the Perfection Steam Cleaner for $30 less a $10 rebate, that's $20; a best buy in my book. | |
| The best CD Player for the money Threaders: Oppo has been selected by TAS as the budget digital component of the year again --That's 2 years running. In order to enjoy the superb digital, the unit must be calibrated to your musical taste using a PC, LapTop , keyboard and monitor.... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Headsnappin: The simplest way is steam, then scrubb with Lp cleaning solution on a revolving RCM,vacuum,steam again to remove all cleaning solution,vacuum again and allow to dry or use a microfiber cloth. The combo action is using the best of both... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Readers : I have come across a Microfiber polishing cloth that appears to be significantly better than most cloths on the market. The Flitz 4 star Microfiber Polishing Cloth, www.Flitz.com , is made of Starfiber @ Microfiber; threads are 100 times... | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it Michael: Think about this ... Vinyl and CD's are reflective of lifestyles . The Boomers grew up on vinyl playback. Parents taught childern the do's and don't of record playing from the time kids could flip the black orbs without sending them to th... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Threaders: Just a mention ... HarborFreight.com is advertizing a Air Filter / Regulator # 1118 for $20 in store , $27 online. I use one with my Maplenoll and feel it has contributed to my satisfaction with the Air Control System. You can go to the... |