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| Record cleaning and realistic expectations I always thought mold was green, but in any case, I think an ultrasonic machine might help. I have a CleanerVinyl Ultrasonic RCM. About 10 years now, I think. I have about 1500 records and ALL have been through the RCM at least once. A handful hav... | |
| MoFi v/s UHQR ++++1 bdp24 - totally agree that you HAVE to look at who did the mastering. For re-mastered versions of whatever on whatever label, I always look. My personal fav is Stan Ricker. - he did Gino Vanelli; Miles Davis and many, many others - Discogs h... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Beethoven Symphony 6 - new pressing from DGG - The Original Source - WOW Paul Desmond.- Easy Living Jim Hall - Its nice to be with you Bill Evans - Conception Ed Bickert - Bye Bye Baby; Third Floor Richard Boss Brass - Live at the El Macombo;... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? This is an anecdotal story re: wire, not cable, but close enough IMHO. My 'aha' moment re: wire was when I was upgrading an old Dynaco PAS 3 preamp. I had replaced all caps, resistors, power supply, volume pot and it was working fine. I had some l... | |
| The Psychology Of Collecting +1 rcm I have a part-time job for the summer helping to clear out and sell old farts - like me - stuff. That stuff is hummels - I had NO idea what they were in June lol - old soda dispensers from the 1950s that weight hundreds of pounds, Pez cand... | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier +1 on Decware. Steve Deckert, the owner/designer makes himself available to customers on the phone - live - on M/W/Fri. I have been buying their amps and pre-amps for about 20 years. Great stuff and great support. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? source for sure. GIGO. Though we seem to be in the minority here. | |
| ultrasound record cleaning machine damaged my records hmmm that's weird. I have about 1200 albums and have cleaned them all at least once with my US RCM. No issues. I wonder how water could damage records. Vinyl has a melting point of about 100C, about the same as boiling pt of water. So I did an exp... | |
| Phono pre amp recommendations? - upgrading from ICON AUDIO PS1 MK II check out Decware - they make great tube amps and pre-amps in Illinois. All pt-to-pt hand soldered wiring. I have had a couple of their amps and their phono preamp. | |
| Decware Sarah 300B Amp? can't say enough good things about Decware and Steve. Great company and great products. I do not own a Sarah, but purchased one of the first SV84 amps with the grey steel box - great sound - back when they were first released. I went through one o... | |
| Records not stored vertically for decades really good SD would be Analogue Productions - they just released - well you can order them - Aja and Gaucho and maybe one other have shipped - all 45 rpm, all remastered by Bernie. I have the Mofi of Aja and the AP version is much better - dynami... | |
| Records not stored vertically for decades So since you have about 200 albums, I would run them all thru a US RCM. That will get rid of any mould/dirt/dust, etc. The only ones I would worry about for warping are the top 5-10, since they would not have much weight on them. Vinyl is heavy, s... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? my manual for my amp and pre-amp - both from Decware - says to roll tube V1 - 12AX7 - in the preamp and the 2 input tubes - 6922 - in the amp, before doing anything else. Amp is EL34. I currently have Winged C's and much prefer their bass and mid... | |
| Starting a Classical Vinyl Music Collection Check out Discogs - HUGE selection of classical vinyl/box sets. I go for near mint or mint if its reasonable. I have purchased box sets of Beethoven symphonies, piano concertos. string quartets, Chamber music. Same with Mozart. Got excellent copie... | |
| how to transfer vinyl to digital THANK YOU all for your responses. Big help/confirmation for me. |