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| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? My understanding is that Peter has someone who works with him on the high end cartridges, presumably so that one day they can continue the work. I have not asked Peter that directly (an excess of delicacy on my part), but I have heard that from a ... | |
| Record Cleaning Using Vacuum Machine for Cleaning and Ultrasonic for Final Rinse My process is similar: 1. Loricraft vacuum with L'Art du Son in DW. Applied with Mo-Fi pad, then scrubbed in both directions with 10µ tip Stasis Groove Cleaner brush. Vacuum dry. 2. Loricraft rinse with DW applied with a second Mo-Fi pad, vacuum... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening @alvinnir2 Remember the movie " High Fidelity" with Jack Black and John Cusac? I enjoyed the book even more, but then, if I remember, it was set in Crouch End. I lived there, just off the Broadway, in the late 70's, and used to patronise Spanis... | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? Many years ago I used (and actually still have it) a Benz Micro Wood H2 HOMC. I didn't really find it better than the Shure V15vxMR that preceded it, and moved on to a Ruby 3 instead. That one is still in use, albeit converted to mono. | |
| High Performance Moving Iron Cartridge Candidates? Three candidates: 1. Nagaoka MP-500 (3mV output), perhaps the best in terms of quality/price 2. London Decca Reference (5mV), more expensive but stunning liveliness. 3. Soundsmith The Voice (2.12mV). Now I haven't heard this, but it's the best ... | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? My Loricraft PRC-4 Deluxe has lasted 13 years so far and has never gone wrong. Before that I had a VPI 16.5 and found the plastic wands kept cracking and breaking where they plug into the tower. It was a lot noisier too. | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening I would rather listen to the vinyl. Period. Besides I don’t have the budget to own all LPs in both formats to hear which is better than the other. In those instances (about 100) where I do have a recording in both formats, however, the vinyl sou... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening Is it this one? | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening At the end of the day, it is the quality of the recording rather then the medium that makes the difference. I'd rather listen to a good CD than a poor LP and vice versa. And when a desirable recording is only to be found on one or the other I am n... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? You're in for a treat. They recorded with a simple Blumlein pair and did minimal if any processing. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Another Japanese straight underhung arm: https://exclusive-audio.jp/en/products/fidelix-0-sideforce-tone-arm For Japanese speakers: http://www.fidelix.jp/products/0%20SideForce/index.html | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I believe that was Vivaldi's Opus 3, not anything to do with the Swedish record company! This one? | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? It would be nice if discogs were more fussy about mentioning DBX status. I once got an LP that had the CBS CX noise reduction on it. That was said to be playable without the decoder, though there would be some compression. It was acceptable, but I... | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? I saw at Lenco Heaven that someone was sending them (ie londondecca.com) an SC4E for service, so it's probably worth asking. | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? What you have is a 1976 reissue. They switched to the blue rim orange palm tree label for that reissue. That fits. I bought it in 77 or 78 at Cheapo Cheapo on Rupert Street, Soho. I don't rate as high for the content as TFTT, but the sound is s... |