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| Progress at londondecca.com Customs can, technically, charge tax and the value of the repair/service conducted abroad. I once sent a pair of Olympus OM-2n cameras to the best tech there is in the USA (John Hermanson), and got charged on their return, not for the value of the... | |
| Progress at londondecca.com I have to send others to the USA, so it makes no difference to me. As to why repairs are in the UK, either it is because the majority of Decca owners are there, or maybe Neil could have been trained by John Wright, and could easily take over his e... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! Streaming. There's always one. | |
| Analog invites you to turn up the volume When it came in printed format, I used to read UHF Magazine (originally Hi-Fi Sound), a Montreal-based journal. The editor had a bee in his bonnet about the idea that if you constantly felt the need to turn up the volume there was something less t... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? You won't regret it, though many of us use a vacuum machine of some sort before the U/S. But anything is better than nothing when it comes to cleaning records. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @antinn Fascinating! I hadn't known of the Helios before, but found it on the SS special order page, where it is shown in the old-style body. I know of someone who has asked Peter if he would make a high-output Hyperion, and it seems he already do... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @antinn Heliios [sic]? Have you moved on from the Sussurro Gold? | |
| Looking for a new phon cartridge A Soundsmith 'The Voice' fits nicely in your budget. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @unclewilbur ...I tried to post a picture here, but it didn't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Try this: 1. Write your text. 2. Open a new browser tab and find a Photo already uploaded to the web. If you have an image you want t... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? Cleaned, placed in a new inner sleeve, then carried off to the turntable. Latest was Rick Wakeman's 2014 re-recording of JTTCOTE. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner It seems paradoxical to buy an ultrasonic cleaner to play your LPs one last time, but given that you are digitising them it does make sense, and it can be sold on once you are done. I take it the Sugarcube does not remove all surface noise and th... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest BTW, @lalitk , do you know of the connection between Loricraft and Garrard (apart from current ownership)? Terry O'Sullivan founded Loricraft Audio to manufacture plinths for Garrards, but later bought Percy Wilson's designs for a point-source va... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest It's a question of how clean, isn't it? I use a cleaning solution with surfactant on the Loricraft, followed by a DW rinse. Then the Degritter with just DW, relying on cavitation for any further cleaning. Since Degritter recommends changing water ... | |
| Tom Evans Phono Preamp Repair The original repair video, now removed from YouTube, has been archived: https://archive.org/details/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went-wrong-tom-evans-mastergroove-sr-mk-iii-rjbp-fsfzi-i | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest I'd say the Degritter provides the icing on the cake, with a Loricraft getting things nearly fully clean. If one of them fails (and we know which is more likely to—I've had the Loricraft for 12 years and I have worked it hard, whereas U/S machines... |