dogberry
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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Hyperion vs Epoch3? Yes, interesting. I've compared their little brothers (Sussurro and Statement3) and have a clear preference. If Stewart does start manufacture of the London Reference again in August, you'll need a three-way competition! | |
| ultrasound record cleaning machine damaged my records The OP states 40kHZ and 60W output. The Humminguru website states output is 45W. Maybe it isn’t a Humminguru? I can understand the reticence about publishing the brand, but the worst of all worlds is to allow a brand to be falsely suggested as ... | |
| Dynavector XV-1S Gyger, I think (if that counts!) BTW, does anyone know who makes the Paratrace for Expert Stylus? The London Reference has one, and I was just enjoying I, Robot through it. | |
| ultrasound record cleaning machine damaged my records No such issues with a Degritter here. 40kHz/60W doesn't sound overly powerful. so I wonder if it is a heat issue? | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I have not heard a Hyperion, let alone the special MkII MR version, but I expect it is as sensitive to VTA as the Sussurro. I'm ashamed that it took me a couple of years to discover what I had been missing with the Sussurro. I wouldn't dismiss the... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @jymc I guess you're a Technics owner? And I wouldn't make any bets on the amounts any poster here has invested over the years in their systems. It's probably a case of "think of a number and then increase by an order of magnitude"! | |
| 40 years of fitting cartridges to a variety of arms, I'm feeling stumped I'm using a Soundsmith cartridge on a 309, and did run into an issue that affected the last track or two on a side (though it was mistracking rather than sibilance and distortion). I was having to lower the arm to get it level to a point where the... | |
| Vinyl Only There are also albums with the inverse of that problem—the ones we buy for just one track, and really can't get into the remainder. | |
| Static on turntable @bdp24 I suspected that to be the case, but can't really say why. Static electricity is black magic to me, largely because it didn't figure much in my A-level physics. | |
| Static on turntable I have been using the Destat III on the side to be played, then using it on the other side when when I flip the disk over. I'll try doing both sides before playing the first and see if it makes a difference. The reason for using it at all is not s... | |
| Static on turntable While I treat a record with the Destat III before playing, when I go to pick it off the platter to play the other side there is often static attraction that was not there when placed on the platter. It has to be the stylus/vinyl friction that caus... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Every specialist interest has its jargon, designed to keep outsiders out more than to communicate clearly. "PRat" fits the bill perfectly. Personally, I have never understood what is meant by "air" in this context. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Just for the record (!) the S_DUO does have a shallow distilled water bath that the stylus is immersed in. It comes with several rubber washers to make the sidewall of the bath, so that the height of it can support the cartridge with just the styl... | |
| Has There Been Changes To The SME V Over The Years? I expect I'm not the only person who aligns cartridges in his sleep. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? I use a brush once a day. I have the Humminguru S-DUO, and a Hudson vibrating stylus cleaner (NOT ultrasonic even if sold as such). The S-DUO does work, but it is fiddly to use as you want to be sure not to get moisture inside a cartridge. Consequ... |