dogberry
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| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" There's an awful lot of 'post removed' going on in this thread. I must have missed all the good/bad bits. It is true that vacuum drying is better than air drying as evaporation is going to leave the suspended dirt on the record. Even so, assuming... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Notes from a previous life: benzalkonium chloride is used in sore throat lozenges and spermicidal creams. Maybe we shall see nonoxynol-9 used on LPs one day (a new way of "being careful" with your records)? | |
| Complete vinyl system, TT to speakers, for $1500? I was going to suggest a used NAD 3020 integrated, as I have no experience of, and little trust in, powered speakers, but then I read your statement that no used equipment should be suggested. OK, we can agree to disagree. So here's a freebee: do... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" The recipe above is 22% of 95% ethanol, which ends up as: 0.95 x 220 = 209ml pure ethanol in 780ml + 11ml (the 5% of Everclear that is water) = 791ml water, which is 26.4% ethanol in the final solution. The only reason not to use a higher volume... | |
| Asking for members blessings on Nagaoka MP 300 purchase Agreed that the MP-500 is desirable, mine outperforms my Grado Statement 3 and my Soundsmith Sussurro MkII. It is very close to my London Decca Reference. I can't say anything better than that! | |
| Perfect Vinyl Forever @terry9 No matter chronological age, some people aren't mature enough to deal with any advice, even if well-meant but perhaps mistaken as mine might have been. A reasonable response could have been "I see why you say that about 2007, but actually... | |
| Perfect Vinyl Forever wolfie62: not all U/S are created equal, and back in 2007 you'd be looking at lower frequency and less powerful transducers. I clean with a Loricraft followed by a Degritter. I can't cure scratches(!), but it is rare for a record not to be silent ... | |
| Ben-Micro MC-3 Moving-Coil Cartridge Thank you - it is interesting to read reviews from an era when they seemed honest and fair. Perhaps I was just more innocent then and believed them. Also nice to see the recordings being used from Opus 3, Proprius and Chesky. I still think the Opu... | |
| Which MM, MI, or Hi output...Nagaoka 300/500, Clearaudio Maestro, Soundsmith Carmen I have a Soundsmith Sussurro MkII (just below the Hyperion in their range) and the MP-500 is easily better in my system. It is also clearly better than the Grado Statement 3 that I also have. I'd say it is just a bit better than the Ortofon Cadenz... | |
| Which MM, MI, or Hi output...Nagaoka 300/500, Clearaudio Maestro, Soundsmith Carmen "Moving Permalloy" - Nagaoka's term for the fact that they use an alloy instead of pure iron. Which is true for all MI cartridges, magnetic alloys being lighter than iron. | |
| You've run some pretty fancy MC's, but the _______ MM cartridge really impressed me Grado, Soundsmith, Nagaoka and London Decca are all MI. Of those, if londondecca.com don't start making cartridges again, I'd go for the Nagaoka MP-500. I haven't had anything higher than a Grado Statement 3, or a Soundsmith Sussurro MkII, but to ... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Zombie thread alert! | |
| Cartridge question Surely the right answer is the one you like the best, and not what weirdos on the internet say? | |
| Goodbye Everyone I've always sold camera gear via ads on photo forums, or in the case of my serial Leica infatuations, back to the dealer just for convenience. Audio stuff I have given away, probably stupidly. | |
| Cadenza Bronze on a Fatboy I'm no Porsche owner, but I can say that my Kontrapunkt C, Cadenza Bronze and Cadenza Mono don't hit any records. Sure, I flatten really warped records with a well-known heating device. The only cartridge that really has an issue with warped recor... |