dogberry
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| Liquid Stylus Cleaners Owners of cantileverless cartridges (Decca, Ikeda) or super short cantilevers (Dynavector Karat) should probably avoid using stylus liquids. It is far too likely to get into the body of the cartridge, where it can cause all sorts of corrosion. I'v... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live My Quad 2905s have a pair of extra panels over the usual arrangement of the 63 and later models. They aren't bad at bass, but it is rather polite. Fine for classical music, but not really authentic for good recordings of small ensembles. My fix fo... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Here we go. Another thread ruined by the usual culprit. | |
| Cartridges I haven't had the pleasure of hearing an Epoch3 or Aeon3, but the Statement3 has taught me a lesson. With an output of 1mV it can be used as an MM or as an MC as far as the phono stage is concerned. I found it decidedly boring connected as an MM b... | |
| Cartridges I'd say always get the best cartridge you can afford, whatever that might be. | |
| Field coil dava cartridge I'm an ocean away from you, I believe, so I'll be happy to make do with the good wishes implicit in your offer. Thank you for those! | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live You have to remember That my system is line source. It's volume does not fade with distance like a point source system will. There's probably a Nobel waiting for someone to show the inverse square law doesn't apply to sound from any source. | |
| Field coil dava cartridge Actually, @pindac , I have been housebound for a long time now. CLL wrecks one's immunity at the best of times, but when you add in a bone marrow transplant and a pandemic, I have to be very careful. My hi-fi is bringing me soup and sanity, and wi... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge I lived in Camden 1976-1977, and between The Hippodrome/Camden Palace/KoKo and Dingwall and on up to the Roundhouse there was lots to slip up on adorning the sidewalks (or pavements as we Brits call them)! Or was Peoples Vomit a punk band I missed? | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? BBC Singers at The Edinburgh Festival, with Sofi Jeannin (mezzo) and arranged by Paul Drayton. I don't have a recording, but heard it on CBC radio (we have great FM reception here, but a pity the CBC plays mostly dreck these days). | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? It was the first really good one you heard and it left an indelible impression on you. I daresay there is something in what you say - first love and all that. The eye-opening (ear-opening?) experience that reveals previously unknown possibilit... | |
| SME V service manual/parts list smetonearms.com are no longer authorized SME dealers. They used to be the distributor for Canada too (and there is much bad blood about them losing that to Bluebird Music!) | |
| SME V service manual/parts list Rather than do any risky surgery I'd use a $25 digital scale - which is what I do anyway with my Series V. | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners I think the main change for the Degritter Pro is that it uses two baths, with one reserved for rinsing. It automates what many people already do by swapping the tank with a second one for a DW rinse. I can take my cleaned record out of the Degrit... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @teo_audio I was interested to hear your comments on Canadian pressings. My brother and I both grew up in the UK and bought records there. He moved to Canada in 1978 and I followed him in 1985. I now have all his LPs, and so there are several wher... |