dogberry
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| 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... | |
| Has There Been Changes To The SME V Over The Years? Here is the review by John Borwick when it first came out, from a 1986 Gramophone. and the Hi-Fi News review. What is not often remembered now, is that the Series V came out before the Series IV. They are essentially the same arm (with the V havin... | |
| step-down transformer With an extra component and an extra pair of interconnects, you might as well just use a switch and have both connected to the MM input. Something like a Rek-O-Kut two way switch would be fine. | |
| Record player sounds out of tune and "wavy" I rather enjoy it when brake cleaner intrudes on audiophilia. It's also invaluable for cleaning polymerised oil off an induction cooktop. And it can be used on cars, including the NA Miata I bought in 1991. It seems to be the common factor in m... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Perhaps we should consider, without getting quasi-philosophical, to what extent musical experiences are transferable? In other words, will one man's "best" cartridge be perceived as being the "best" by someone else? Put it like that and it seems v... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @avanti1960 What was the $2k MI cartridge? If you don't want to say it out loud you could always PM me. I'm suspecting an Aida based on the price. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? "Strange creature"? That's me, for sure. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner Provided your cave has an electrical supply and clean water is available in a nearby stream, yes. | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Well, however we do it, we all seem to agree that clean vinyl is better than dirty vinyl! | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I've been inspired to read about Induced Magnet and Variable Reluctance cartridges as variations on the Moving Iron concept as a result of this thread. It always seemed a bit odd to classify a Decca as being the same thing as a Grado or a Soundsmi... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? What I have learnt from this thread is that a MI Cart' can now be acquired for $12K. Setting the Brand of that Cart's other models aside, what is the price jump from another go to MI Cart' to get to the cost referred to above, $6K, $7K, $8k as ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I have a new Hyperion MR, but I can not really comment on it yet. It is a little brighter than I like and I will be able to EQ it shortly. Then I will listen more carefully and comment. Looking forward to that. I could raid the retirement savi... |