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| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. @cleeds You surprise me: the only U/S machine on their site (KD-CLN-LP200T LP Vinyl Record Ultrasonic Cleaner with Dryer) does not specify how it dries. I’d be very interested to read about how a machine looking like this performs vacuum drying: ... | |
| EAR 834P Deluxe with Dynavector 20 HX H output Cart. I don't know how much TdP had to compromise when he was hired by Quad to design the 24p phono stage, or whether the Chinese overlords substituted cheap components for those he chose. I can say that the 24p (designed some years after the 834p) is m... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @frogman Thank you for the link: I do know that musicologists regard tension and release as something written on the stave. My point was why is they can say that? Why do we all, or nearly all, recognise what the music is doing to us? That must bel... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Two* answers so far, one against U/S (they do not vacuum dry), and one for. I’ll clarify. Vacuum cleaning machines are generally cheaper, remove most of the muck, and do not cause much static on drying. They are noisier, by far. U/S machines prob... | |
| EAR 834P Deluxe with Dynavector 20 HX H output Cart. And to complicate it, there is the third option of combining the low output cartridge with an external SUT and the MM input of the EAR. It can make a big difference, but there is an element of luck as no one can really tell what a particular SUT s... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I think stylus profile has more to do with the amount of groove noise than the type of motor at the top of the cantilever (honorable exception: a mono cartridge that is insensitive to vertical motion). | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Surely tension/release is a neurological matter rather then one created by a skilled orchestra, a good venue or a fine cartridge? We talk of joyful music, sad music and so on, but we are simply describing the emotions it engenders in our minds, no... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Sadly, the London Decca Reference cartridge is no longer available. The new owner tells me he hopes to have them back in production, along with a new version by August of this year. Perhaps then there will be no need for a few lone voices in th... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Maybe, but we might be asking ourselves who is being a bully here? | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? As a child, the record player at home had a ceramic cartridge, and when I bought my first amplifier (in 1976), one could select ceramic or magnetic inputs on it. Excuse my ignorance, but I'm assuming there were separate inputs as they have differi... | |
| Lehmann Audio Black Cube crackling in the acoustics Ah, I meant the power circuit, not the network. If there is a noise when the fans in the bathroom turn on it might be transmitted via the power supply. Some people go as far as to use a separate circuit from the panel to the sockets supplying the ... | |
| Lehmann Audio Black Cube crackling in the acoustics Is this a new problem and things previously worked in that house? If so, not household wiring. If present for phono only, but not other sources, it comes down to table, cartridge, Cube. If other sources, amp should be included in suspects. If pre... | |
| Think I ruined stylus Some of my larger cartridges physically impinge upon the large SME clamp sitting on top of the label, which makes for a rude awakening if the music has soothed my savage breast. I had not thought of that as an advantage, but now I shall try. How'... | |
| Phono preamp with multiple inputs?? Suggestions please!! My table grounds go to the pre-amp, and the phono grounds (SME cables provide both separately) go to the phono stage. Only one table ground from each table is connected to the pre-amp, to avoid ground loops. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? The best LOMC I have (LP-S) is close to the sound of the London Decca Reference, but the Decca wins. If I had to live forever with just the Sussurro or the MP-500 I would cope just fine. |