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| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long There's a picture right on Twl's system page. | |
| What could be wrong? The old toothpick trick works perfectly. It prevents you from squeezing the clip too much and flattening it out. A round wooden toothpick works best, just the shape you want and it "gives" a little.Don't use needlenose pliers unless you also use a... | |
| VPI RCM 17 F trouble, very urgent NEED HELP...... Thanks for the update. Did it really take nearly 3 months? | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid Another vote for the revised AIVS solutions. Our experience parallels Markd51's and Musicamaniac's exactly. Removing the residue Musicmaniac referred to has literally been the equivalent of a full component upgrade. Our records were clean and sile... | |
| How to measure crosstalk Great explanation by Tim. One addition: you need a notch filter to reduce frequencies above/below the test tone. Otherwise, at the tiny levels we're trying to adjust for, background surface noise from the vinyl will swamp the results at the meter.... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid I've never heard of any commercially marketed record cleaning fluid actually damaging a vinyl LP. (Alcohol will damage many 78's, but that's another story.)Playing uncleaned records can damage them and has done so in my own experience; and once da... | |
| turntable sounds better on warm summer nights Rrm,While factors like those mentioned above are probably all contributing (including the beer!), your speculation about temperature + Chadnliz's speculation about humidity are probably the biggest factors, at least IME.The suspension in a cartrid... | |
| step up for mc Are their any differences in sound quality? Certainly.Which is the better choice? It depends on your budget and sonic priorities.I own a PV-11A and a pair of Bent Audio (S&B TX-103, copper) transformers. For the money they do remarkably well, ... | |
| Did I kill my stylus? Make sure you clean the stylus with something more aggressive than a dry brush or a soft gel or goop. Search for "Magic Eraser" if you need ideas. | |
| Review: J&R Essential Essential 3160 Preamplifier Dgob,Great report, and nice to hear Jose and Raul have been working on this area. Raul was kind enough to drag his travelling 3150 up to CT last December. Compared to my Nick Doshi custom preamp the 3150 had tighter, stronger bass but was indeed l... | |
| Triplanar Question?? Tom,What are you doing using vinyl down there. Don't you know you're not supposed to play records wet? ;-)We do have good AC but not central, just thermostatically controlled window units. The house isn't as tight as a newer one would be and south... | |
| Triplanar Question?? Stltrains,Last night I played at 1.88g, but that really doesn't tell you much. My optimal VTF changes daily with the weather and yours does too, and they're unlikely to be the same. The cartridge is so sensitive it can change in mid session just f... | |
| Triplanar Question?? Ralph,If you're using a UNIverse/TriPlanar, do yourself a favor and try the O-rings method instead of the metal weight (as linked in my first response above). Assuming you've got VTF set right (just a couple hundredths of a gram above mistracking)... | |
| Please help with speaker choices Peter,Nick's components are essentially neutral, neither warm and fuzzy nor cool and analytical. Of course like any tube component you can easily make them a little (or a lot) warmer simply by switching tubes.It's easy to add warmth to a system. I... | |
| Please help with speaker choices Gregm,Actually, Peter can do all the things you listed with this amp. If he couldn't I wouldn't have recommended it - promise! :-)The Lectron does those things in my sytem with the relatively petite B&W floorstanders, as Dan said. (In fact, it... |