dougdeacon
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| tracking force problem Vertical Tracking Force (VTF) scales built into tonearms are notoriously inaccurate. The value should always be confirmed with a scale. Since few dealers are adept at setting up a vinyl rig these days, fine-tuning often falls on the user. Fortunat... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid Johnjbarlow's experience underlines the importance of including an enzyme-based solution in the record cleaning process. I agree that such a step is essential. Neither RRL nor any other non-enzyme solution will remove stubborn biologicals.RRL + Vi... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid Sorry for the wrong HTML bracket. You know what I meant! | |
| Record Cleaning Machine Fluid Hdm's guess re: alchohol is interesting. Inaccurate, but interesting! Neither RRL fluid contains any alchohol. Never has, never will (this according to Brian Weitzel, who makes it). Otherwise I agree with Hdm's post.SDC contains higher levels of s... | |
| Looking for reviews of Zyx Airy 3 silver vs copper Cerison,There's a good discussion of your question on this thread:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1149445567&read&keyw&zzzyx+silverSpencer,I wouldn't say the copper sounds "better". Its transient response is faster an... | |
| tonearm match ZYX Universe Moerch and Triplanar Tom,You are certainly moving ahead quickly. Congrats on what I know will be an extremely satisfying analog front end!Best,Doug | |
| DPS/Schroeder Ref. Turntable Wonderful discusssion and a succession of insightful points, especially from Flyingred and Thom. I've experienced all they discussed re: the choice between TriPlanar vs. Schroeder (both Reference and DPS). We chose the TriPlanar for exactly the re... | |
| What is bias a tube amp ? Is it difficult? Stevecham,Now that you mention it, I haven't actually *changed* the bias on my amp since I nudged a new quad of Sovtek Reflektors up to full operating level. That was last May or June, and they're running at the same level today and presumably for... | |
| RCM Fluid Applicator: Loricraft Congrats on your new RCM! You won't be sorry.I use RRL fluids on my Loricraft, straight from the drip-top bottles. No problems and no atomizing necessary. Hold your applicator brush lightly against the spinning record and dribble the fluid across ... | |
| What is bias a tube amp ? Is it difficult? Warren,My amp designer states that auto-biasing impacts the sound of an amp, and not positively. Nick makes the best sounding electronics I've been privileged to hear, regardless of price, so I believe him. In top level gear manual biasing is prob... | |
| What does a vinyl record groove look like? Proving once again that a picture's worth a thousand words. Thanks to Mark02131 and Restock for posting those great resources. | |
| Rega P9 specs Re: spacers Pete Riggle's VTAF "should" work on an RB1000, though it would require modifying the plinth (slightly larger mounting hole). I've heard nothing but good reports from users, though I haven't used one myself.Info here: http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bi... | |
| Rega P9 specs Re: spacers Getting arm height right is a two step process:STEP 1Rough in the height visually. This can be done in different ways, but the point to remember is that ALL one can do visually is rough it in. Logically, this means one should choose a method that ... | |
| Basis Vector vs... What is it you dislike about your Vector I? I thought it was a pretty good arm when I heard it, and a very good arm for the money. - No easy VTA adjustment, but Chris's VTA adaptor would solve that for just a few hundred dollars. - No fine VTF adj... | |
| Micro-ridge styli Ketchup,If tangency is off by a tiny amount at the target null points it will necessarily be on at some other null points. This will not necessarily increase tracking distortion at non-null points, it could just as easily reduce it. Sonically it m... |