dougdeacon
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| gloves to touch vinyl surface Better gloves than earmuffs. | |
| Why do my rolling stones albums sound bad? Every night of my freshman year, the guys next door pounded 'Sticky Fingers' into my brain at pegged VU meter levels... right through the (paper thin) dorm walls. I don't need a recording, it's imprinted! | |
| gloves to touch vinyl surface i'm a retailer and must think from DIFFERENT standpoints and that's why i established myself as a retailer.retailing deals with array of various people.Exactly. Asking people to wear gloves isn't a personal insult. A retailer can't tell if you're ... | |
| Have you found reliable online used vinyl vendors? Contrary to Ebm's experience, I've bought thousands of great quality, used LP's on Ebay... usually at very good prices. Of my 4,000+ LP's, about 80% came from Ebay (US, UK, France and Germany). 99% of those were in great condition.Early on, I ran ... | |
| gloves to touch vinyl surface I would not patronize a business that required me to wear gloves to examine used records. Why not? Even if you're considerate and careful, the next visitor may be a buffoon. They're everywhere, as any shopkeeper knows, and you can't keep them out ... | |
| spring loaded platform non-suspended turntable Excellent guidance and insights from Pryso. Always a pleasure to see coherent thinking. It's more effective to thoroughly understand the problem(s) you're trying to address and select solutions which address them than to try stuff willy-nilly... o... | |
| Rega RP10 VTA shims Of the cartridges are returned to us nominally because the owner feels that the stylus or suspension is worn or damaged, frequently the problem is stylus buildup that prevents the stylus from touching the LP groove properly...Bingo! This mirrors m... | |
| Clavis Soundsmith retip Just a word in support of Jcarr. He's been involved on this and other audio forums for longer than I can remember and his contributions are invariably worthwhile. I've never owned a Lyra, yet he's occasionally taken time to correct misunderstandin... | |
| Snap, crackle, pop The cleaning rarely solve pops. My experience (owning a similar number of records) is that cleaning with AIVS Enzymatic removes at least 90% of them... much better than "rarely".The remainder are probably due to flawed or damaged vinyl. I don't ha... | |
| Why does the VPI motor thump My TT motor on/off switch has no capacitor and it never thumps.Of course it's battery powered and not connected to the electrical system. | |
| Snap, crackle, pop The audible improvements from thorough record cleaning go well beyond the reduction of clicks and pops. Noise reduction is only the first benefit of cleaning, not the last.As I've posted numerous times over the years, a completely clean record is ... | |
| Snap, crackle, pop IME, an enzyme-based cleaning solution is the best cure for most snaps, crackles and pops. I have a $2K Loricraft RCM (one of the best) but cleaning with just surfactants ("soap") and rinsing does not remove everything. The grunge in LP grooves pr... | |
| ZYX R100 Yatra I concur with Kiddman. I've heard the XV-1S in three systems, including my own. It didn't exhibit the endless harmonic resolution, low level detail and uncanny quietness between the notes that's available from a top level ZYX, but it was never slo... | |
| when to get new stylus Clean first. It's free. If you weren't cleaning your stylus correctly after every play, it's certainly smudged up with stuff that can be very stubborn to remove. See Jmcgrogan's and my posts on your other thread for how-to's.BTW, I've never had a ... | |
| stylus question I second Jmcgrogan's suggestion. I've rehabbed over a dozen "broken" or "worn out" cartridges just by cleaning the stylus properly. The Magic Eraser is the best method for 90% of such cases I've found since I first wrote about it on this forum. In... |