dougdeacon
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| Cartridge "demagging" Raul,Just for your data points, our Shelter 901 had about 500-600 hours on it when we played the Cardas LP. It had started sounding a bit muffled, lifeless, lacking in dynamics. You know how the bass on the 901 sounds in cold weather if VTF is a b... | |
| Cartridge "demagging" No more confused than we are David. Both Paul and I clearly heard the improvements, yet you (and Joe) heard nothing. You've got way more experience than we do and I'm pretty sure you're not deaf, but you'd have to be deaf not to hear what we did. ... | |
| Channel Imbalance What we hear when antiskating is off is a loss of focus or cleanliness on one channel or the other, no doubt caused by the stylus' inability to trace one groove wall accurately. Images do not really shift sideways, it's just that one side is clear... | |
| Cartridge "demagging" We've heard significant improvements after playing the frequency sweeps on the Cardas test LP. They are meant to demag a system, and it seems unlikely to THIS liberal arts educated head that playing a frequency sweep could do any harm. Of course I... | |
| TWL's Hi Fi Mod & Doug's VTF tweak Joe,Good job as usual and thanks for the pix. No need for me to say more, this is simply a mandatory, no-brainer upgrade for anyone with a Rega/OL arm and a low-mid compliance cartridge. In all our time living with both mods (we discovered the VTF... | |
| Lencoclean - Supertonic Denis,Just a suggestion: before making the investment why not find someone with a modern RCM and have them clean and play a few of those abused LP's. That way you'd know for sure whether YOUR LP's are salvageable.Doug | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Lugnut, Isn't most free water cryogenically treated pretty much every day where you live? In CT our water sometimes goes for weeks between treatments, at least until 'The Day After Tomorrow'. | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Lugnut,Hi Patrick. It's good to hear from someone with considerable knowledge on this subject. I just copied this paragraph from the RRL site I linked above,"To achieve the proper base for RRL fluids, Weitzel designed and built a special copper di... | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Herman,I'm glad your tap water is so pure. Mine isn't. Washing LP's with my tap water, even filtered, leaves deposits that are both audible and visible. RRL fluids don't do that. You posited a general theory that, "Whatever detergents, etc. that a... | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Ditto RRL.You can read about their water distillation and deionization process at http://www.musicalsurroundings.com/rrl.html | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts Thanks, Dickson. The bearing design of the Vector (as best I can picture it from written descriptions) sounds like a great piece of engineering. I've always thought it would mate well with a 901 or similar cartridges. Your experience seems to conf... | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts David,Yeah I heard about that. I also heard the rumor that it's removable because you can't actually play the arm with it attached. Kinda useless if true. Fortunately I know someone developing a VTA-on-the-fly adjuster. He can make it for a Vector... | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts Dickson, Very interesting post, thanks for sharing. Your experience is precisely what I would have expected. I've only used my 901 on a Twl-modded OL Silver. But A/B-ing with and without the mod showed us that an arm's lateral stability and dampin... | |
| Top phono cartrige to match jfrech's system ... Jfrech,If you're still looking, you might check out the review of the Shelter 90X at:http://www.10audio.comIt seems like it might be what you're after. The reviewer compared it favorably to both the RSP and the XV-1s.It's got enough output to addr... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Raul,I will not hijack Samir's thread to discuss what you think of me. Other than you and me, who would possibly care?Feel free to email me if you wish to discuss this further.Sincerely,Doug |