dougdeacon
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| Questions about SUT's There's an SUT burn-in method described somewhere on Arthur Salvatore's website. He reported good results. | |
| Anyone muffel a VPI 16.5 If the budget will allow, buy a Loricraft. Not only is it far quieter, it does a better job (though at the cost of being slower). Steaming is not a substitute for vacuuming. Heating the fluid in the grooves may (depending on the fluid) help it dis... | |
| Battery Powered Turntables? We use an RV battery like Bradearles described with our Teres, and with its DC motor no conversion is required. As Selfdivider said, Teres belt drive models all run on battery, as do Galibiers and Redpoints. But they're all way beyond Shazam's bud... | |
| When Cleaning Records with... Agree with the Learsfool and Dopogue. AI fluids beat Disc Doctor or the old RRL fluids hands down IME. Do you need a RCM? Well, how clean do you want your records? IME it takes more than toweling to get scummy cleaning solutions out of the grooves... | |
| Zyx Airy 3 Cartridge into Herron VTPH-1 Phono.. Is your ZYX low output (.24mv, 4 ohms internal impedance) or high output (.48mv, 9 ohms)? Makes a difference. | |
| Measure My Turntable Speed ...if I can't tell the difference, you can't.Bill, why so modest? | |
| Feickert analogue protractor....Owners impressions After all this good press (and the nice photos of Dan_Ed's system on the MintLP website) I can't hold out any longer. I just emailed Yip for a protractor for our rig. Stay tuned... | |
| does cartridge output level affect surface noise? If you use a higher output cartridge, however, your preamp and therefore your ultimate sound would probably sound better. The less your preamp has to work, the better it sounds.That's certainly true with lower quality phono stages. But the faster ... | |
| does cartridge output level affect surface noise? Yes, and no.Some surface imperfections can cause extremely fast or large stylus displacements, which will send unnaturally fast and large transient signals to the phono. If your cartridge is already near (or above) the design headroom of the stage... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 SirSpeedy,What brand of Shiraz do you favor? We're big fans, in a casual way. :-) | |
| How to remove an errant label from surface of LP? My suggestion: don't use an expensive cartridge for the first play after the cleaning!It will be difficult for anyone to advise sensibly without knowing what specific glue was used. Even if someone had a similar problem and reached a successful ou... | |
| SME V, Tri-Planar or Phantom B-44 I've not heard the Phantom, but I've heard a Lyra Olympos on both an SME V and on my TriPlanar. Different systems, but the preamps and amps were identical and I've heard the SME owner's system with a variety of cartridges, so comparisons aren't to... | |
| Which part reduces surface noise most? Restock,We use all four AIVS solutions, but as you know we're fanatics. We did try using just three (Enzyme + Super Cleaner OR Archivist + Ultra Pure Water), but repeated experiments demonstrated that all four solutions provided an audible benefit... | |
| Which part reduces surface noise most? Joelv,As Raul said, every part of the reproduction chain can help reduce surface noise and remove it to some other plane (perfect description - I know exactly what you mean by that). Some of the most significant factors include:Record cleaning - D... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Aw, shucks SirSpeedy! I've met some pretty knowledgeable people here, you included. Correlating what they say with what I hear isn't so hard. What I'm really best at is organizing a structured post. That isn't really knowledge, it's more like book... |