dougdeacon
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| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Dan,I only wear my HazMat suit for posting on public forums. Acid etching is benign by comparison!Mothra,Thanks for the report. If you get your cartridge set up just right (especially VTF and antiskate), you may also hear an increase in microdynam... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? HDM and Mark,My local materials scientist tells me that certain alchohols will decrease the surface tension of very pure water relative to a PVC surface. This may allow Step 4 to flow more readily deep into groove bottoms and tiny modulations than... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Oops! I stand corrected in terms of extra ingredients in Step 4. So much for speculating from the sidelines, sorry...That info and your listening reports (both Tbg's and Rushton's) do make me wonder though...Having established that Step 4 is usefu... | |
| Does the Step 4 final rinse for Walker Prelude help? Tbg, Good report, though I doubt it contains what most people normally *think of* as dangerous chemicals. I expect Step 4 is just a still more highly purified water. After all, would you want anything else for your final rinse? The goal of perfect... | |
| Cartridge alignment channel balance measurements? James1969,When I adjusted azimuth with this method I used the Wally Analog Shop, same as Jtimothya. It works exactly as he described and you can DIY as he also described, subject to Dan_Ed's provision that you use a narrow bandpass filter centered... | |
| Cartridge alignment channel balance measurements? No one I know uses channel balance to adjust cartridge alignment. "Channel balance" means the relative strength of one channel vs. the other. If that's what you meant, it's unclear to me that measuring channel balance would be useful for adjusting... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? ...the more complexity, the less bandwidth and the less transparency Words of wisdom! | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Dan,We did consider filling the bathtub with sulfuric acid, dumping a few dozen rolls in and going into business selling TT belts for $500 apiece...Larry, If that Certus table ever needs a new belt, it's on me! ;-) <;~) | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Piedpiper,One of our reasons for trying this experiment was to eliminate the residues left by the silver holographic belt. Beeswax would just replace one residue with another, and would certainly be a magnet for any dust attracted by the belt. It ... | |
| best fluid for vpi 16.5 cleaner non-vpi brand? Sonofjim,For spreading the enzyme mix almost any brush that doesn't contain natural fibers will work. I use an Audioquest carbon fiber brush, but the cheapie Last brushes or even a painting pad/brush both work *almost* as well. A DD/MoFi brush is ... | |
| best fluid for vpi 16.5 cleaner non-vpi brand? Mike,Most of the best new ideas and innovations in audio are discussed, beta tested and shared on forums like this one, not in the mainstream mags. I doubt the professional rags would waste their time, space or reputations reviewing an ugly, $79 u... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Xronx,That comparison has been conclusively made, and my Nick Doshi Alaap (FET's for MC gain, tubes for MM and line stage gain) isn't going anywhere. A well known Kondo dealer performed the A/B in his own system last year, using a customer's older... | |
| Crazy TT Tweak? :-)Maybe you didn't use it right. I bet regular flossing would keep your motor windings clean!I'd be with you if someone made a DD table which:- ran as quiet as my 320, - drained intra-vinyl resonances as well and, - had motor cogging too low to b... | |
| best fluid for vpi 16.5 cleaner non-vpi brand? Sonofjim,I agree with Stiltskin. I've used DD and other surfactant based solutions. None of them comes close to a process like AIVS or Prelude that begins with an enzyme soak. The improvement is indeed shocking.Scrubbing has little to do with it. ... | |
| best fluid for vpi 16.5 cleaner non-vpi brand? Another vote for the AIVS fluids. They're superior to VPI, Disc Doctor or old style RRL (now MoFi) in my own experience and that of several friends. I haven't tried the Walker, but it's very similar in concept to AIVS so there's little reason to e... |