dwette
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| Dusting gear and turntable @oldaudiophile Stereo Squares (stereosquares.com) will make acrylic dust covers to standard sizes and/or to spec. They do very nice work. | |
| Dusting gear and turntable I don't really have much issues with dust. My wife vacuums on a regular basis (2-3 times/week), and even checks that I have the stylus guards fitted to both tonearms before she goes into the listening room with it vacuum. I have a feather duster f... | |
| Klimo type phono stage from China fills the roll of dual inputs. 1 MM and 1 MC. One MM and one MC does not fill the role of dual inputs in my book. That falls quite short compared to phono-stages that have two inputs, where each is configurable for either MM or MC independentl... | |
| Karajan Mahler Six There’s a Tracking Angle article/review by Mark Ward that’s very well written. https://trackingangle.com/music/the-original-source-does-mahler-on-steroids | |
| It's been a long time. I have a pretty nice digital source in my system. I power it up every once in a while just to make sure it still comes on at all. ;) | |
| How often to you clean vinyl and the needle? I clean an LP on my Degritter when it first acquire it. If it's brand new I just do a DW cycle. If I bought it used I do a two-cycle clean, once with detergent followed by a DW rinse. After that, I clean the record as needed. With my cartridges, ... | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought @limomangus Same, except just vinyl LPs for me. | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought I have an excellent digital front end (Naim NDX2/XPSDR) for streaming Qobuz over Roon (running on an Intel NUC with ROCK). I just never play it. I play records, old and new. They're awesome. They make me tap my toes. | |
| Enjoying the Original Music Streaming Format - Analog FM Stereo After so much digital streaming, much of it HD Flac, there is nothing like a well dialed in analog broadcast! @motown-l How is stereo FM better than streaming? Aren’t FM stations nowadays broadcasting digital sources anyway? You’re not claiming... | |
| Warm sounding phono cartridge I had Clearaudio cartridges (Talisman V2, then Concerto V2). I mostly like acoustic jazz and classical and I always thought those two Clearaudios had great treble extension, but were rather anemic and analytical in the midrange. I really wanted so... | |
| Warm sounding phono cartridge @artemus_5 It could possibly be due to the cartridge change. When I upgraded from a Dynavector XV-1s to a Lyra Atlas I was amazed at how much less I noticed ticks and pops on my old records. As if they had disappeared. Someone I know at Audio Que... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm Wow! Really $60! I posted earlier about an acrylic platter you can buy on Amazon for $20. It doesn't have fancy handles (I've never needed) but it does the job nicely. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAHMUFW You can treat me to a d... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @elliottbnewcombjr I have never had such issues with the Clearaudio ring on my Clearaudio tables (Ovation, Innovation). I have used Clearaudio, Dynavector and Lyra cartridges. There is maybe a 1mm lip at the record's edge on the ring, but my cartr... | |
| What are you using to clean LP album covers? @billstevenson I have thousands of records, and have been using outer sleeves for ages. None have harbored mold, ever. The sleeves are open ended and my records are stored in an HVAC controlled environment. I suppose if people put their records in... | |
| HumminGuru vs.Degritter The Degritter II is the most awesome cleaning machine I've had so far. And their customer service is second to none. If you can swing the cost I can't think of anything that's better bang for the buck. I also have Okki Nokki, Audio Desk and Kirmu... |