gerrym5
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| Record cleaning machine Lifihi.guy is right. The VPI 16.5 is great for cleaning volumes of records well and will last forever. Only reason to go up a VPI-17F would be if if you are cleaning thousands of records and trying to do 50+ an hour. Save the bucks and put those $... | |
| Top manufacturers! I'll ditto the recommendations of ARC, Levinson and Krell. Certainly these manufacturers have produced excellent products and have a good history of customer support. These are vendors are "solid", kind of the McIntosh of the last decade (even lon... | |
| Worst Music of All-Time No accounting for what one person's taste in music are, but the worst I have ever heard is "Electric Love" on Mercury Limelight LS-86072. Electronic mesh-mash by a group that never did anything. Picture this, blend 1950 instrmental easy listening ... | |
| Cleaning Vinyl Do not use Photo Flow at full strenght on vinyl! That is not what I was suggesting. Two drops of it in 16 oz fluid solution shouldn't hurt new or old dirty vinyl, but I only use it on cleaning those very dirty records. Do others have a better sugg... | |
| PS Audio PS-300 one each for mono amps? Thanks for your comments. Mailed PS audio with my question and Paul M wrote back to try 3 P-300s first on 30 day home trail. That's my plan. I'll what I think of the home trail. Had lunch with Jack Bybee and he said the P-300 impressed him as bein... | |
| Cleaning Vinyl Good advice by others. I never felt comfortable using dishwasher soap of any kind. Buy a new or used record cleaning machine! I have used a VPI-17F for years and it is great. I use a three step process, clean (homemade recipes), preserve (last), c... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Iceraven, excellent pointer you gave! Solid advice and a good starting point for anyone. | |
| need an integrated amp, only 700$ left.. I concurr the the Audio Refinement recommendation. If you're willing to buy used or a demo unit I would recommend the Audio Anologue Puccini SE. At $312 the NAD C-340, available from from various sources, is hard to beat. Not as good as the previo... | |
| Amp stands- Do they work? Do they work? Probably not as well as advertised. From an engineering concept and point of view a benefit can be had buy carefully controlling vibrations and draining them properly. First approximations by good intuition could yield good results. ... | |
| Best system for opera lover at $30,000 Try to find used Avant Garde Trios, Wavelenght Electronics, Aesthetix phono, Graham arm on any of these (Basis or VPI TNT), Koetsu (model your choice), and if you must have digital a CD-50. This would be a very musical system. The Opera musical we... | |
| List or discuss your favorite music Thank you. That really helps, and nice touch on All Music Guide also. | |
| Turntable isolation.... Nice table! I am using Arcici Air Suspension set up suspended from 4x6 house beams in isolated cabinet. The Arcici is very good and useable is surface is 23.3 x 23.3 inches. It does a nice job in both vertical and horizontal vibration handling. Be... | |
| CD vs. SACD vs. DVD-Audio vs Vinyl vs... Carl, You should follow your "14 years of expereinece with using Armor All on plastics and rubber, and it always elimated the aging process (cleans and makes it shine too)altogether, Zero" and clean your vinyl collection with Armor All. Afterall i... | |
| CD vs. SACD vs. DVD-Audio vs Vinyl vs... Yes and No. I followed the development of a competitive automotive product "331" that specifically competes against Armor All. It was formulated by a chemical engineer eliminating all of the dehydrating chemicals used in Armor All. The president o... | |
| R 2 D 4 Music Direct has a special on the few Argenta's they have left ~$189. Hurry, it is a must have set Spanish classical music performances and recorded extremely well. These pressings are flawless, 10+! Gerrym5 |