ghosthouse
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| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? John of Sunnyvale...I don't know what the concensus is, only what I've been doing. It probably takes me in the neighborhood of 10-15 seconds to steam one side of a 33 1/3 LP. I start near the center using a Tupperware-type lid to protect the inner... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Crem1 - I was trained as a bacteriologist, did graduate work in microbiology and have been employed as a microbiologist. I'll be following this development with great interest! | |
| Expected hours for JJ Tesla KT88? Not to unnecessarily prolong this thread but I had another JJ/Tesla KT88 tube failure yesterday. Adding bitterness to the pill was the HiFi Tuning Fuse the tube took with it. Amp seems fine but I could do without these extra costs. The KT88 that f... | |
| OUCH My Dynaudio's have crashed.... I'm not familiar at all w/Dynaudio. Have you considered Totem Acoustic?...Forests to be specific. Distance from wall would work for you (in my opinion). Also, well within your price range. Best wishes finding repairs or a replacement. | |
| Name three of yours the most favourite drummers John Bonham - Force of NatureGinger Baker - GB and JB thought the were in a jazz band...w/EC as Ornette Coleman or maybe J Coltrane...can't remember.Keith Moon - Force of Nature 2Ringo Starr- Mr Self Control; a great percussionist...not simply a d... | |
| Zerostat? Any Other Good Options? Piedpiper - I "googled" Permostat...appears to be a liquid/spray type vinyl treatment to eliminate static. | |
| Do Integrateds sound better than Receivers? Rosedanny - I've benefitted from some posts you had placed previously. Hope I can return the favor. I think Bob_reynolds response gets to the heart of the matter. FWIW - I'd been running a Yamaha R1000 receiver (from the early '80s) for many years... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Creml - I had the opportunity to visit Berlin in Sept. '07. What a beautiful city. Really enjoyed it. To make matters even better, there's a great music shop ("Cover") on Kurfurstendamm Strasse with lots of vinyl. Unfortunately, folks there indica... | |
| Freak Me Out A 2nd vote for Medeski, Martin & Wood. Try their 1st (eponymous) and Combustication. Extremely well recorded IMHO. | |
| Record-playing Rituals? Shiprepair - FWIW, I made up some of the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser "lollipops" that Dougdeacon had described. Use the ME followed by carbon fiber brush (Discwasher, I think) before and after each side. I don't use any liquids. A magnifying lens confi... | |
| What's your favorite remake of a song Just heard "The Pretenders" do Dylan's "Forever Young". Very moving. Can't say it's a favorite - but really good. | |
| Beatles Session Musicians Who? I recommend "The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions" (The Official Story of the Abbey Road years 1962-1970) by Mark Lewisohn. Originally published in Great Britain by Hamlyn in 1988; now copyrighted by EMI. The book is based in some considerable ... | |
| Time between playing the same LP Shiprepair- Whether old wives tale or not, scientifically-based or not, I'd heard the same recommendations about waiting 24 hrs between replays of vinyl "back in the day". Seems from the feed back here it's an overly conservative "rule". None the ... | |
| Differences in electric outlets I'm interested in this possible upgrade myself.Elsewhere I've seen Cryoparts recommended.My recollection is they carry Cyro'd Oyaides. | |
| What is the best place to buy tubes? Newbee - Don't mean to beat up on the Tube Store if it's the manufacturer's quality issue. Also, just to be clear... the expected life/hrs they cited for the power tubes was well over 1000. When writing last night I couldn't remember the exact num... |