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| Best value record cleaner/cleaning system slaw, Very well, I see your situation now. I just got the impression from your previous post that disgusts me. Whatever/by whoever it was meant to be I do not like calling names.I come from a very different culture, some things are much insulting ... | |
| Favorite Genesis Tracks? ^ Indeed.TrespassNursery CrymeFoxtrotGenesis Live - it´s a pity "Supper´s Ready" is missing as it originally was meant be a double albumSelling England by the Pound - take away annoying and weak "More Fool Me" and put "Twilight Alehouse" instead a... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Raul, Can you tell why did you sell your Dynavector Karat Nova D13? Just curious. | |
| Best produced rock albums......... The real sound of a band captured on record (production quality first, superb audio as well, at least):Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland, 1968Aphrodite´s Child - 666, 1972Yes - s/t & Tales from Topographic Oceans, 1969, 1973Uriah Heep first 5... | |
| Best value record cleaner/cleaning system ^ Ghost Riders by Outlaws blows the dust off your cart/cantilever :_) Gotta listen right away... | |
| Best value record cleaner/cleaning system Same here, other machine: Moth RCM/II. 10 years´ faultless service, deep cleaned over a thousand albums. Price app. 500 euros. Noisy but does the job. Highly recommended. | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter effischer, you are absolutely right. Thanks for reminding VTA´s importance.Paul, thanks but I´m just a retired gardener not an audio expert really. One answer for the dilemma is the Reso-Mat. Ask the designer himself, Vic at Trans-Fi Audio, UK. | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter atmasphere, I wanted to say reduce/lessen (motor) noise (excuse my clumsy English). Of course, this alone can´t fix defective motor or wrong placement of motor. Rubber mat on metal platter lessens noise from outside and lessens metal´s ringing. T... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Lew, Without even having heard your or any L07D I just know it´s hard to "beat", musically in particular. | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter ^^ Geoff is right. Isolating your deck is the starting point. I use maglev feet.I´m not excited in damping the vinyl, damping the platter (from motor noise) is completely another thing. Coupling/decoupling is complicated in any case.Sorbothane mat... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? ^ Yes. I record vinyl albums to c-cassettes and listen them in my car. I also enjoy them as the second best music media at home. I owe original c-cassettes from early 70´s those not yet Dolby NRS and they outperform CD, particularly in the dynamic... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? Dean de Thazel, The same happened here too, suddenly new vinyl records disappeared ! I should had bought as many as possible because the prices had already been getting lower and lower all the time. Hundreds, even many sealed original albums fro... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Tom,Thanks for your input as well, I really appreciate.Have you thought using lighter platters, they may very well be easier to control speed stability ? I will try one in near future.Btw, my FFYX 12 kg platter is magnetically levitated. I highly ... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable Pure silver wire, Crystal Cable Micro 1.0 also clean, very transparent, fluid and no listening fatigue, not harsh, don´t alter sound balance + reasonable priced. | |
| AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions ps68,Blossoms at 250 hours. I still have a long way to go...Thanks for that vital information, according to other threads about you are the very first to discover that. I have thought if some carts need a very long break-in time... Interesting. |