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| Jelco tonearm for Colibri Gold LW cartridge Van den Hul states pretty specifically on their website that the Colibris will work best with low to medium mass tonearms and that anything above 16 grams of effective mass is going to result in poor performance. As such, I'd probably take that in... | |
| Underrated jazz greats Tina Brooks | |
| Best of the new jazz 45rpm reissues From the Music Matters/Blue Note Series I would strongly recommend the following:Lee Morgan: Tomcat and Search for the New Land (unfortunately out of print but maybe you can find a copy)Grant Green: Solid and Matador (Matador also OOP)Hank Mobley:... | |
| USED VINYL So the jacket is not split in transit by having the record slosh around inside it. It's the right way to ship used vinyl providing the shipper also uses adequate protection on the outside of the record. | |
| Denon DL-103R cartridge update Chuck: I have two 103R's here both within .01 mV on L/R channels. One is .31 on R and .32 on left and the other is .29 R and .30 L. | |
| DIY record cleaning solution recipe needed Dan-ed: Just to clarify, AIVS 15 (which is what I was referring to) would also be for someone who doesn't wish to use any alcohol. | |
| DIY record cleaning solution recipe needed High purity isoprpopyl alcohol is really an ineffective or unnecessary cleaning agent with about 99% of dirty records and I have easy access to it along with ultrapure water with my wife being a researcher.The best commercial record cleaning solut... | |
| VPI Scoutmaster and Target Wall Shelf Look for the original Target Wall Mount. NOT the current version. Unfortunately, you might have to be patient. I bought mine for $80 in the past few years. Replaced the MDF shelf with a much better constrained layer DIY design costing about $100 (... | |
| higher end jazz vinyl: where to turn? The "modified crevice tool" (lots of variations on it actually): http://www.teresaudio.com/haven/cleaner/cleaner.htmlThe KAB is a bit more elegant but the above link is interesting for those comfortable with DIY. | |
| higher end jazz vinyl: where to turn? I've owned a KAB EV1 for about 5 years now and have cleaned probably 5000 records with it. I have no desire to "upgrade" to anything else and I've had records cleaned on a Monks in the past.Effective record cleaning is as much about technique and ... | |
| Denon DL-103R cartridge update Upgrade the body on your 103R (to ebony or aluminum) taking into consideration that you will need to be able to balance out a 12-15 gram weight cartridge. Then send it off to Soundsmith for a ruby cantilever and line contact stylus.You won't need ... | |
| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used They pretty much all do. | |
| Can anyone recommend a good balanced phono cable The balanced Jelco (Mogami) cable is probably too cheap to really garner much respect but it is, IMO, a very good phono cable. Cryo it and have it burned in on something like the Audiodharma cable cooker and I would expect it to give some seriousl... | |
| Kimber Kable 8tc V.S. 12tc I never really had a problem with the physical design of the Postmasters. My concern was more that the rhodium plating or "kimber ultraplate" that they use on them was contributing in a negative way to sound quality and possibly responsible for th... | |
| Kimber Kable 8tc V.S. 12tc I've run Kimber 8TC for about 20 years and, on a lark at the beginning of the year bought some Mogami 3103 to experiment with. It can be purchased for about $2.50 ft. and I had it terminated with high quality Vampire copper based spades. The 8TC w... |