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| Moldy L' Art du Son? Toss it. There are clear instructions (somewhere if you hunt for them) about storing mixed up L'Art du Son only in special lab grade bottles out of the light (at least it's something like that) to prevent what you've described.A good reason not to... | |
| MC Pre-preamps No, the Black will not work well with 45 db of gain. You're going to need closer to 58 db so, once again, either a step up or new phono stage. | |
| MC Pre-preamps Throw me in the "very skeptical" camp if not downright shocked if it would work. With a .2 mV cartridge you are going to require around 64 db of gain from the phono stage ALONE to properly match up. Yes, you might get sound, but that is about it. ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? You can drive yourself crazy with this stuff if you want to. I use ultrapure water myself. Bulk of it is in a 1 gallon glass lab container. I transfer it into an old RRL SVW plastic bottle that's more manageable when it comes to actually cleaning ... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? "I'm gonna wave my Reverse Osmosis flag again. It is the only fluid you will need to make your records pristine. You will probably never have to buy expensive record cleaning fluids again. I have a VPI 16.5 RCM and use only cheap 50 cents a gallon... | |
| Best rock song of all times I think it was Willie Dixon that wrote Little Red Rooster. | |
| question about the "analog sound" Obviously you'll get lots of different opinions on what the problem is. However, the FIRST thing I always look at when I read these analog posts is how much output the cartridge has and how much gain the phono preamp provides.As mentioned above by... | |
| Lp cleaning - scrubbing records - any downside? I'm not a fan of scrubbing. I use only carbon fibre brushes for wet cleaning. Figure I ruined a record the only time I did heavier scrubbing with the Nitty Gritty brush. I'm convinced that I simply ground whatever was there into the grooves either... | |
| Question on Cardas Sweep Record Here is a link to some info provided by Jonathan Carr from Lyra. I would put the Cardas LP into the degaussing (Cardas refers to the frequency sweeps as degaussing not demagnetizing although the words seem to be interchangeable when used by many p... | |
| Question on Cardas Sweep Record You want to use the frequency sweeps on side 1 which are on the label as tracks 2A 2B and 2C. If you just look at the record they are tracks 2, 3 and 4 on side 1.These are actually degaussing tracks not "demagnetizing" tracks. There are much bette... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Stltrains: If you have any records that were cleaned with any method/cleaning solutions that did not use ultrapure water as the final rinse/step, I think you will find very clearly that going over those records using the Nerl water as a rinse and ... | |
| Anyone try decoupling speakers from the room? Concrete floor=spikes.Suspended wood floor=decoupling.A generalization, but probably true in most cases.I have suspended wood floors under carpet and spiking sounds very bad vs. decoupling. | |
| Best value phono $1-1.5k I haven't, unfortunately, compared to the other units, but I have owned the Aqvox for well over a year now and am extremely pleased with it.The Aqvox is unique, I believe, among those you mentioned in that it has both balanced inputs and outputs (... | |
| GEM Dandy Record Cleaner - Has Anyone Tried It ? I'm with Dave on this one. Used Record Doctor or new KAB EV1 with a good vacuum which many will already have will provide a much, much better cleaning solution for around the same amount or very little more money. Tap water issues, hand or air dry... | |
| help me pick a MM/AP BN reissue - for comparison If I were you, I'd probably do Kenny Drew's Undercurrent for the following reasons (I don't have any of the albums mentioned although I do have "Soul Station" on order from MM, so take my advice with a grain of salt):1) the best comparison for you... |