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| oil change t/t You can actually get Mobil One in 5W-20 or 0W-20. Currently using that in my older Gyrodec with the original non-inverted bearing. | |
| Beatles on vinyl -- what to look for ... Some of you guys have trouble reading. He did not say that "cost is no object". | |
| Jungson 88c upgrade Sorry, I just don't know the answer to that. What I do know is that there are 88C owners who prefer the 88C to integrateds such as the Plinius 9200, Classe integrateds, Sim integrateds, etc. so it will not be an easy task to find something that wi... | |
| Breaking in a new cartridge,..Denon DL 103 R. 47K ohms is actually 47,000 ohms. The 103R should sound quite good into the 100 ohm load; the other setting that you should try out is the 30 ohm load. It is quite possible that it will sound even better to you there. Don't worry about it if it do... | |
| Jungson 88c upgrade I don't know that you would get much of an improvement, if any, in the price range you are looking at. Some interesting comments here:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1121512271&read&keyw&zzjungsonMany people feel you ... | |
| Breaking in a new cartridge,..Denon DL 103 R. My experience with the 103R is that it can be a bit aggressive and a little thin sounding for about the first 10-15 hours. At around that time, there is a pretty amazing transformation and it really smooths out and fills out quite dramatically. Fr... | |
| Record Cleaners / RCMs The KAB with your central vac will give you both better suction/lift and on top of that much quieter operation. The Nitty Gritty will be deafening compared to the KAB/C-vac combo. On top of that, if you are cleaning a lot of records at once, the N... | |
| Record Cleaners / RCMs The KAB traps all the fluid. As such, it can be used with a wet or dry vac and I use it with a Filter Queen dry vac. KAB does not recommend its use with very high powered shop vacs; your central vac would be fine with it.As to fluid usage, it will... | |
| Record Cleaners / RCMs Even brand new records benefit from a good cleaning and will sound better. There are those, in fact, who will argue that a brand new record should absolutely be cleaned first before playing to prevent damage. And by cleaning, I mean wet cleaning/v... | |
| How to tell if the record is worn out? I clean with the RRL fluids as well on a KAB EV1 and have also had records cleaned on a Monks so I know what a clean record looks like. As I said above, if it looks too good to be true, it usually is. When a 20-50 year old record has an unusually ... | |
| How to tell if the record is worn out? Unfortunately, it is not possible to visually inspect a record and tell whether it's going to be ok. Making the problem worse is the fact that there are dealers at shows that cosmetically treat their records to make them look perfect. I'm not sure... | |
| New Vinyl Defects Bdgregory: I don't believe that Albert was suggesting that phono stages are "introducing" this noise, but rather that, as you go up the food chain in terms of quality in phono stages that the better phono stages actually deal with surface noise, p... | |
| New Vinyl Defects Upon further reflection, the 50% rate does seem extreme. And even the the records that I've bought with what I consider to be pretty awful quality control issues play reasonably well. It's just that it's super irritating to me when I buy the bulk ... | |
| New Vinyl Defects No, it's not unusual. Provided you have the ability to clean vinyl effectively, stick predominantly to buying used vinyl, preferably recorded in full analog pre-early 80's at thrifts or garage sales for $1.00 or less. Focus on condition and you ca... | |
| Looking to get into Vinyl Whatever table you buy, if you're buying that era of vinyl, you better be prepared to clean it. Budget $300 or so for a KAB EV1 or basic Nitty Gritty and some RRL fluids/carbon fibre brushes so you can clean those records!! |