johnnybwood
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| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Onzow zerodust works amazingly well for me and as far as I can tell it doesn’t leave residue behind which is the main culprit. It will always be a problem unless you live in a cleanroom or heaven forbid use your table with a dust cover on. Not so ... | |
| Tonearm resonance HAD money for subs! I love vinyl but it’s not the only source I listen to. Certainly tweaking what I have is a worth while effort and a means to leapfrog to something better down the road. Any thing I do now could be applied there including cartri... | |
| Tonearm resonance Furshur not a lot of fans of the bronze but still a step up from what I had. I believe also an Ortophon OM2. Was considering a Hana EL. Just bought a pair of Rel s510 subs and one of my amps lost a channel right after so I’m a bit spent out for th... | |
| Tonearm resonance Tried removing the lid completely instead of just leaving it up during play and background improves somewhat but doesn't solve the the whole problem. Motor is separate from the the plynth. Good quality stand on carpet over concrete so that shouldn... | |
| Tonearm resonance I would just like to experience a blacker background and I really think tonearm noise is feeding back through the cartridge. That's how it sounds to me. I could be way off base but I thought that might be a good place to start. I certainly appreci... | |
| Tonearm resonance It's getting a lot of raves on other forums. I might have to give it a try. If I do I will be sure to report my findings. | |
| Tonearm resonance The table came with a full molded carbon fiber tonarm and it's definitely better than the aluminum tube numbers I've had (thorens td325 comes to mind) which sounded like an aluminum tube in the background. This arm is better but it's still transfe... | |
| Tonearm resonance Not noise, resonance. Vibration through the tonarm from the stylus raising the noise floor. | |
| Records not stored vertically for decades I’ve always heard that laying records flat can cause warping but I can’t verify that. Stand them back up and hope for the best. Cheers | |
| Long run XLR cables His point, I believe is that all the things that can be verified by bench testing are a known quantity and anything after that is subjective. He conceded that the ears and brain are far more sensitive than the test equipment and there can be diffe... | |
| Long run XLR cables Thanks Erik, just off the phone with a very helpful guy at McIntosh who confirmed that. He also said anytime you have balanced connections they will outperform single ended no matter how much you spend according to results of bench testing. He als... | |
| Long run XLR cables Thanks for that Erik! It’s a McIntosh MC7200 and I believe it is. I’m getting a pair of Rel s510 sub and planning to connect them via high level inputs so I’ll need to verify for hookup anyway. | |
| Long run XLR cables How is the best way to verify your preamp supports AES 48 aside from auditioning expensive cables? | |
| Long run XLR cables Thanks for that! I’ll take a look into those companies. | |
| Long run XLR cables On a side note, I I play quite a bit of vinyl in two channel with the screen out of the way but the system is doing double duty as a multi channel system and the amp for that is all connected with XLR so I feel inclined to not use single ended for... |