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| Turntable choice for mono records Are you also using a mono mode switch ? And are you comparing the switch alone to switch plus mono cartridge? No one is claiming a stereo cartridge in stereo mode is superior to mono cartridge on mono LP. | |
| Goodbye Everyone Actually Pradax is contraindicated in patients with AF, per an FDA directive. It’s written into the package insert. Just looked it up. | |
| Goodbye Everyone Dogberry, is that anecdote borne out by results of the clinical trials that supported FDA licensure of Pradax? Did they even compare the trial drug to an alternative standard of care? | |
| Turntable choice for mono records Whether a mono cartridge is “better” than a stereo cartridge used in mono mode will depend as much upon the differences between the selected stereo and mono cartridges, on the two different tonearms, and on the accuracy of alignment, as it does up... | |
| Turntable choice for mono records Turntable per se would make no difference, mono vs stereo. You want the best you can afford. Same goes for tonearm. Generally , if you’re buying a TT-TA ensemble, better TTs come with commensurately better TAs. As to the particular cartridge compa... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding Tablejockey, if you’re referring to the Grado XTZ as a budget model from the 90s, you’re very wrong. In the 80s that was Grado’s best cartridge, and it retailed for near to $1K. More importantly, it was superb in SQ, and I’d rate it ahead of most ... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning Kodak Photoflo contains ethylene glycol as well as a nonionic detergent. EG is probably something you don’t want for cleaning LPs. | |
| Goodbye Everyone Elliot, take heart, literally. A good friend just had his aortic valve replaced trans-arterially, and he was emailing with me next day and already back at work. Amazing stuff. | |
| XLR Turntable So, if you already own a balanced phono stage, you would remove the RCA plugs from your phono cables. Then solder the bare lead that was connected to the center plug of the RCE to pin2 of an XLR. The bare lead that was connected to the outer barre... | |
| XLR Turntable A turntable is a passive device. It has nothing to do with signal processing or amplification. Same goes for a tonearm. If you want to operate in balanced mode, you simply connect your cartridge to any suitable phono stage that incorporates balanc... | |
| Perfect Vinyl Forever Larsman, I really didn’t ask my question in order to start an argument, but one must admit that “residual paper substance” and “substance residual from the pressing process” are not very specific phrases. Nevertheless I realize that many do as you... | |
| help choosing a turn table Yoyo, thanks for correctly interpreting my meaning, when I wrote that “if Rega are right, everyone else is wrong”. I was indeed referring to the extreme low mass/high rigidity mantra. Nearly everyone else approaches the problem of isolation and en... | |
| Perfect Vinyl Forever Others have vigorously denied that there is any residue on new vinyl that would require immediate cleaning. I have no opinion but the idea is out there. Can you say what residual substance would need to be removed? | |
| help choosing a turn table I’m a Rega agnostic. The design philosophy is contrarian, so it might succeed or fail in practice, but I’ve never heard any Rega so far as I can recall. If Rega is right, almost everyone else is wrong. | |
| help choosing a turn table Is that good or bad? |