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| Miyajima MADAKE experience The RS-A1 is a bit crazy in some design aspects, but I believe the basic notion of an underhung tonearm with zero headshell offset angle has merit, and that’s why it sounds good. See debates on this subject elsewhere with respect to the Viv Float ... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Wrm, having visited a branch of Hifido during a recent visit to Tokyo, I’m wondering how they ever do business. Anything of real interest in that shop was marked as being under negotiation, therefore not for sale. How long can it take to “negotiat... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Chakster hasn’t chimed in well over a year. We hope he’s ok. Why do you ask whether using the RS-A1 might be insane? Yes, it’s finicky, and one fears accidents that might damage the cartridge, but the RS-A1 in service usually brings out good quali... | |
| Tube Preamp, uses 6sn7/6sl7. With or Without Phono; With or Without Remote Volume, Pindac, I don’t understand why you cannot name the guru of whom you speak. Surely he does not do business in anonymity. But is it Thomas Meyer? | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading I personally would use 47K ohms for a load with a HOMC cartridge. I agree. Reason why not many phono stages offer multiple choices for cartridge loading is that the switching mechanism itself, unless done rigorously, can add noise, etc. It's a ... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading What Mulveling wrote is relevant information, but if you know that you prefer a 1K load with your particular version of the Glider, that is the dominant information. If you plan to keep your Glider for the foreseeable future, then it is almost ce... | |
| Tube Preamp, uses 6sn7/6sl7. With or Without Phono; With or Without Remote Volume, MFA Luminescence. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Yes, I was thinking after my last post that photoelectron spectroscopy might do what I asked for. Have you identified molecules that elute with IPA? In this regard, is ethanol safer? Thx. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Ljgerens, please define “dilute solutions” . Also, in an earlier post you mentioned your analytical techniques. I don’t recall a procedure that permits detection of “additives “ in vinyl, before vs after cleaning, whatever those additives may be. ... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Speaking for myself, I wash newly acquired "pre-owned" LPs, only. I buy only pristine copies, when I do buy pre-owned LPs. (Of course, I also do buy new LPs.) I wash newly acquired pre-owned LPs just once. Then I put a circular sticker on the albu... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" As I hoped to convey, I have no problem with Wizzzard's recommended approach, but it does differ from what I have been doing for at least 20 years, in that his formula uses ethanol, and I've been using isopropanol, specifically lab grade 98% isopr... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Dear wizzzard, while I agree that you did hint that the reason not to use IPA has to do with its capacity to damage vinyl, my point in rehashing the issue is simply to learn the mechanism by which e.g. 25% IPA might damage vinyl, because I can fin... | |
| Modwright PH 9.0X Tube Rolling Question I agree that tube rectification adds a certain je ne c’est quoi, but I have never understood why. Among solid state rectifiers, only Schottkly diodes equal or surpass tube rectifiers in my personal experience. (Others may legitimately differ.) Do... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Please forgive me; I’m using a cell phone on a moving train. I’ve been doing some research on how alcohols affect surface tension of water, here on the train. I found this publication from 1995: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/je00019a016 Th... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Drums, maybe apart from a bass drum, are not really low bass. Anyway there’s little to be gained from a verbal discussion of this subject. We both know what we are after. |