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| Vinyl Lovers What data support the idea that zerostat can “only handle so much static charge”? And how much is that? | |
| Vinyl Lovers If you're correct, then it must emit positive ions when the retracted trigger is slowly released, because that is the step that neutralizes charge on an LP surface. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights And a mechanism for damping the oscillation at the resonant frequency. Otherwise, the TT will constantly bounce at its resonant frequency, once excited. How does a car do without shock absorbers? This has been an issue with spring loaded TTs si... | |
| Vinyl Lovers Ketchup, you may be correct about zerostat emitting both pos and negative ions, which is a subject I didn’t address, but what counts is neutralizing the negative charge on the vinyl surface. Which was my only point. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum The quoted spec is always DC resistance, even though we sometimes speak of the internal DC resistance as “impedance”. So if the factory spec is 1.4 ohms and 1.8 ohms was measured across the coils, that is a real deviation from the factory spec. Ho... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning According to data sheet available on the internet, Ilfotol contains "5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazoline-3-one and 2-methyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one". So this is different from the nonionic detergents like Triton X100 or the Tergitols that have been disc... | |
| Vinyl Lovers jackster, In my experience felt causes static electric charge buldup on vinyl. So I would not use a felt brush or pad to keep dust away. Also, to ameliorate the static charge, you do not want a demagnetizer. You want a positive ion generator, a... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? I did a little internet searching on the question of where most cartridges are manufactured. Ortofon is listed as the largest producer of cartridges, and so far as I can find out, all their cartridges are made in Denmark. I had previously assumed... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? Herman, why are you so agitated? Maybe I’m wrong. So what? The statement is totally inconsequential. No need for conniptions. It would be hard to prove or disprove because many brands outsource their cartridges. If you want so badly to be right in... | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? And yet, the vast majority of all cartridges are made in Japan or elsewhere in Asia, and I wouldn't be so sure that Clearaudio cartridges are all made in Germany. | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... There ARE some parameters to look for or measure, like resistance, inductance, and capacitance. The latter also affect “characteristic impedance”, which is defined as the square root of inductance divided by capacitance. This parameter is independ... | |
| I used to think pricey interconnects were snake oil... There ARE some parameters to look for or measure, like resistance, inductance, and capacitance. The latter also affect “characteristic impedance”, which is defined as the square root of inductance divided by capacitance. This parameter is independ... | |
| Anyone had a Sony PS-2251 turntable I would not know whether there’s anything special about shipping a 2251. If I were you I’d download the owners manual from Vinyl Engine or some other reliable source, and read about unpacking, which is the reverse of shipping. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Imagine you have opened a tiny box of styli, where you want to install one in a cantilever. And you sneeze. | |
| Help me select few vinyl LPs OMG! You say you are not sure what the guy likes, and you don't know what LPs he already owns. This cries out for a Gift Certificate. |