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| 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. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I am suggesting nothing for anyone else but me. And I do not own or ever use a US RCM. As previously noted, I use a VPI HW17. Good point if those other two stipulated they were using US. My bad. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Rich, Wizzzard explained why he recommends 22% ethanol, and his data support his choice. I’ve been using 25% isopropanol. Maybe I’ll adopt Wizzzards recommendation. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Except where are the data or at least a description of the results comparing very low concentrations of an alcohol to more typically recommended concentrations that hover around 25% or precisely 22% if you follow Wizzzard? You may say you use 5% o... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Every time I attend a live performance either in a concert hall or a club I am reminded that this business of imaging in home audio systems is overrated. What with room acoustics, microphone placement and sensitivity, seat location, and etc, all b... | |
| Need recco for someone to solder tonearm cable clips It's very uncommon. You are fortunate. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" No knees is good knees. (Even a bad joke can help.) | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" My wife is a Rheumatologist named Cali. She does prefer Doctor, and she uses her own family name, and I’ve owned an HW17 for about 30 years. My only RCM. | |
| Need recco for someone to solder tonearm cable clips Very fine gauge pure silver wire is as easy to melt as it is to solder. That’s my thought on that. I’d like to know where are the electronic parts stores in the US that also have technicians that solder. Heck, I’ll settle for an electronics parts ... | |
| Shindo Vosne Romanee / MC240 / Linn LP12 / ProAc & Altec - DAC? I can only respond to #1. The best connector is no connector. Even worse than any single connector is using a connector to a connector. Using an adapter between a spade connector that is fixed to the end of your wire and a banana jack is not a goo... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" FWIW, and as someone else noted, you certainly can purchase TergitolS7 in the USA. Just google it. Cost ranges from about $70 to about $110 per 100ml bottle. Which would last most of our lifetimes at our respective ages. |