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| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco The previous interchange regarding the battery led me to believe that maybe it was not re-chargeable, which did not make sense. Thanks for the clarification. | |
| Tom petty record misprint If it has a 1920s air mail stamp on it that shows a biplane in inverted position, then it's worth a lot. | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco So I gather the Lino C depends upon a $50, non-rechargeable battery??? That's not much compared to the cost of the unit, but on the other hand what would put me off is running out of juice at a critical moment or a subtle effect on performance as ... | |
| Compressed sound from Marantz TT15S1 Worse than that, if you plug a phono stage into a phono stage, which has its own RIAA filter, you will play havoc with equalization, which would likely sound much worse than merely overdriving the linestage. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I always wondered why “quiet” is a virtue correlated with goodness when discussing vacuum based RCMs. I keep my noisy VPI in my basement workshop. When I clean records, I’m cleaning records, not listening to music. I’ve got a table radio in there ... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Let me be clear that I do not advocate substituting one tube type for another when the two are of different types, like 12AX7 vs 12AU7. To do that you have also to be willing and able to change resistors and/or capacitors to suit the new tube choi... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Lalitk, upon re-reading your “drive” statement, I now see that it should have been obvious to me what you meant. My bad. As far as tube rolling goes, and I’ve written this many times here, keep in mind that tubes age and can change character, even... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil My speakers in a second system are older than yours, Beveridge 2SWs, and the woofers I use with them I built myself in 1970-71. (I am told the original Bev woofers were never very good, and nearly none have survived the 40-45 years since they were... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? Just play it. | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I hope the didn’t sacrifice any babies to manufacture those baby scalp brushes. | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil In my opinion, the Krell phono stages were OK as SS phono stages used to go back in their day, but these days there are both tube and SS phono stages that handily outperform them. Specifically, modern phono stages are in general more free of artif... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Great idea!! So someone else can then throw them in the trash, and I don’t have to be made to feel guilty. The phrase "throw them in the trash" was a euphemism. Here in Montgomery County, MD, you would have to bring useless LPs to the town dump fo... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Keep in mind that in some cases, there is no amount of cleaning that will eliminate ticks, pops, and all around poor audio quality that one gets from some LPs bought second hand. There is such a thing as a worn out LP. Those I throw in the trash. | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? I’m talking about a 2012 or 2013 SLS AMG Roadster, the last naturally aspirated AMG V8. (You may have noticed the coupe version, because it has gullwing doors, a la the 1955-57 300SL coupe.) I want one but in the end, I am probably too frugal by n... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Dogberry, so far as I have been able to learn by reading the many threads on US RCMs, you are correct not to use a surfactant or detergent with your US machine. As far as I can determine, most manufacturers of US RCMs don't recommend adding anyth... |