lewm
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| Record clamp/weight and turntable speed You provide no actual information. How heavy is your record weight? What type of turntable do you use, belt-, idler- or direct-drive? Does the motor incorporate a speed control? What type? Have you actually measured speed with vs without the weig... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Fortunately for posterity, Groucho made more sense and was anyway funnier than the above posts. | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? Arizona, I notice you seem to grade the LP itself and it’s jacket as one. Very often I find a mint LP inside a jacket that is way short of mint condition. Or vice-versa, a horrible condition LP in a mint sleeve. How do you deal with that in the co... | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? Define "too long". Anyway, it's possible. The potential is there for static charge to build up because of the velvet cushion that protects the LP surface from the plastic suction tube, I suppose, but the LP starts out wetted with cleaning solutio... | |
| Dr Feickert Protractor A guy with a protractor would also be a guy with a complete set of Allen wrenches, both SAE and metric. Like me. | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. "cheapest copper wire" would actually be an upgrade over what is used in many modern contructions, where you might find aluminum wiring. THAT would be the cheap way out. But the argument against expensive power cords, based on the idea that mile... | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? Elliot, I see now that I completely mis read your original post. Mea culpa. 1000 apologies to you. | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? I don’t doubt for a minute that you make an earnest effort to remove static, but my point is that static happens over and over again. The person to whom you sold an LP may introduce a static charge simply by the method with which he handles the LP... | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? You are dreaming to think you can “remove static“ and then ship the LP to someone who will then have a static free LP. Static does not work that way. You will be making a big mistake if you try to guarantee no static. As to everything else you are... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. Should have written "...that in my opinion are closer to snake oil...."Others are free to decide for themselves. | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. In response to Mijostyn: I do tune my room using both home-made absorbers and diffusers and also commercial products that do the same. I aim usually to eliminate any nasty peaks that are inherent to the room, and that's about my only goal. But ... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. "The right frequency response is much harder. If you think you can trust your ears for this you are out of your mind."I do not agree there is a "right" frequency response suitable for all program sources. And I am definitely out of my mind. You a... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. What is wrong with tuning your listening room to suit your listening preference, so long as you have the sound of live, preferably unamplified music in a live venue as your comparator? To achieve that end, or get close to it, you need to experien... | |
| Now that I have my Tri-planar tone arm, I ask for recommendations for a new cartridge. Those Miyajima cartridges are very fine indeed, but aren't they low compliance? In my experience, the Triplanar does its best with "medium" compliance cartridges. For one example, the Triplanar never got the best out of my Koetsu Urushi, whereas... | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 I'm glad someone else revived this thread. Up the thread, I wrote to Mozart: "Machining down the diameter of the idler would reduce platter speed." Xactaudio seemed to disagree with me. I am always ready and willing to learn if I made an error ... |