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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 ... 
What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.
Just make sure you place the audiopoints at the end of each chair leg, facing downward to the floor.  Placing them facing up on the seat bottom will be instantly destabilizing the moment you sit down. 
Crosley should be arrested for selling junk
Noromance, My response to your OP was equally tongue in cheek.  I can't resist a good one-liner.  Big Rodney Dangerfield fan. 
Review of the SMARTractor and SMARTstylus
MC, If you make an error locating the pivot point while setting P2S distance, it is quite possible to end up with only one null point on the playing surface of a typical LP, or none at all.  Plus it could exacerbate tracking angle errors that occu... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
At some point early in the history of the ZYX Universe, which according to legend is a "special" model originally developed for USA distribution only, one or more reviewers opined that the copper coil/low output version of the UNIverse was the bes... 
What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.
Audio2design, You are absolutely correct about the frozen yoghurt incident that I witnessed.  The fuse probably had nothing to do with it. I realized this about 15 minutes after posting, but at that time I was out of the house doing something more... 
What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.
Dear Mijo, In my original post on your disdain for fuses, I acknowledged that the little fuse screwed into the back of your equipment indeed cannot prevent damage due to a lightning strike. However, lightning strikes are rare as..... getting struc... 
What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.
In support of the fuse.  Mijo, You are wrong.  Sure, there are failure modes where the fuse fails to protect the circuit.  But there are many more failure modes where the fuse will save your ass if not also your power transformer.  Power transform... 
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Everything "works", compared to doing nothing.