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| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? I don't remember what it was, but I think there was some question about using Photo-flo for cleaning LPs. Anyway, something I read did cause me to stop using it about 10 or more years ago, in favor of Tween20 or Triton X100, or even Dawn. | |
| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? I think I would limit the definition of a surfactant to a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is diluted, in this case of water. This allows the water to be "wetter", to penetrate better. Whether this also results ... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable You've never read, evidently, any of my old posts about using cans of Mandarin Orange slices in water, DelMonte brand only, as turntable footers. I did an A/B comparison to Del Monte sauer kraut; Mandarin Orange slices in water won. $2 per foote... | |
| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? I've used up to 25% with no problems ever, in the sense that cleaned LPs sound better, not worse, after exposure to my cleaning concoction. But I ALWAYS use laboratory grade 98% isopropanol (also known as "isopropyl alcohol") as the basis. Do no... | |
| Why does my Shelter 501 have screw threads not bolt channels? Consider yourself lucky. I'd rather have the threaded holes, any time.But to your point: I just bought a Shelter 501 Mk2 MONO cartridge in Japan, at a store that had many versions of the 501 (both mono and stereo) on display. I was at first dub... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? During my recent visit to Tokyo, I saw at least seven or eight different Ikeda cartridges for sale as new at Yodibashi camera, the massive supermarket for electronics in the Akihabara section of Tokyo. I had heard of none of these cartridges befor... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable Pour some maple syrup on your turntable. Then you’ve really got something. But seriously, audiophiles will argue over anything. Some will say that one kind of hardwood sounds better than another. And I have read pro and con arguments around the u... | |
| Phono stage inquiry It’s impossible to say whether what you are hearing is “normal” or indicates there is a correctable problem in your phono stage. This is because we don’t have adequate information regarding the gain structure of your system, your cartridge, your a... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms I don't know whether you use a specific mounting template for every different tonearm with the SMARTractor, as one does with the UNItractor, but if so, you would obviously want to buy the FR64S template from Acoustic Systems and, yes, know the dia... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Geoff, You wrote, "I tend to discount oddball results like yours since no single test should be used to draw general conclusions."This is such a puffball one-liner that I almost don't have the heart to start on it. First, "no single test should b... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable Mabel Mercer, maybe. She could hold up a turntable. | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Geoff, the point is that we could hear a difference. And the difference was decidedly in favor of the cheap fuse. I don’t know why we should’ve heard any difference. I tend to discount the whole experience, except for the fact that four other peop... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms I aligned my FR 64S using the UNItractor, made by Dertonearm. In so doing I used the recommended pivot to spindle distance of 231.5 MM. (Not the factory recommended distance of 230 mm.) Then I used the supplied template that came with the Unitrac... | |
| SL1200G GAE Arm Board I would think you can take the armboard off for a quickie measurement and get it back on in less than an hour of work. Unless you are compelled to listen to LPs 24/7, that should be an acceptable amount of down time. (I am sitting here wishing I ... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" ericsch, If you've got both the Mint protractor and the alignment gauge supplied by Technics, perhaps you can determine whether they both result in identical mm of stylus overhang. That might settle the issue regarding what alignment algorithm is... |