lewm
Responses from lewm
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? My dad was a proctologist, so I'm cool with it. Every year I attend the Capitol Audio Fest, and I usually buy 8-10 LPs from my favorite vendor, at prices up to $20 but usually about $10 each. However, the experience gives me the chance to see wha... | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? Goldmine is fine as a guide to estimating condition, but some of the $ values they place on some LPs strike me as ridiculous (too high). That gives sellers the cache' to ask high prices using Goldmine as a reference. | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? thecarp, Sorry I misconstrued your earlier post. I grew up in New Haven, and my wife is from Deep River. Although I live in MD near DC, we visit CT fairly often. Can you divulge the name of the record store in Mystic? Not that I am much of a buye... | |
| Integrity Hi-Fi tru-glider tonearm It’s an ingenious pivot, but it is a pivot. What’s so wrong with calling it a pivot? By all accounts Schroeder tonearms are among the best. | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? +1 for Warner Brothers LPs. | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? grislybutter and thecarpathian are willing to buy LPs in bunches at low per issue cost and apparently are prepared to find many of such LPs to be utterly unplayable. That’s another valid approach, I guess. I once spent an entire afternoon looking ... | |
| What should I look for when purchasing a quality album? Buy what you like to hear. Do buy used LPs but only under the following stipulations: (1) you examine the LP yourself, both sides, and there are no, zero, scratches or blemishes, and the surface retains its new vinyl sheen, or (2) you buy from a r... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers In my informal "experiment", I first yanked an LP from its paper sleeve (in order to be sure it got charged up) and measured the charge on one surface, 11kV. Then I treated that surface with my 40 year old zerostat and measured the same area agai... | |
| Spectral DMA 200 If MIT cables are a must to prevent oscillation, that suggests it may be unstable when fed either ultra high frequencies (above the audio bandwidth) or DC at the input. Have you tried cabling with capacitor coupling a la MIT? Like Transparent, etc... | |
| Rumbly feedback The Bardo tonearm is well coupled to the plinth, the platter, the bearing, So if the TT as a whole entity is disturbed by acoustic feedback, there is little to no aberrant motion of the stylus with respect to the LP. Hence no low frequency noise. ... | |
| Integrity Hi-Fi tru-glider tonearm I wrote the word "scraping" as in the verb "to scrape". I did not write "scrapping". OK, so in my reading of the Tru-Glider website and viewing the photos of the arm, it is evident that the arm hangs freely by a thread. For the purpose of discussi... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers Stylus rubbing on vinyl is not a cause of static charge. This was shown by Shure Corporation in their published white paper on static charge. I and some other guy here who also owns a static charge meter have repeated the experiment with the same ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers I guess that is "yourlogic". Unfortunately or fortunately, we are not all living in Fuller's geodesic domes. Another prediction of his gone awry. But it interests me that you can read what Elliot wrote about dustcovers vis a vis turntables and in... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers Not that I care much, but what do the last few posts have to do with dust covers? | |
| Integrity Hi-Fi tru-glider tonearm Agree it would have no bearing noise (except when the up facing point below the pivot scrapes against the circular rim of the constraint, whose purpose is explicitly stated by the manufacturer), but it sure does have “tracing error” if by that ter... |