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| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! Sokogear, Have you ever encountered an audiophile who exposed all of his LPs to room air, by removing them from their protective sleeves, and then proceeded to smoke for hours on end? I find it hard to believe that "smoke" damage is a significant ... | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco No it’s not “standard”. If there’s DC offset, it is generally blocked with a capacitor, but it’s possible to design especially a solid state preamp so there is no dc offset. Another method is to use a servo to cancel DC at the output. It’s always ... | |
| Rein in the winter static If you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on the CS Port or DS Audio gadgets, a Zerostat, used as directed, will remove the static electric charge from an LP surface just prior to playing,for much less money. Do not assume that any kind of de... | |
| Lounge Audio Should have written, "Such a cartridge works most efficiently into an impedance of 400 ohms or 10 times its internal R, or higher. " The higher you go above 400 ohms or a 1:10 ratio of impedances, the more you cover the gap between 92% (see later... | |
| Lounge Audio I think you probably have a Hana cartridge with an internal resistance of 40 ohms. Such a cartridge works most efficiently into an impedance of 400 ohms or 10 times its internal R. This is a “rule” for mating any two components in the audio chain.... | |
| Lounge Audio You have a 400 ohm Hana cartridge? And the lounge accepts input from MC cartridges with up to 300 ohm internal resistance? | |
| 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. |