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| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I hope the didn’t sacrifice any babies to manufacture those baby scalp brushes. | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil In my opinion, the Krell phono stages were OK as SS phono stages used to go back in their day, but these days there are both tube and SS phono stages that handily outperform them. Specifically, modern phono stages are in general more free of artif... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Great idea!! So someone else can then throw them in the trash, and I don’t have to be made to feel guilty. The phrase "throw them in the trash" was a euphemism. Here in Montgomery County, MD, you would have to bring useless LPs to the town dump fo... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Keep in mind that in some cases, there is no amount of cleaning that will eliminate ticks, pops, and all around poor audio quality that one gets from some LPs bought second hand. There is such a thing as a worn out LP. Those I throw in the trash. | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? I’m talking about a 2012 or 2013 SLS AMG Roadster, the last naturally aspirated AMG V8. (You may have noticed the coupe version, because it has gullwing doors, a la the 1955-57 300SL coupe.) I want one but in the end, I am probably too frugal by n... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest Dogberry, so far as I have been able to learn by reading the many threads on US RCMs, you are correct not to use a surfactant or detergent with your US machine. As far as I can determine, most manufacturers of US RCMs don't recommend adding anyth... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest If the water bath in a US machine stays “clean”, doesn’t that suggest it’s not removing detritus from LPs, which is its purpose? | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State 12AX7s provide plenty of gain but actually not much "drive". Drive is a term associated usually with current output, and the 12AX7 is puny in that department. In any case, gain is what you need and what you get with a 12AX7. Just as well you did n... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Bill, I was just re-stating the existing bone of contention. In essence I agree with your position. Also, I took the Devil’s Advocate position in stating the argument for pinpoint RIAA accuracy, which is in my mind at least the idea that since the... | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil The question or the argument is how accurate is accurate enough? | |
| Turntable hissing Hiss is likely RFI, not a grouding problem per se. Viridian's idea to short the unused inputs is worth a try. But what the OP described as a hiss is later referred to by others as a buzz. | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Actually, you can change the load resistor in any MM stage to whatever value you prefer, if you can identify it and can solder. | |
| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil Herman, the word you omitted in describing the input impedance of the EMIA is “high”. The EMIA has a high input Z to facilitate using it with LOMC cartridges that work best into high-ish impedance, specifically cartridges that have high internal r... | |
| What Holiday Gifts did you ask for or Give to Yourself? Mercedes Benz SLS Roadster, maybe. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Dover, I own the old QS preamp that has a built in MM phono stage, along with its linestage, not the newer models that I think are separates, a phono stage and a separate linestage. Since I have measured the voltages across the tubes, and thereby... |