lewm
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| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? If you regularly imbibe your alcohol-based record cleaner, you will not live to own your LPs as long as Mosin, or I. Alcohols with longer aliphatic side chains, like isopropanol (vs ethanol or methanol), will be more or less hydrophobic and have d... | |
| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? The heading for the thread: "A very long primer on record cleaning fluids" | |
| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? There's quite a bit of difference between what alcohols do and what mild detergents do, and fortunately for us, the thread that best described the differential effects of the various potential components of a record cleaning solution seems to be "... | |
| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? I use what Opus uses, except I add a few drops of a non-ionized detergent per liter, Triton X100 is one example. I can say I have had no issues, but how would one know, unless the damage was rapid and gross? One is hardly doing a controlled study ... | |
| Does 21g seem high for effective tonearm mass? IMO, you don't want the tonearm to "control" the cartridge. You want the tonearm to allow the cartridge to ride as smoothly as possible through the curvaceous and treacherous grooves of an LP, without bouncing out. At the same time, the tonearm sh... | |
| Reduced analog posts and items for sale here? Thing is, if Audiogon were to go down the tubes, so would these forums, many of which fill a gap not covered by other discussion groups. | |
| Turntable, but which one? These tt's are very different from one another in their design philosophy. I suggest that you do your own homework and narrow down your choices to a few that are more similar to each other. | |
| Feedback blew my phono stage? It doesn't look that way from where I sit. National debt(s) and lack of jobs are problems everywhere in the so-called industrialized world these days, are they not? In southern Europe the problem is far worse than anywhere in the US.On topic, I ag... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review In MF's original review of the Onedof, in which he compared it one on one to the Caliburn, I was rather taken aback by some of the "features" of the Onedof. Apparently the whole turntable is based on a novel idea for a platter bearing, and that pa... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Spirit, I am confounded as to how you can know that the 2 or 3 very esoteric cdp's that you named can compete with vinyl where all others fail, in your view, including your own very well regarded and very expensive rig. Surely you are not willing ... | |
| Does 21g seem high for effective tonearm mass? To my way of thinking, 21 grams is in the range of "high mass", not "medium mass". Medium mass is more like 10 to 15 grams, IMO. Of course, to some degree it is a matter of opinion. In any case, 21 grams is not stratospherically high. Most notably... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review I agree with Halcro's basic sentiments, BUT what I would like to see Fremer do is to use a garden variety but generally well recognized tt as a "control" in his listening experiments. Then perhaps the vast majority of us who cannot and never will ... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review Actus, I often have similar thoughts. Another one, besides the issue of off-center spindle holes, is that many of us acquire the bulk of our LPs in used condition for a couple of bucks, with no knowledge whatever of how they were cared for by the ... | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review I think someone did test the NVS with a Timeline. This was mentioned possibly in the previous now banished NVS thread. Perhaps the person who performed this comparison will enlighten us.As to the Onedof, why would one assume it has perfect speed s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? What? You guys wear clothes in the listening room? |