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| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative Most likely you are using the zerostat incorrectly. There's no shame in that. Zapping an LP inside its wrapper or sleeve, whether paper or whatever, is never going to work. One reason your LP may stick to your felt mat is that felt itself is a g... | |
| Mint Protractor. A Pretty Nice Alignment Tool Mijostyn, is it really true that most tonearms are mounted incorrectly regarding P2S distance? I would have thought that overhang was the most common error. The very first and really only important thing to do when mounting a new tonearm is to get... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops I have never seen a cartridge that came with a written spec for anti-skate. And I doubt AS has anything to do with the JJ problem of ticks and pops. Of course if he’s applying way too much AS, that’s a problem per se. | |
| Has anybody else had problems with orders from Lounge Audio? Search archives for an old thread on Lounge Audio. | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Zerostat is not a record cleaner. The trick is to clean an LP before play without charging it up or to disperse the charge after cleaning.Zerostat helps in the latter case. | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative But it is the act of removing the LP from its paper sleeve that does the most to generate a charge on its surface. So you would have to zap it again, once you removed it from the paper. Which makes it a waste of time to zap it in the sleeve, even... | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative GHD, How many Zerostats did you own, and how did you use them (and why so many)? I found that my Zerostat does not work on an LP mounted on the platter, using my static electricity meter as evidence. However, it does work if you hold the LP in one... | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative newfzx7, I think Raul was simply urging you to go ahead and buy the arc lighter. I don’t think he meant or communicated anything offensive. But if you do buy the arc lighter, keep in mind that it contains a wear-able element that will eventually n... | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative dweller, IIRC, I bought my Zerostat in 1972, in the UK. So you think I got one of the "strong" ones? I don't recall ever seeing sparks. | |
| Rega P10 with Apheta 3 My wife and I have separate financial lives. Separate hers, mine, and ours checking accounts. (We do share the same investment advisor, but we have separate accounts there too.) Each month I transfer an amount from my checking to the joint account... | |
| Found a Milty Zerostat alternative Zerostat is probably better than that arc lighter, and the arc lighter probably generates a small amount of ozone in the vicinity of its user. Probably not enough to be unhealthy, but not great for the environment. I recently bought an electrostat... | |
| Pioneer SL-570D TT Tonearm Suggestions Upon re-reading your OP, I hope you’re not powering those 350W amplifiers via the P12. Plug them directly into the wall socket. | |
| Mint Protractor. A Pretty Nice Alignment Tool There is something to be said for using the alignment algorithm (Stevenson, Lofgren, etc) for which your tonearm was designed. Because deviating from one to another requires twisting the cartridge in its headshell which can create aberrant force o... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages That's a fine kettle of photons. | |
| Solid State Phono Stages Bliss is a very good guy, but I have to agree with the SR critics, as noted. I am an MD/ molecular biologist with 40+ years experience at the lab bench. Had some wonderful physics teaching in college but have no advanced degree in the field. Howev... |