noromance
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| How to pre clean a very dirty LP before Ultrasound Machine? I use a SpinClean with distilled water and the proprietary detergent before the Ultrasonic. +1 slaw. Taking a steam cleaner to them sounds faster. Especially if the were on dish drying racks. I'd only use distilled water in the steam cleaner. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Thanks to your video, I held off buying a used Reference. And I run a SG/p as you know. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 The Signet is more forward with better air and is sweet as a nut.I believe it's compliance is high but the FR66 is high mass. I wonder if this is causing excessive brightness.The Decca is amazingly less dynamic and immediate sounding in comparis... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD My best recordings (on vinyl) were bought for $1-$10. 50-70s jazz and blues, many live. Columbia, Red RCA etc. The Tidal versions do not hold a candle to many of them, if you can even get them. | |
| Questions to ask as I shop for a tonearm? @dorkwad TFT is back on sale apparently.  I think it may be too much for the OP to deal with.@elizabeth The OP inherited the table and it's pretty decent except it comes with weak Rega 250 arm which s/he wants to change out. | |
| High end Dual @donvito Yes, but where are the suspension "pods?" | |
| Questions to ask as I shop for a tonearm? These are all good recommendations. The best bang for the buck in a new arm is unequivocally the new Jelco 550. Even better is the 850. You might look into the existing mounting and its options. Most arms require specific mounting distances fron t... | |
| My first phono preamp Look into rolling (swapping out) the tubes for better quality ones. This will improve sound quality. E.g. Sovtec 12AX7LPS at the low end, GE 5751 triple mica black plate mid level, and Telefunken ECC83/12AX7 at the higher end by price. | |
| Victor X1 IIE question Thanks @chakster Most informative. Are you selling any? I see a bunch on eBay from outside the US. | |
| High end Dual Maybe it was an Oracle! All I remember was the 5000 effort. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Ha! Thanks for the smile, frogman.I have the mono original of Love Letters. Now, I'll have to dig it out and see how it sounds on my Decca SG/P. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Decca - Clean, open, uncolored, unveiled, musical, emotional. Ketty is in the room.FR - Nice (damned already!), musical in a warm and slightly irritating way, veiled by comparison, bass seems deeper but not quite as clear. I listened to the MIT/Vi... | |
| New preamp in system Have you tried the Psvane globe 6SN7 from Grant Fidelity? Â I have and love them. | |
| The one component that you wish you had not bought Mission Cyrus 2 integrated amp. Horrifyingly bad. One dimensional, silver coloration, sibilant, dry, anti-musical transistor pos. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Golly. That is interesting. Apologies for my musical ignorance compared to @frogman . Again this is just through my phone speaker. MM - very easy to follow the basic melody of the piece. Clean sounding. Maybe even more dynamic. But that could be b... |