oilmanmojo
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| a record cleaning device and proper method You will always get a lot of responses on this subject. My 2cents; you can build a cheap RCM by using a shop vac (29 bucks) from home depot and using the crevice tool as your vacuum wand. just notch out a 1/4" slit in the tool and cover with felt ... | |
| Record cleaning Q's - brushes and fluid Jon; i have a couple of recipes that has proven to work for me. I use distilled water, dawn dishwashing detergent and isopropyl alcohol as a basic wash. It is very good for lightly fouled albums. For one quart of solution, i use 28 ounces of water... | |
| Best 5-10 Rock Recordings? buckingham and nicks first album is a wonderful record. DSOTM, Wall, Meddle, WYWH (pink floyd) are all very good, Most of the steely dan albums. I must agree with the pure prairie league, great sonics on this album. Moody blues seventh sojurn and ... | |
| Upgrade options from Michell Gyro SE my upgrade was moving to a maplenoll ariadne table. I liked the gyro but the rega arm was a pain to optimize. My daughter is using it now. Not sure if you are wanting to upgrade the gyro by adding michell additions. If so, the pete riggle vta woul... | |
| Record cleaning Q's - brushes and fluid I have the diskdoctor brush and it is pretty good. i have also discovered a cheap but effective brush at Walgreens. It is a lint brush (they have a lint mitt) that has short but stiff microfiber bristles that easily equals the diskdoctor for three... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , DougIt was interesting to get to the mistracking point. I tend to make a small move and listen for a side of an lp before making another move. I had actually been near 1.65 for a couple of days and was playing an album when it mistracked. It was a... | |
| Best Cartridges for the Money You've Experienced My cartridge experience is thin compared to others. I loved the old shure series of MM cartridges(v15 series) and felt they were a great buy for the money at the time (mid 70 to 90's). I finally upgraded to a Van Den Hul frog, zyx airy3s and final... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , Using the guidance in some of the earlier responses on this string, i found that the lighter vtf (1.7) brought out more of the magic of this cartridge than the heavier settings. I followed DD steps to lower vtf to the mistracking point and then in... | |
| Suspended vs. non suspended turntable i can not compete with the technical discussions between the merits between the suspended versus non suspended models. But my experience with the michell gyrodec (suspended) versus Maplenoll ariadne (High mass nonsuspended) using the same cartridg... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? Charlie, I have taken your advice this weekend and purchased a steamer for my records. I have taken some of my recent purchases (moldy, dirty records) along with a few of my fathers old bluegrass records and did a lot of experimenting. I have used... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice charliethanks for the kind words. its guys like you who help the novices like me get the encouragement to try new things. | |
| Is that record dead yet? try steam cleaning (different thread with lots of ideas) on those really noisy lp after cleaning. I have found it can work wonders | |
| How did you get into vinyl? i think some of the younger generation is getting into vinyl. My daughter (age 20) has an impressive collection of over 200 albums ranging from glenn miller to the bright eyes. She has several friend who have recently gotten into the vinyl arena. | |
| Strange phenomona this hobby. As many have said, this hobby is quite complex and there are very few absolutes. In my history with the search for the perfect chord, i had thought i had found it many times before only to find (sometimes very minor) a tweak that dramatically impr... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? I grew up in a home that played music via records and tapes all the time. My father had a zenith hi fi with fifteen inch speakers that was fantastic. I eventually gained access to those speakers and built a set of home made speaker cabinents and p... |