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What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”?
I am fully on board with the Japanese Craftmanship in their Traditional Tool Making. I would love to spend time with a Skill that is replicating woodworking traditions that extend back a Thousand Years that have evolved into various established Tr... 
What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”?
For a certain level of Clientele, even Sake can be supplied in finest of packaging craft man produced to an ancient discipline. I'm pretty much sure the Vessel for containing the Sake, will have been produced from the Furnace of a renowned Ancient... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
I do wear Gloves during cleaning and sleeving the dried LPs. I do not wear Gloves whilst assembling or putting the cleaning items away. I have a batch of Sponges, and as I only Clean Six LPs in one session as the average, the sponges absorb hard... 
What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”?
@sksos I am really liking your assessment of the MSL Gold Signature, it is a Cart' that is creeping through the undergrowth of various threads, with many who are willing to stand up and declare 'I am impressed'. Where does your report stand out a... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
With the Tiger Cloth, I have made a recent discovery that is not a concern, but as it is inquired about, it may be relevant. The Tiger Cloth has now been used as Neil Described on approx' 70ish Albums.   The DIW Rinse is carried out with Pressuri... 
What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”?
There is also present a Marketing Snobbery, where one has to protect the Old-Guard, by keeping the Riff-Raff out, keeping the product for the ownership of the well-heeled only. This as a marketing strategy certainly lends itself to being attracti... 
Cartridge burn-in
I took a rebuilt Cart' to a friend, to use in their system and compare to their owned Cart'. My friends Cart' was with a decent period of usage hours and was a model that was from the upper range of what the Brand offers. My own Cart's was a low... 
One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer?
As Stated within this Thread, I have no desire to return to a Mass Plinth Material as my regular used Plinth for the TT of choice. It has been made known within this thread from the time (which is 20+ Years ago) that I chose Granite as a Plinth M... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
The use of a Jewellers Putty has been reported to me via a friend as being a very good method for cleaning Styli. My friend is impressed to the point this is their only method used, other methods are no longer considered. I was informed that Jew... 
Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application
It is important to Flag Up a foreseen risk, if one believes it is present. For anybody who has a knowledge an adapter socket is available and can be used to use a 6SN7 in place of a E88CC, @lewm has made a good information available to be heeded.... 
emt 950, technics sp10 - direct drive sound
My Investigations over many years have led me into the thought process that not all, but many Cartridges have shared the same internal / external parts across Brands. It is not unusual to discover over more recent years where Third Party Retip/Reb... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
I lean toward the idea, a Clean LP with certain sized contaminants removed from the Groove will be an improved environment to allow a Styli to have an extended usage life. A cartridge styli is one of many parts that are impacted on by contaminati... 
Rolling Mullard 6DJ8 into GE 5670 Application
I have early 1960's E88CC Tubes in a DAC as a result of Tune Rolling Exercises and can't get enough of the sound on offer.   Even now when putting all the HiFi equipment into Storage, it is the DAC > Transport that will be the last Source Equi... 
Ultrasonic record cleaners
@antinn Your Contribution is much appreciated, it certainly reaffirms why I chose to use the Manual Cleaning Method, with a Planning for the Method in use, that can be honed to one that can achieve Six LP Albums cleaned in approx' 30 minutes. Why... 
emt 950, technics sp10 - direct drive sound
@lohanimal We share a crossover in interests, where a few extra TT's, readily available are the option, we also have encountered unwanted outcomes when acquiring the collection. My second TTS 8000 arrived with a difference to the images I reviewe...