richardbrand
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| Is it the gear or the ears? This post looks like a great injection of common sense to me! I think the ears adapt to the gear over time. The ears are connected to a learning neural network, and it takes time for this ear/brain system to grow into new soundscapes, which it do... | |
| What are good options for re-wiring an SME 3009 tone arm? Thanks everyone for your inputs. I had no luck dealing with either SME or van den Hul, so I have just ordered a custom made cable from The Vinyl Source in Scotland. It comprises long copper Litz wires running from the cartridge pins to the phono... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers Hate to let facts get in the way of a good stouch, but if I may refer back to the excellent 192-page paper Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records PACVR-3rd-Edition, it references the ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation, 2015, which was commissio... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... @thelotusgroup Silver is 7% more conductive than copper Well, it helps if you qualify whether this is by volume, by weight or by cost! The conductivity measured across the opposite faces of a 1-metre cube of metal is roughly silver 63.0; cop... | |
| ACTUAL MUSICAL SOUND VS. MEASUREMENTS @2psyop There are some tribal people today (I think) who make music and don’t read or write and have not heard of notes on a page Paul McCartney for example? He often says he had to write memorable music, not because it had to be memorable, b... | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? @zarf I probably only have a tenth of your collection, but then I switched to CDs almost as soon as they came out. Before then I mostly borrowed classical records from my local public library - a free service even in uncouth Australia. And I re... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm The ES force is determined by Coulomb’s law, which like Newton’s equation for the gravitational force is an inverse square law. Both forces are inversely related to the square of the distance between the two objects under consideration . ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @dover Can’t trust reviews or media - the GMT has a very nice integrated hinged dust cover. Ideal for those who can’t afford hepafiltration systems for their home/living room. Have a look close to the end of this Wilson Benesch YouTube video ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm "Dover [actually richardbrand] is correct that Shure do not describe the experiment that led to their saying static charge due to the stylus is negligible. My own frustration with that lack of detail is what led me to buy a static charge ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @dover Thanks - I have asked Wilson Benesch for a copy of the 'white paper' mentioned in TAS's review, but it is not finished yet! | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @billstevenson Since when are we taking anything Google's generative AI has to offer as an authority? Frankly lewm's reference to the published work of Shure years ago is an established, credible resource and those who disparage it must be doi... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm "Second, like I said, it is much more likely that my touching the LP had more to do with the difference, if it was even real" The human body is normally a great drain for static. Rubbing paper against a record creates static, handling i... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers This is what Google’s generative AI says in response to "can record stylus cause static"! Yes, a record stylus can cause static: Friction: The friction between the stylus and the vinyl record creates static electricity. Dust attraction: The ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm "Prima facie it seems that when you played your record, it doubled the charge" First, 0.1kV to 0.2kV is a range where the meter is not very accurate and readings are not very repeatable ..., such a low amount of static charge is inconsequ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm It seems the 30,000 Volts recorded by Shure corresponds to the breakdown voltage of air in a Californian winter - with a very low relative humidity of 10%. Shure's measured voltage dropped dramatically when the record was placed on the gr... |