terry9
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| Miyajima MADAKE experience I use the Zero for mono, and it's fine. However, it lacks the ultimate refinement of my higher end Koetsu. | |
| How effective is the ultrasonic V-8 lp cleaner? Allvinyl, that is the first test which I tried. I was perfectly ready to write off the cost of the US cleaner rather than damage my records.Testing paradigm: cleaned two records thoroughly with 15 minutes of US. Treatment: I then immersed them hal... | |
| Nottington Ace Space question, motor placement. Hello John.My Wave Mechanic was 1997 vintage. Mr. Bastin is of the opinion that what I received was not a true Wave Mechanic; I expect that Tom F simply pulled an early prototype off the shelf and sent me the unit in good faith.I am exploring a mo... | |
| Nottington Ace Space question, motor placement. Updated the Wave Mechanic and motor to the latest versions. Big improvement.My old Wave Mechanic was just filtration and voltage adjustment, but the new version is much more complex, and sounds far better (smoother, stronger, cleaner). | |
| cartridge demagnetization I use the demagnetizing cuts (side 2, tracks 2 & 3: pink noise) on Analogue Productions Ultimate Test LP. Was skeptical at first, but the results were unambiguous on my Koetsu. | |
| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? I have owned a number of Naks. LX-5 is very good, ZX-7 (two) were both better, DR-1 better yet, and CR-7 (two) best. The CR-7 belt drive was notably better than the CR-7 all-gear drive. I still have one of the Zx-7's and both CR-7's.Raul is absolu... | |
| Hurst motor rumble? I for one commend RP for using the highly sensitive instrument he already had (his music system), rather than renting a vastly expensive instrument to do the same thing. Identifying the source of noise is pre-requisite to eliminating it, and that ... | |
| Classical Record Labels and Recording Engineers... A note about BIS. I understand that they used a Revox B77 with custom recording amplifiers. Records are reliably quiet and natural sounding.Analogue Productions did some fine re-issues.M&K Records did some interesting direct-to-disk recordings... | |
| Checking speed 331/3, 45 I use a test record and a frequency counter plugged into the phono stage output. Much more accurate than the alternatives. | |
| TUBES: Telefunken EL84 & ECC801 I did a lot of listening with 6DJ8 variants. The absolute best by a considerable margin were the old Telefunken tubes specially selected by Hewlett/Packard. | |
| Matching Koetsu Stone Body Platinum Cartridge I have a platinum rosewood with the DC. I had to buy it on spec too - and I heard a terrible bad review from a knowledgeable Koetsu expert. Even so, I went for it, because I reasoned that getting rid of one more interface (sylus / cantilever) just... | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone Diamond cantilever - yes, I think it is most definitely worth it. For those interested in the basis of my opinion, I am using the DC rosewood body with- trans-fi air bearing tonearm, heroically regulated air supply- NAS Mentor, machined Al / plywo... | |
| How do you roll? First LP on a new TT. Hello Drinky.Assuming that the factory mounted it right may be a bit risky. I would take an afternoon and check everything. As for break-in, my Koetsu sounded very fine after just a few hours - it probably sounded that good at the outset, but it t... | |
| Any step up transformers recommendations for MC's Hello Jake.I suggest that you build your own box, using off-the-shelf transformers. I use Sowter pro quality transformers with the OFC option, and nude Vishay loading resistors. Sound is only slightly inferior to the 5 figure AN (comparison in my ... | |
| What's the best way to clean vinyl records? REALLY good question. Clean records are far more important than one thinks.Ultrasonic, BUT all ultrasonic units are not created equal, which is why I made my own.How good is it? Going from VPI to my ultrasonic was MORE than going from good MM to h... |