terry9
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| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges In my experience, an air bearing TT is incomparable. More clarity, more warmth, less noise. That's air in all dimensions, no contact bearing at all. Once you hear it there's no going back. IMO. If your budget will stretch and if your floor is co... | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? Jonas Miller and Ken Kreisel ran the store, and what a store it was. I remember asking about a much advertised and much prized piece of equipment, and being told, "That’s the best thing that I won’t tolerate in my shop." They designed and built M... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @antinn Agreed. I misunderstood you to be recommending frequencies below 60kHz, whereas in fact you are warning against high power at low frequency. I read it wrong. | |
| Were you an audiophile in the 1980s and 1990s? @bdp24 , interesting your experience of Sound Systems in Palo Alto - my experience was the opposite. I heard the Magnepan Tympani 1a's there in '73, but lived in LA at that time, so they would not sell to me. Which was highly ethical of them. Th... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @antinn Do you really mean, 'less than 60KHz', or should that read, "greater than 60 KHz?' Thanks! | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! Not to defend Fremer, but walls of records, edge on, are a damned good start for treatment of the generic room. For the purpose built room it's very different. There the dimensions have to be accurate to 0.125" (sic), and room treatment can be mi... | |
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) Give it a rest. | |
| Connectors from cross-overs to drivers question The term 'silver solder' refers to a very high temperature solder requiring a propane torch. That's not what you want. Instead you might try a resin core solder with a small proportion of silver, like WBT brand solder. It's very good but pricey, ... | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? "Four Rode By", a ballad of rampage by "three McLean boys and that wild Alex Haire," Ian & Sylvia. | |
| Better story teller than Edmund Fitzgerald? Kingston Trio, remember them? Several polished, musical, and meaningful songs to compete with any. 'Ballad of Old John Webb' - an accused counterfeiter, famed for his 10 pound notes, escapes. "Billy (the 10 pound notes, get it?) broke locks and B... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs Note very clear thinking, @clearthinker . You manage to mischaracterize my point and misquote me, all in only three lines. | |
| Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older? Define "new". I am still unsealing records and listening for the first time. The fact that the music was written 1000 years ago is irrelevant (to me). As for newly composed music, it is mostly heavily marketed, and there is a reason for that - it... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @antinn Points taken. Elmasonic commercial unit (and now that reminds me, 37KHz, not 40, 37 being even more energetic), VersaClean lab detergent from Fisher Scientific, air dry in a clean environment. Control was the other half of the record. Tha... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @lewm Agree, not exhaustive. There are many formulations of vinyl, for one thing. But then, cooking one side for an hour, reaching high temperatures, is a torture test by any standards - compare a with normal procedure of 6 rotations per hour, whi... | |
| Investigating if ultrasound is harming LPs @lewm " And you cannot even hope to detect such damage with a listening test, as someone else seems to claim. " If it can't be detected by a listening test, then just how bad can the damage be? |