terry9
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| Ultrasonic cleaning before and after Not dumb at all. It means that the cleaning chemistry has been purged of air, as it should be. You should see only small ripples on the surface. | |
| The best TT system for under 30K @uwiikz, @lalitk About record cleaning, the machine @lalitk recommended looks like a variant on the VPI 16.5. Much better than nothing, but not consistent with your investment in vinyl front end, IMO. I had one of the VPI machines - after cleaning... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K You are too kind, @whart . No-one needs to be told how very much the same applies to you.OP, whart has also posted extensively about ultrasonic record cleaning, of which I too am an exponent. Last year I had a photomicrograph taken of my Koetsu, w... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K Koetsu - I have the least expensive diamond cantilever cartridge. It is phenomenal: clarity without edge. I've never heard a cartridge close to it.On another thread, a connoisseur of Koetsu cartridges opined that the diamond cantilever option was ... | |
| The best TT system for under 30K Consider the Nottingham Analogue offerings, particularly the Dais and the Deco. They favour the Trans-Fi Terminator air bearing tonearm, which is itself a tremendous value. I use a near-Dais standard NA TT with a Terminator TA for mono, with a Miy... | |
| Help! Receiver or preamp? Im overwhelmed... @noble100 You say that an Oppo 205 would do the trick - but can it control volume with the analogue outputs? I ask this because my top end Panasonic 9000 can't - I needed to get a volume control with a remote - so I just caved and bought the best ... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! DIY. IF Carter can make his own furniture, then why not learn from his inspiration? | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? If you're dead set on using an aluminum plate for a plinth, then the alloy makes a big difference. Alloy 2024 is recommended by some who have experimented, and the temper does not seem to matter much; all tempers seem to have about the same loss m... | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? Antinn gave you good advice. Constrained layer damping is an important element in most plinth designs - it’s often absent and that’s always obvious.If you want an easy solution, I use Delignit panzerholz B25, which costs about $1000 a sheet. In my... | |
| Life span of silver cables with cotton/air dielectric The whole point of using cotton as dielectric is to loosely cover the wire, so the main dielectric involved with the signal is air. Tight coverings exhibit dielectric absorption (DA), and teflon is the best solid, but not as good as air.If you tre... | |
| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? Audition - the magic word.Cone speakers are one sound. Electrostatics are another. Magnepans another. Horns another. Go to a high end store and choose what sounds best to you. My personal vote is ESL's, but YMMV.Those who say that room treatment i... | |
| Paralleled Transistors There was an extensive discussion on Audiogon about a year ago, when the late great Roger Modjeski hosted a thread entitled something like, "Ask an amplifier designer a question."We discussed paralleling and matching transistors at some length.Fur... | |
| Turn Table Cable Length As usual, Atmasphere gives a complete and accurate answer. In case you don't know it, OP, Ralph is an expert. | |
| 2021 audio system wish list Improve the battery power on my phono/pre. I'm using alkaline batteries now, but really should have NiCads. Trouble is that optimal charging requires an individual current source for each cell, so that's a project. | |
| Speaker upgrade for classical music @audiokinesis makes a good case for forward and backward firing speakers. I note that panel speakers, like Magnepans and ESL's, do that naturally. Without phase control of course.I like that sound very much. A good complement is record or book she... |