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| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Before every side and after. +1 for melamine foam (Magic Eraser material) available as thin sheets that lay perfectly on the platter. I learned this technique from Joseph Long (groovetickler) who has seen and repaired lots of cartridges damaged by... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align One track comes immediately to mind: Steve Cardenas/ / Ben Allison / Ted Nash’s "Healing Power" from the recording of the same name. The music is poignant, performance inspired, and Ben Allison’s mix techniques put you in the room with them. Ther... | |
| A** Kicking, Rock and Roll! anything that comes out of my son's pickup truck. | |
| Not manufactured any more. So many great posts! Really happy to see Acoustat X and Beveridge both mentioned. Electrostatics with direct-drive tube amps made a lasting impression, to the point I have trouble being satisfied with less. And ADS 2030s - I swear those things ... | |
| Is this Cartridge Alignment good? Mijo is on the right track. Properly aligned, a cartridge will be perfectly aligned at two points on its arc across the record. Simple protractors give you those two points. If it only aligns at one, more tweaking is required. If you have the ... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? i am late to this thread. the links to photos of Jico styli traces in dropbox. the images are no longer available - can someone post a saved copy here? | |
| Jazz for aficionados A few items not mentioned before:Elise Einarsdotter’s "Summer Night": a CD of piano/bass duets, from marvelous performers who are relatively unknown outside their native Sweden. The title track is delicate and absolutely tactile in the way the pia... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Years ago: bought a brand new and very rare Supex SDX3300 boron-cantilevered HO MC cartridge, expensive for the time and a significant smack to my youthful wallet. Sweet sounds, oh my. Bumped cabinet hard, by accident. Snapped cantilever. Gav... | |
| Selling a very rare album Discogs won't even allow it to be listed, presumably because of the questionable legal status of the bootleg. |