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| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? That makes all the sense in the world to me, except other than the occasional white gunk on my stylus, which I suspect it certain mold release compounds, the sound is slightly - just slightly more open without using the RCM, and there's no sense o... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? Crem (and others) one question - how long do you let the record dry before playing? Mine look dry right after wiping with a microfiber cloth, but I wonder if there's an ideal amount of time - 10 minutes? 5 minutes? An hour? Not at all? - that need... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? Any more thoguhts on the Pledge wipes mentioned above? I have tried them...and they seem to work well, but I too wonder if anything is left behind. In the evening, if I shine a flashlight at about a 45 degree angle on a record that has been RCMd a... | |
| ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down I ran my CBS Labs STR130 test record through my ELP and checked it in Sound Forge, which admittedly involved the preamp and the sound card, but doing that it was pretty much flat out to 20k. Within a db or 2 at most. | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I have to mention, and it may have been said before and I've missed it, that the most amazing difference I've heard wtih steam is on old mono 45s. Steam isn't a miracle worker, but I'm hearing better signal to noise, less distortion, just all arou... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I've just been using the spray bottle such as shown at the link below, but about a 4:1 ratio (4 water to 1 S&W)...somewhere on AA I saw that, and that's what I tried!http://www.bettymills.com/store/images/product/XREC1420.JPG | |
| ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down I'm curious; what style/genre of music did they use? | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? After still wrestling with white gunk on my stylus with just random records, last night out of frustration I tried Spray 'n Wash as has been recommended again and again on AA. I put that on one of my problem LPs, rinsed, then steamed, then scrubbe... | |
| ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down I've used my Technics more than my ELP...for the kind of music I listen to, it's just more transparent. My ELP - and it's been back to Japan to be serviced once - distorts on hot-cut cymbal crashes, vocal sibilants, etc., and the company suggested... | |
| ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down I really have been thinking about selling mine...frankly, I don't use it much at all now that the new has worn off (had it about two years). I just hesitate in today's economy, even though I don't expect to get full price out of it. | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I think I understand what you mean, Crem, as I've gone back and forth over the past couple of weeks switching between RCM and microfiber. And I've found that either way on some records I get gunk, sometimes that isn't gone after 2 or 3 plays. And ... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? That makes sense, Doug. I'll experiment some more... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I tried steaming and mirofiber-ing one side of an LP last night, and steaming and RMC-ing the other, then played the towel side...big blog of white (and this isn't a dust bunny, it's a congealed blob) crud on the stylus that needed wet cleaning to... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I have noticed that the buildup problem seems to be totally random, too, so static issues would make sense. I was drying with three different microfiber towels and then giving a quick wipe again before play to remove dust, but it seems I have less... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I should say, on a disc I had let air dry after wiping down with 3 different microfiber cloths, which has become my routine. |