vanmeter
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| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I don't think I could stomach the idea of playing records wet. The steam seems to work so well...I catch myself constantly forgetting I'm listening to vinyl since the noise floor seems to drop so much and the sound becomes somewhat 3D. I really do... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? Okay...I've been steaming for about two months now, and REALLY like the sound improvment. However, I'm getting a lot of dust still on the stylus after playing an album side, something I haven't dealt with in 20 years of having an RCM. Is there a w... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? Because, I swear, in addition to the noise issue, I really think I am hearing a little more space and air upon playback when I don't use the RCM. As I mentioned, I did one side each of a couple of different LPs both ways and really think I hear a ... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? Well, I had a hearing test about two years ago and was told I have a huge, huge, hole in the octave around 2k...I don't notice it except sometimes life just sounds like I am in a tunnel, but I suspect my brain compensates most of the time. My top ... | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? Thanks so much for your response - it answers my questions perfectly.I keep wondering about the fact that one person (somewhere, I can't recall where) said it measured flat to about 16k, and the original patent states essentially the same thing an... | |
| ELP laser turntable - any comments? I've got a question about worn records...I've both heard that actual groove wear (like distortion on an old disc played with a bad stylus) can be virtually eliminated sometimes, and yet both owners here say wear is worse on the ELP. I'm just curio... | |
| Optical Retrieval from "Touchy-Feely" Vinyl It makes sense to me, although I'm no scientist. But the thing I can't fathom is how fiber optical pickups could compensate for the need to read different groove depths to avoid wear... | |
| Turntable Hum I got into the turntable night before last and discovered that the prior owner's installation of the Ultralink cable had resulted in some circuit board trace destruction. I can't really solder to the next point as they're too close together. It's ... | |
| Turntable Hum Not quite - I still need to connect a second wire to ground the tonearm, and am feeling a little nervous about getting inside to do it, so I'm hoping there'll be an obvious place to connect it once inside. I have a young daughter, so I have to do ... | |
| Turntable Hum Well, on a hunch last night I connected a second wire between my preamp and touched the other end to the pivot screw on the tonearm...hum gone! Now I've got to figure out how to permanently mount the second ground wire... | |
| Turntable Hum I've done a little searching around and discovered comments here and there regarding the change in capacitance that can occur with heavier RCA cables, which is what the prior owner of my deck put on...I'm not certain what the brand is and I'm not ... | |
| Turntable Hum I'll let you all know as soon as I have time to check everything...so far it's not a loose clip or anything, and I'll report back when I've had the chance to devote myself more fully... | |
| Turntable Hum They come out of the turntable, which is mounted on the wall, through an opening in the back of the shelf, and connect directly into the preamp, which sits on a shelf underneath, crossing nothing. They haven't been moved in a year or more, but it ... | |
| Turntable Hum I have a Stanton 500, a Shure m97xe, and a Shure v15VMR, and the hum is there on all of them...but it's also there without a headshell attached. I'm afraid it's the wiring in the tonearm as well, but I feel reasonably comfortable attempting to rep... | |
| Turntable Hum No, I don't have two grounds run. I'll certainly try it, but I guess I ruled it out since the hum doesn't change when I unplug the unit.We have a less-than-a-year old baby, so I'm not sure when the problem cropped up, since I don't get as much tim... |