whart
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| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @tuberculin- I have great respect for Rush and corresponded with him at one point. I think several people have put Neil's ultrasonic work into practice, using Elma machines in cascading baths with cooling systems and have reported on their results... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? I had a guy visit through a mutual friend in the last year- he was a producer of a major sound track and wanted to hear what some examples from a label interested in taking a master license (with accompanying mechanical license) sounded like. He k... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! I accumulated a lot of records over the decades; stuff I bought when I was an "audiophile," and even more when vinyl was proclaimed "dead"- Tower had moved all the LPs to the annex at the Lower Broadway store and I used to come out with bags full-... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine ~ Ultrasonic vs. Rest My experience- it is not a "vs" but an "and"- the two different processes, manual cleaning with vacuum and US are complementary. Sometimes, you really have to work a record in the manual cleaning phase; I always use a rinse step and since I don't ... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? I have a variety or loupes, magnifiers, microscopes, including a Shure SEK, and digital scopes. For routine checking of muck on the stylus, and general state of cantilever, I found a 7X magnifier to be the best for my aging eyes. I got one with a ... | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? I’ve had both the AD and the KL (more about that in a minute), but started in the early ’80s with the first generation VPI- a Model 16 that had been converted to a 16.5. When I left NY at the very beginning of 2017, the VPI was still running fine ... | |
| why is it such a PIA to post a bloody photo here ? this platform is cranky as hell ! Does the forum actually support photos on the site? I am used to SH Forums which requires you to put an image on a third party site and embed or link to it. I get why they do that--it takes up a lot of bandwidth. | |
| Hang em High and Gilligan's Island I bought a bunch of Italian pressings of the Morricone sound tracks back in the day at Footlights in NYC. I don't know if they are still in biz. I think I kept them, though I tossed a lot of soundtracks a while ago. Gilligan's Island was a show I ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? Thanks, @ozzy62 . @grislybutter - I'm off the sauce but you can have a drink as long as you don't touch the turntable. :) best to all, the one thing these hobbies/pursuits do in my experience is bring people of varied backgrounds together --when ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? I’ve met a lot of people over the years who did interesting stuff in all kinds of fields, so the Lambo question wasn’t bait. Sorry you can’t drive. I kinda quit for a while b/c I live in town, but just bought a vintage bike so I’m gonna get back ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? If there are constructive suggestions you could make about placement, set-up, I would not be afraid to offer those, but would not condescend. Do you really have a Lambo? I did, the last of the Diablos, a 6.0 built under Audi ownership circa 2001- ... | |
| What are your top 10 records @sandrodg73 - I mentioned a few upthread that are worth owning. I'm not sure I can do the 10 LPs for a desert island. One of the things I enjoy is the change-up; I can go from early heavy rock to spiritual jazz, and throw down a post punk record l... | |
| What are your top 10 records I wrote a detailed post that got hung up here and vanished. @simonmoon is correct in asking if you are looking for sonic spectaculars or good music. Sometimes, they overlap. The better remasters often sell out and are costly; the OGs are often mis... | |
| New Electrical Circuit I’ve done several rooms over the years when we moved households. This latest was in an 1880’s Texas Gothic (Victorian) which had a full restoration in 2004. Almost the entire first floor, (with the exception of the kitchen) was original, including... | |
| Why tube rectification? I used a Lamm L2 line stage for a number of years--solid state audio path, separate tube rectified power supply. Gorgeous mids, a bit rolled off at the frequency extremes, but you could not say it sounded euphonic or analytical-- it sounded very m... |