whart
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| Does It have to be loud? @gdhal - I agree that each recording seems to have a level, given room, system and recording, where everything comes together.I think that sometimes, "turning it up" is meant to get more immediacy, impact and get the system out of the way, and if ... | |
| Compressed Air The accelerant is essentially a refrigerant. You don’t want that on your records. I use canned air to blow water off one of my RCM surfaces (not the platter but the plinth), but for records, I use a manual "puffer" - it’s the large size Giottos Ro... | |
| Record Cleaning Fluid? @nrenter - fascinating. I usually regard using things like toilet bowl cleaner and magic eraser as not good for vinyl LPs, but I re-read your post and am curious. (Not that I’m gonna go stick one of those things in my KL any more than I’d eat a Ti... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine – Recommendation Please! +1 @jperry . Plus I seem to recall postings identifying the motor as costing less than 1/2 of what VPI charges from the original equipment manufacturer if you do a search. There is synergy in combining the two cleaning methods. | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning @audiom3- don’t give up on a record just yet. One thing I learned, aside from the various fiddling you may do with the ultrasonic, is that a good old fashioned cleaning, using something like AIVS No. 15 and rinse will, in combination with US, some... | |
| Record Cleaning Fluid? @fjn04 - distilled as a rinse is fine. I use reagent grade 1, but I’m a bit anal. The folks at the Culpeper facility (the intake archive for the Library of Congress) told me in an interview that deionized water is sufficient for a rinse. @cleeds -... | |
| Record Cleaning Fluid? As in no surfactant- just plain distilled? Not for the vacuum cleaning system. For the ultrasonic, yes. (a KL, which as far as I know, doesn't contemplate anything more than some grade of purified water). | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning @psag- I have a Monks too (an Omni). If I had to choose one machine, that would be it. But the synergy of cleaning on the Monks and ultrasonic- in both directions-- brings more to the table. Try it. | |
| Looking for the best moving coil cart that is around $5K used Lot’s of people like the Lyra Atlas for its spectacular sound- it is quite dramatic sounding, and i’ve heard it set up in some systems where, in combination with other components, everything was just that much more WOW, without sounding too splash... | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning @Alf- That link you provided is almost a horror show of what not to do in my estimation. Using dish soap- sure it will work, getting it off is another matter- I suppose hot water will work but it isn't necessary to use some detergent with a lot of... | |
| I picked up a ROKU, I am wanting to cut the Cable TV cord. @jea48 - well YAY! I'm a genius. :)Not really. Glad you got it working. best,bill | |
| I picked up a ROKU, I am wanting to cut the Cable TV cord. @jea48 - I wish I could give you a magic bullet, given how much help you have been to me and others over the years here on things electrical. I had some earlier Roku units, one smelled like burning plastic when I powered it up, a couple others wor... | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning I cannot answer all of your questions, in part because I am not mixing any solution for my ultrasonic for the reason stated above (I use a KL machine right now). One issue I see as a potential hazard is the flash point of isopropyl even diluted, g... | |
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| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning @slaw @terry9 I think one of the values of terry’s input is the number of records you can effectively clean in one batch. There is a temptation to stack a bunch of records on a skewer and clean a lot at the same time. As someone upthread pointed o... |