whart
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| Ultrasonic Record Cleaner 40 v 80 v 120 kHz I think you have to back up and look at what kind of cleaning you need. I buy a lot of older pressings. They don’t clean up fully solely by use of US type cleaners. I learned that through experience. The question of frequency is a factor in choosi... | |
| The Allure of Vintage Audio Gear @vitussl101 -Amen. Not all old equipment qualifies. And the brand name Marantz became a different story once Saul Marantz sold to Sony/Superscope. I still have my Quad 57s from 1974 that were sympathetically restored by Electrostatic Solutions an... | |
| Classic Marantz and Citation vs modern I would love to have a tube 7 preamp. I remember it from back in the day and at one point tried to buy one, and got ripped off- eventually, I got recompense thanks to the Postmaster General. In terms of how it stacks up, I suspect that with judici... | |
| Using a power strip in an old home that was build back in 1955 Upgrade your electrical system. The house I live in now was built in 1880. It probably had no electricity when built and over the years, probably went from 60 amps to 200. The previous house I owned in NY was originally built in 1780. I had the el... | |
| Perhaps useless, but today is National Dog Day........ Then there are the Weiner dog races in Buda, Texas. Dauchshounds racing competitively. We went shortly after we got to Texas, and though we don’t have any dogs (cats, many), we had a blast. Folks took this really seriously, which made it even more... | |
| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports @no_regrets - yes, I think the CEC sounds better than the Oppo as a transport. I have a principal residence in Texas, so having somebody local to me is good. I really can't help you decide between the two decks. For a long time, I wasn't a dig... | |
| Can You Trust a Shipper? (UPS, Fed-Ex, etc) I get stuff shipped to me via various carriers. The key is packing and palletizing. Bespoke shipping- the guy with the Halliburton case handcuffed to his wrist tends to cost. I once inquired about shipping jewelry- not something that is easily d... | |
| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports @no_regrets I'm a lousy test case- I used an Oppo briefly as a transport and my CD listening is probably 5% of what I hear- I usually only fire up a CD of something that is impossible to get on LP or is crazy expensive and use it as a basis to dec... | |
| CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports I have the CEC TL 5. It needed something shortly after I got it and Audio Union here in the States serviced and returned it to me in a week. The remote is a cheesy plastic job, but you can buy a heavy aluminum one that is more appropriate. Have no... | |
| Record cleaning and realistic expectations @ghdprentice - For what it is worth, I don't think alcohol (most commonly denatured or isopropyl to prevent drinking) is necessarily harmful, though I rarely use it. It is an ok solvent and a modest surfactant (reduces water tension). One concern ... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company @mijostyn @wrm57 - wrm, my doppelgänger here, is right on with adding a "plate" to the Minus K. I use an HRS platform that I had prior to purchasing the Minus K. Particularly with my table, the Kuzma XL, which is machined brass, I would not want t... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes @cundare2 - I'm glad you got the old Quad gear restored, though you had to sell it. No images appear- as far as I know, you have to host them through a third party source, and then use the image function in the tool bar above to paste in the url w... | |
| Electrostatics and tubes I run a vintage system downstairs (separate from the main system shown in my profile here) that consists of a pair of Quads I bought in 1974. They were restored by Kent McCollum at Electrostatic Solutions in 2017. I had put them away back in 1990 ... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off @ostemo8- your original post and the comments it has generated have raised a number of different issues relating to different kinds of "noise." When I was doing the whole house generator, I was looking at the current draw of air conditioners- some... | |
| Those magical days when the HVAC is off I use an oversized iso transformer (10kVa) for my main system, which draws very little current. The AC system also has variable speed compressors, not just variable speed fans, so once set temperature is reached, the compressors wind down and func... |