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| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning You may find this explanation of different purification processes helpful: [url]http://www.emdmillipore.com/US/en/water-purification/learning-centers/tutorial/purification-techniqu...[/url] The source is a manufacturer of equipment used in labs a... | |
| FM Antennas For Old School Tuner? I set up a vintage system recently with a tuner and did not want to install an outdoor antenna. I tried the one Magnum Dynalab indoor model- not the rod- with mixed success. I tracked down a guy who used to make an elaborate adjustable indoor arra... | |
| New Vinyl @bdp24 - I think, at least with the audiophile reissue houses that go to the trouble of sourcing from tape (and have the clout to get access to the tapes), they usually don't want to take risks given the upfront costs- that is why it is the same p... | |
| New Vinyl Sounds like you are looking for rock. Are you resistant to older pressings?brian davison-every which way- on mercury- shouldn’t cost you more than 30 dollars for a clean copy- very much like old Traffic- blues shouter with some exotic and jazz mot... | |
| If your system were a car! Although car analogies in hi-fi only go so far (and we've seen them in reviews and comments over the years, I've used them too), I never really thought about what car(s) my system(s) are comparable to. I was a "car guy" since I was a kid (though I... | |
| Acony records @mofimadness - I knew I recognized her voice from the "O Brother Where Art Thou" album. BTW, Amazon seems to be selling some new-ish vinyl at close to wholesale prices. Just bought a copy of that for 18 dollars w/ free shipping. | |
| 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... |