whart
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| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening An effective cleaning regimen is also essential, particularly if you dive into used records. There are a million and one ways, different machines, methods, etc. I've had the best success combining traditional vacuum type with ultrasonic. The latte... | |
| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening @greginnh - I think you make a point--"everything sounds great until you hear something better" that is worth underscoring, whatever the budget. If someone hasn't been around the audio scene in a while, they may not appreciate how far we have com... | |
| Just retired and want to get back to vinyl listening I’m going to make a few radical observations that are borne out of the many threads of this type on this forum and others:First, the equipment suggestions are invariably a reflection of how the person making the recommendations would spend your mo... | |
| Sellers increasingly overgrade records I don’t know if grading inflation has gotten worse- maybe it has- but it’s always been a problem for used records. Play grading is the only arguably safe way--brick & mortar transactions that give you the opportunity to inspect may be better t... | |
| Moving a 5,000 vinyl LP collection safely There's a section of Newburgh near the river that is old houses+ gorgeous. I forget what it is called. Yeah, it is a little rough there. I used to drive my sports cars and bikes north and would sometimes come through in one direction or another. A... | |
| Moving a 5,000 vinyl LP collection safely I recently moved from the lower Hudson Valley to Austin, TX, with approximately the same number of LPs. I packed them myself in double walled boxes that I got in bulk from one of the specialty suppliers, Bags Unlimited. I numbered each box and had... | |
| ARC D-76A Filter Cap Replacement I’ve never done it. I had my Dual 75a done over ten years ago through a dealer- I think they farmed out the work to Soundsmith, who was (and may still be) an authorized repair center for ARC.Here’s the book with the schematics if you don’t have th... | |
| Are you seeing more 9/10s? No different than buying old records --where "very good" means precisely the opposite. Grading inflation. | |
| Austin Record Convention @trytone - my experience, for the big ticket items, is that most dealers put them online to reach the broadest audience. (Similar I guess to vintage wine market, though I really don't dabble in that). The rare stuff in prog/early rock/post-pysch f... | |
| Austin Record Convention I went to the last one and thought it much better than one I attended a couple years before--higher quality wares in general. I will probably attend this one as well. I didn't buy much at the last show several months ago - partly because I am real... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? @bdp24 - perhaps you are correct as a matter of terminology, but it becomes like ordering non-decaffeinated coffee- an acoustic bass to distinguish it from the far more common electric bass in rock or blues? Yeah, I get it, but the instruments sou... | |
| How "Tribal" are we? Ironically, I think ’we’ have more in common than the average person who has no deep interest in music or gear. At a certain point, you can keep slicing and dicing the differences- tubes, no only SET, but in the end, it’s still about producing som... | |
| Thief Alert I love the "my cousin is a bounty hunter." Sorry this happened. The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but....regards, | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? @bdp24 - but Atkinson may be right about that. Last time I heard James Hunter, that blue-eyed soul devil with the killer band, I was reminded of how good rock and roll sounds with a double bass. Tone, tension, and a less "thudding" sound even when... | |
| Latest bin find.....Elton John Some of the UK DJMs are on semi-translucent vinyl- though it looks like normal black vinyl, if you shine a light behind it, you can see it is a dark, almost blood red color. The preferred pressings, sonically, are, if memory serves, not these tran... |