whart
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| Insuring audio equipment @jafant :) | |
| Environmental Potentials whole house surge protection, can I get your opinions? This issue is timely for me since it looks like I’m finally moving from NY to Austin. I will be hiring an electrical contractor there for a build out. (I guess I need to buy the building first but planning is part of the process of selecting the r... | |
| Insuring audio equipment High end insurance companies will do this as a matter of course, e.g. Chubb, Ace (which bought Chubb). I originally insured my hi-fi under a blanket collectibles plan. It is now scheduled by item and retail/replacement value. I have also insured m... | |
| Klaudio ultrasonic cleaner - Only using distilled water? I have been using reagent water. Perhaps unnecessary, Rush mentioned a fairly high grade of water he gets at Whole Foods for almost nothing (you bring your own container). I still use the reagent water to mix fluids (Hannl fluid is great on my Mon... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's @fundsgon - even the old standard issue Warner of RLJ’s debut is pretty fab. (I don’t know how many different pressings of this record I have). Girl at Her Volcano, the EP, is pretty wonderful too (the digital aspect of this recording is not a neg... | |
| Do you clean your records before play, after play, or once (and then never again)? @bradf - you might look at Rushton’s thread here, which is based on an article he wrote for Positive Feedback. There is a relationship among size of bath, number and power of transducers, frequency, etc. viz surface area of records to be cleaned. ... | |
| AFI FLAT Record Flatener Thanks, @bluewolf .Like many things in life, once you focus on something, like warps, you see them everywhere! :) Those heavy ’50s and ’60s records are pretty bulletproof; the problem really seems to arise with the stuff in the later ’60s-after th... | |
| AFI FLAT Record Flatener Very interesting. Thanks for posting your review- did you buy this? I hadn’t even heard of it-- apparently Roy Gregory reviewed it this year, and had the same comments about the "Relax" function- not a lot of information from the manufacturer, but... | |
| The Electric Recording Co. ... thoughts on a 300 quid LP Aren’t the original pressings of the Martzy EMI records much more expensive? I don’t buy any top of the food chain records as an investment. If you watch the market for "rare" records over time, you will see that some stuff commands a big price, t... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's @bdp24 very kind of you--I'm a piker compared to some collectors or musicologists, but retiring has given me the time to really dig down. You're no slouch either.@goldeneraguy So nice to see you post. Always enjoy seeing you here- bringing a litt... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's Steve Wilson = genius. Multi-instrumental, mixes, produces, remixes famous classic prog, cool sounds, constantly cranking out stuff, different collaborations, including that Israeli rock musician, his stuff with Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth. Guy can ... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's Cz- not sure how you play grade a sealed record, but I usually don’t buy old sealed records b/c there is often no recourse, and it is truly an unknown. PS: if you mean that a sealed record can have problems, I agree. Perhaps I misunderstood your p... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's mm- no one source. Discogs is a decent starting place, but grading and pricing is all over the lot. For stuff like Warner green labels, many can be found in bins in used record stores all over the U.S. The Steve Hoffman forum is a good place to ge... | |
| Recommend your best sounding LP's mmporsche- congrats on your new table. (I had responded to your earlier thread about the point of diminishing returns by suggesting that it varies, depending on a lot of factors). So, too, with record recommendations: are you after "sonic porn" ju... | |
| What drugs do you use to enhance your listening experience? So, hi-fi is a sort of gateway drug. You buy a turntable, and the next thing you know, you are shooting junk. :)I dunno. I've been sober for going on 30 years, but back in the day, everybody got stoned to listen to music.Whatever floats your boat.... |