whart
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| Avantgarde Uno/Duo I think you'll get a variety of answers, depending on what vintage the Avantgardes are, and what associated equipment is being used with them.I can speak to my experience with a set of Duos that I bought new, circa 2006 (and as to which I never di... | |
| Cleaning Phono Stylus- white residue Brian- even a cheap jeweler's loupe should give you the magnification you need. You can buy one on Amazon. I'd keep any liquids away from the cantilever, cartridge underbody or suspension. If you have a dry brush, like a small painter's brush, see... | |
| Cleaning Phono Stylus- white residue Sunny- You mentioned newer formulations of SPT, but the Lyra website seems to offer only one SPT product- is that it (the latest formulation in what appears to be the same packaging)? I used this stuff when I had Lyra cartridges, but that was quit... | |
| Six Moons charges for reviews? The ethical issues are really dependent on how the publisher runs the operation, since the conventional model, as others have pointed out, doesn't really assure editorial integrity anyway. (Despite all the dirt thrown against the wall over the yea... | |
| This might just be the end of brick and mortar Schubert- true, and since my niece, a millennial, seems perfectly content to watch a film or listen to music on her computer with a small ancillary sound system, this stuff has functionally replaced hi-fi and even 'home theatre' gear, rather than ... | |
| This might just be the end of brick and mortar Oblgny- I don't know if you remember what made the Stereo Exchange special in the early days- it was a bazaar of used high end- you could walk in and find the last flavor of the month at a decent price compared to retail or the usual discount. I b... | |
| Six Moons charges for reviews? Then there's the Marx Bros. business model:'How much does it cost not to get reviewed?''You can't afford it.' | |
| This might just be the end of brick and mortar I'm pretty much in agreement with Mitch2 (did you mean tailwind, toward demise, or headwind, to buffet their advance?)We have short memories, I think. Even in the heyday of the 'stereo store' (before we needed to distinguish so-called 'Brick &... | |
| South By Southwest? I'm not sure it is worth buying a wrist band for 'all access.' It gives you priority but not a guarantee, for access to some of the bigger name shows, but there is plenty of music available at venues for nothing. Basically, Austin is invaded by 1/... | |
| Quality system, make poor recordings sound better? I've gotten my system 'tuned' to be able to enjoy a wide variety of vinyl (my only source). Whether that means the system is colored or not, I hear a huge difference among different recordings and different pressings. I use horns as well (with SET... | |
| Have your standards/taste in music changed? Duane thanks for that. The US Vertigo of the first Patto is surprisingly good and compares favorably with the uk swirl. It is also available for under 100 US which is a fraction of the uk pressing. On Hold your Fire I "only" have the uk swirl and ... | |
| What's the best way to clean vinyl records? B Poletti, when you say 'no second rinse,' I take that to mean you are doing a rinse step with water after the DD, just not multiple rinse steps, right? | |
| What's the best way to clean vinyl records? BPoletti- yes, probably more. But, I think you'll agree, that there are probably that many different methods, approaches and favorite machines, fluids and different combinations of steps or sequences. I never used the DiscDoctor, from what I gathe... | |
| What's the best way to clean vinyl records? To Ebuzz: once i am able to effectively clean a record, I don't see a need to repeatedly re-clean it. In fact, as Doug pointed out, leaving any fluid/residue on the record- a risk in cleaning- makes things far worse than just leaving the record al... | |
| Have your standards/taste in music changed? I think I've probably come full circle. When I was a teen, I listened to the stuff I liked, early Zep, Allmans at the Fillmore, early Traffic, Tull (mostly pre-Aqualung), etc. Once I started to ascend the heights of 'audiophilia,' I learned there ... |