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| Cartridges The question makes it seem like this is a binary choice. I want the best cartridge I can afford that mates with my arm and voices in my system gracefully. I've achieved that at no small cost. As to buying premium "audiophile" records to compensate... | |
| Disappearing Jazz? In addition to the reissues @Sbank mentioned on vinyl-- high quality at a reasonable price, there are current bands- Snarky Puppy out of Northern Texas is a jazz collective that ought to scratch your big band itch. There are similar collectives in... | |
| Audio Desk Systeme - Vinyl Cleaner – Repair of Water Pump Failure Bill Wojo ++ I hear ya. | |
| Audio Desk Systeme - Vinyl Cleaner – Repair of Water Pump Failure Bill- one of the AD units I had would get stuck sometimes the rollers wouldn't retract- Robert Stein, the importer (Cable Company) just told me to "reboot" it like a computer- pull power and let it reset. That did fix that problem for a while. If ... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners @kennyc said" "KL is out of the USRCM business." They were. But Chad at Acoustic Sounds struck a deal to distribute a version of the smaller unit that has a separate reservoir. It also offers a connection to a household water supply. I have no de... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries And in re Canada, there's not a lot of info-- I found a scholarly policy paper behind a paywall that said Capitol EMI established their first plant in Canada in 1976. Another source on Capitol said that they used an RCA plant for pressing in Smith... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @teo_audio - you aren't off the wall on this. Discogs has pretty detailed info about EMI pressing plants and also covers the Philips/Phonodisc plants. I know from the history of Island Records (which did own a pressing plant at one point that wa... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners Thanks, Neil (@antinn) -that does sum it up nicely. | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners I’ll throw one more log on the fire--using surfactants in an ultrasonic should also involve some method to rinse and remove the fluid/contaminants once the cleaning is done. Some of the made for LP ultrasonics use forced air. When I had an Audio D... | |
| Bedini Amp repair Bill Thalmann is reputable, in Virginia and is probably very busy. He did a whole raft of work for me- an old tube preamp, a pair of ancient tube amps, restored a period Technics SP-10 etc. He was the Tech Director at Conrad Johnson. His shop is c... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @grislybutter - I don't want to sidetrack this discussion with the MoFi situation but there are bad sounding all analog records and good sounding records that used digital processes. I have a thing for post-bop "spiritual" or "soul" jazz from the ... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries So @steve_wisc @grislybutter : one way to start is to put into a good search engine "best vinyl pressing of"____ [name of album]. If it is classic rock, you will get hits for the Hoffman forum, in other cases, hard to predict. (I buy a lot of ... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners @drbond - loved the bread commercial if you remember it. I cannot control the web, but I use Cloudflare and have a really good IT guy here in the States. If you have access to a robust computer/printer system (work?), you might ask them to print ... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries With the exception of some knowledgeable record collectors/archivists/mastering engineers in the past (decades ago), I think a lot of the learning about records occurred (at least for me) after the Death of Vinyl.™ The market turned from mass prod... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners Hi, Terry. Thanks for the kind words, Neil really deserves the credit for his experience and effort. @antinn great to see you here too! |