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| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? Good luck with the surgery @billstevenson. I've had a few of them. The very idea is almost worse than the actual procedure. I flip mats on the Monks if I want to wash/rinse on it, pop it into the ultrasonic and dry with the Monks, just to get t... | |
| Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation? Below is a photo of one of the cleaning stations at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, which is the intake facility for the Library of Congress. The photo was taken in late 2014. (The facility is not open to the public) I have been using a big Monks... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. One observation for which I don't have an answer- the Jade sounds different than the Tiger Eye on the same system. From what I gather the innards of both cartridges are the same. The difference in the hardness of the stone is recognized, generally... | |
| Do sound characteristics matter when moving from midfi to hifi? It is very hard to describe in words aural phenomenon, which is one reason why reviewers are constantly seeking better (and often more hyperbolic) adjectives. "Mid-Fi" and "high end" are gross labels that don’t tell us much: in the era of late 60s... | |
| Koetsu cartridges. They must be something special. @Lewm wrote: " "It seems that quite a number of Audiogoners have Koetsu, or a few of them." That sentence has its own escape clause." I read Inna's statement to mean that Koetsu are popular among participants and some have several of them. I ow... | |
| Mike's Barn. I know Mike through several phone conversations over the years. He’s a nice man, very generous with his time. My take-away is that even if you have a blue-sky project with virtually unlimited resources, it takes living with a system in a room to e... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research Apropos @richardbrand ’s post upthread, I got to meet Peter Walker at McCormick Place in Chicago during the 1976 CES. I had a pair of Quads which I bought in 1974 and they are still in use today! (Sympathetically restored by Kent McCollum in 2017)... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research It’s nice to read about folks who owned the gear (from) back in the early days. I guess I’m getting up there- audio history is fascinating to me, and there is so much cool, offbeat equipment that is lost to time. I’m glad ARC is still around. Spe... | |
| Need to learn about Audio Research Originally, the two companies marketed together. This was in the era -early ’70s- when the first generation of "high end" equipment was being made. (I distinguish that era- which included JG Holt’s Stereophile, erratically published out of Elwyn, ... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite turntable companies (manufacturer) and why? I don’t have a personal favorite- I think there is such a wide range of choices in drive systems, ergonomics, modern v. vintage and the need (or not) to use multiple arms of different types that the choices can be endless. I haven’t had a huge num... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite turntable companies (manufacturer) and why? @inna said: "Libraries and other places use Simon Yorke with SME arms for transfers. Who is familiar with them ? And why would they use it with SME arms and not full SME set up, I wonder ? Speaking of British." Here’s a photo in a restoration... | |
| Short in my system? I’ve tried grounding mats, brushes with grounding straps, etc. Long ago, I concluded that the best way to run my system is bare feet. I also clean my records in bare feet to minimize the risk of charging them. Resleeving can charge them through fr... | |
| Is the "improvement" real or imnagined? Years ago, a sound guru who has since gone to that big listening room in the sky suggested I start with phone books, and stack them til I achieved optimal sound. I don’t think they even make phone books anymore, so I’m dating myself. (When I date ... | |
| Recommendation for an HDMI cable under $200 for audio only If it follows the standard HDMI pinout, the DH Labs .5 meter is nice and not crazy money. Are you in the US? That will make a difference, at least in shipping. I found running the I2S, combined with a DDC, using comparatively inexpensive Chinese d... | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? I measure, sometimes out of curiosity and also when I do shoot-outs. Some records are cut "hotter" than others and the nominal level is higher, which may tilt the preference. To add to the variables that @lewm mentioned, I find that every record ... |