whart
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| Finally found THE SPEAKER!!! A facility with 75+ editing rooms is a pretty serious operation. So I looked you up based simply on the information in this thread and found you at Pixar, which would make sense. As to whether your are "real" or a shill, I would think you could wo... | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? @chakster said: "It’s better to buy on discogs as you can see exact pressing, deadmarks and all details about each version."My reaction: unless the seller misgraded and/or put the record in the wrong category. I usually converse through the Discog... | |
| Sell LP's: No visible scuffs. Let buyer remove static if needed? I actually prefer buying records that haven’t been cleaned by the seller given big questions about how effectively they clean (I have a very good regime) and whether the "cleaning" is really further contaminating the record. I don’t know why you h... | |
| I Just Inherited 4,000 LPs Have fun. Sorry your friend passed. I bought the collection of a friend whose wife/widow kept them in an air conditioned room dedicated to LP storage for 14 or 15 years after he died. She had attempted a few times to sell them and I finally said, ... | |
| Off center (not bent!) stylus? @hauie88--Nope. Back in the day, I often only listened to a selected track or two from an album, then flipped to something else. I was pretty careful to drop in the dead space between tracks, but I'm human and that's an imperfect process. These da... | |
| Off center (not bent!) stylus? Keep in mind that those needle drops may leave a click in the record (even when the stylus/cantilever is fine, that's a risk, unless you are dead-eye on the space between tracks). Thom/Galibier explained the issue very clearly in terms of the skew... | |
| Off center (not bent!) stylus? They aren't the same as the original. Peter did re-do my Airtight Supreme without changing the cantilever, but sticking a fresh stylus tip in the factory cantilever, but even that may change the sound. (I have not mounted it since it came back, it... | |
| Off center (not bent!) stylus? @hauie88- our member @chakster seems to be a guru for these old gems so he may know what the replacement stylus market is like for this piece. I think Mr. Pickering only died a few years ago, but it's been years since I played with one of their ca... | |
| Off center (not bent!) stylus? I wouldn't play a record with a cantilever canted that much. Out of curiosity @millercarbon, do you own a Soundsmith cartridge? I know you cite to him constantly but have you ever even talked to the man?I suspect if you sent that pic to Soundsmith... | |
| What did your system look like 30 years ago? This was 45 years ago:1975 SystemTechnics SP 10 in custom plinth, AT arm, AT cartridge,* ARC SP3-a-1, Dual 75a and old Quads. I still have the SP 10 and old Quads refurbished and running in my vintage system, and the Dual 75a is just sitting, need... | |
| Dedicated circuit I’m not @jea48, but until he chimes in, I can tell you that I run a compressor as part of my hi-fi system-- fairly substantial, at one point a 1 hp 13 gallon unit- but even with smaller units, there was a nasty electrical snap that could be heard ... | |
| HDMI Splitter...Sending Audio-Only to Processor The device @golfnutz identified might be exactly what you are after; I'm not sure about your objective, but the audio return channel (ARC) on my TV system allows me to send a 4k signal from an Amazon Fire Cube to the TV and using an additional hdm... | |
| Allnic 1201 replacement tubes? There is/was a special tube puller "claw" that came with the h3000 phono stage to remove the tubes from the gel sockets. Is the same true with the 1201? | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @lxgreen - your response raises a number of good issues, none of which are confined to the Nitty Gritty machine. One is multiple cleaning methods and steps, which I have found to be synergistic. Despite your delight with the results of the Degritt... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @antinn did a good job of summarizing what is available as a "one button" type pop in the record and walk away type ultrasonic. @keegiam- you are astute enough to appreciate that the ultrasonic cleaning is not a complete solution and if you are bu... |