whart
Responses from whart
| 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... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @billstevenson -that paper, written by Neil Antin, seems almost overwhelming at first but Neil does an excellent job of methodically explaining not only what he is doing, but why. Neil was responsible for the cleaning protocols of oxygen systems o... |