bpoletti
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| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? @invictus005 - You have yet to answer what kind of material you’re trying to clean from the grooves? Do you actually KNOW or are you just ignoring the reality of the process? Have you reviewed the issue from a chemical perspective? What did you di... | |
| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? @ invictus005 - what are you trying to clean out of the grooves? Water is the universal solvent. | |
| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? @invictus005 - OK, it may do no harm, but how is it effective as a cleaner? It's not nearly the solvent as distilled water. | |
| How much should a person spend to get a decent power conditioner? Here is a list of all the reasons why an audiophile should buy a quality power conditioner: Is it necessary for me to relist all those reasons?Just use a single power outlet unless your power consumption needs exceed the rating of the outlet. | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable [tfpic mode /on] The reason maple butcher block is used because there is a scarcity of The ideal material, solid blocks of argon. It's perfect, but very hard to keep in its solid state. [tfpic mode /off]It seems that maple block is not the best... | |
| How much isopropanol is effective but safe for viny? Only my opinion. And I may be wrong.The questions really boil down to what bad stuff is in the grooves and what will be remove it. The most likely foreign materials would be dirt, dust, oils. Maybe some grease. It ends up that Isopropanol is not a... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @lewm Sauerkratut cans work just fine under tables manufactured by the Swiss and Germans. | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @geoffkait One of the best characteristics of Spam is that it has no expiration date. It's good forever even if it's left out in the open at room temperature. | |
| Phono stage inquiry I have a Herron Audio VTPH-2a that is dead silent, even on the MC side. There should be NO noise from a phono stage at slightly elevated listening levels. If there is, it's either a bad unit or it's a bad design. | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @ glupson - Be very careful! Mine implosions are dangerous. The results just suck. And beware! Most of the visitors to Iowa go missing. They just wander out into the fields and are never seen again. Rumor is they die of boredom, but nobody has gon... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @glupson - LMAO is an abbreviation for Loose Molecular Attraction Oscillator. It an advanced audio component that mounts next to any power outlet used for audio equipment. It's purpose is to magnetically remove bad electrons and re-spin the rema... | |
| Using Maple Butcher Block Under a Turntable @bba - I'm cheap and lazy. Went to Amazon and picked up a maple (mable?) butcher block end grain board about the same size as my table. I have a few different materials to try under the board including a couple of different types / shapes / thic... | |
| Wet Cleaning records makes things worse? Think through your technique. Think through a distilled water rinse using a lint-free pad or cloth. But also look at Disk Doctor one-step non-rinse product. | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! Sometimes it might be better to give less, rather than more information. | |
| Thorens Turntables Thorens has been around longer than many of us. They are Swiss, make excellent tables (depending on the model) and stand behind their products. ALL of their products. Their TD-124 is legendary and a very good performer. It's hard to tell how a... |