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| MM or MI Cartridge? @mglik The kitty is probably empty after buying the Epoch 3, so this may be immaterial. John Wright sold his business at the last moment, and a few people have reported having Decca cartridges serviced satisfactorily by the new tech. There was eve... | |
| Changing panels in Quad Speakers They sound exactly as they used to do! The panels were ordered by the dealer who sold me the speakers, from the distributor, M0-Fi. Each was $399CDN. Installation cost me a six hour drive, gas for the truck, and $255CDN. The tech who did it took ... | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? The Nagaoka MP-500 is the closest sounding cartridge to my London Decca Reference. I have bought a couple of spare styli for it, plus a tonearm to mount it on. It's that good, and clearly beats the Grado Statement 3 and the SoundSmith Sussurro MkI... | |
| Turntables: 2 Tonearms. What do you Have or Know About? @elliottbnewcombjr I would have made one of the tonearms removable headshell. Yes, the M10 arm has a removable headshell (second photo of my tables, the arm at the back), and I have spare headshells with the Grado and Soundsmith cartridges mo... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Neil is our most reliable source. | |
| Turntables: 2 Tonearms. What do you Have or Know About? Thanks for the credit in the OP @elliottbnewcombjr, but I should note that whilst you might be the one that is 74, I am not, being a mere youngster of 65! Two tonearms? I had an expensive journey in that regard. I started it with an SME 10 turnta... | |
| Vacuuming after ultrasonic vinyl cleaning I do a point-source vacuum clean on a Loricraft machine, then use a Degritter. I let the Degritter dry the record, then put it back on the Loricraft for a distilled water rinse and dry. The issue with fan drying is static accumulation, plus the r... | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Thank you, that makes some sense of it for me. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" My grandmother used to have a saying, very dated now: "Good manners cost nothing." | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Can anyone explain how a brush might, theoretically, remove static? If the bristles were conductive and grounded I could see a mechanism, but not otherwise. That may be pure ignorance on my part! | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" WOW what? If one might ask. | |
| So I bought a WallyScope... I have two USB microscopes, one better than the other for this job. My experience is similar to yours: I can spend ages adjusting, measuring and finally getting it 'right' - but then realising that 'right' is just the starting point as listening a... | |
| Can you pick out what is what? Sure you can spice things up with fancy circuitry or tubes etc, but ultimately, they don’t necessarily sound better, but different, as has been said an abundance of times. Remembering that better is different from worse..... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" In the UK the saying is that 'there are many ways to kill a cat.' I find that the cat gets skinned when the same sentiment is expressed here in north America (superficially that sounds kinder, but one hopes the cat was killed prior to skinning.😕) ... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 Autograph or autograft? I know about allografts, since I now have German blood (I feel an urge to mimic Dr Strangelove there). Whichever matters not. I don't think I'll ever hear an Epoch 3, I only know that the cheapest member of the Lineage ser... |