drmuso
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| Dusting gear and turntable I have a custom cloth cover for the dust cover of my old SOTA Star Sapphire. I don't recall who made it, but it's nice not to have to dust the turntable's acrylic dust cover often. I use a combination of my vacuum and impregnated dust rags for d... | |
| Vinyl Lovers-- Cartridges!!!! Do you have a daily driver? I'll second the comments of @billstevenson and @willy-t. I've used Stylast on my carts, and my last cart still sounded good after 1200 hrs., but it was a '90s cart so I thought I'd try something more current. Bought a broken-in Lyra Kleos, and ... | |
| Has this ever happened to you? For me it is more likely to happen when I listen to a particularly good recording. I think many audiophiles underestimate 1) the effects of their room acoustics and 2) the quality of a recording in how realistic their system can sound. I have a... | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS I can heartily recommend the Denafrips Ares II. I recently moved up to the Denafrips Venus 15, and the Ares has about 90% of the sound quality of the much more pricey (and bigger) Venus 15. I think it's one of the best bargains in the audiophile... | |
| How often to you clean vinyl and the needle? I clean the record before play with a carbon fiber brush, and I use a brush to clean the stylus after each play. I use the LAST stylus cleaning fluid about once a month and the Oznow stylus cleaner about once a month, or when I think the sttylus ... | |
| Do you prefer tall speakers I definitely prefer tall speakers--at least 5 ft. tall. They reproduce soundstage height better than shorter speakers, and once you get accustomed to that, it's hard to go back to shorter speakers, regardless of what other charms they may have. ... | |
| If you HAD to purchase a used (over 4 years old) DAC, what would it be? I'm pleased enough with my Denafrips Venus 15 that I'd go for a Denafrips Terminator 12 or Terminator Plus, whichever of those were made 4 yrs. ago. | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. I have three pairs of speakers in different rooms, and none are toed-in. One pair is my Apogee Duetta IIs, which I don't think anyone toes in. The others are conventional floor-standing box speakers, mid-level models by Paradigm and PSB that I u... | |
| ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE STREAMERS REALLY WORTH IT I’m using a blue sound node 130 with an upgraded LPS going into a Denafrips Hermes DDC and the new Denafrips Venus 15 DAC. I have not heard other streamers, but I think this combination sounds great. Hi-Rez files from Qobuz can sound better than ... | |
| Location of compoments. @whart Hey... another Audiogoner with a Marshall half-stack in his listening room! I also go with the short speaker cables from monoblocks and long interconnects to my racks that are on the right side of the room. Galen Carol, a TX audiophile ... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers @lewm You raise good questions. Hopefully, some grad student somewhere will research the answers. I have my beliefs/worries, but it's all speculative. | |
| Which company manufactures this Ethernet switch for the other? @richardbrand This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FFTdt51kzA also contends that there is no issue with jitter at the ethernet part of the system, but that there may be noise issues an ethernet switch could address. Another way to do th... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers Having seen how dust accumulates on a de-staticized LP even with a dust cover on, I would never play a record with the dust cover off. I have a HEPA air filter in the room with the turntable, and I don’t think that completely eliminates accumulati... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? Hardly any mention of AC cable. It makes a difference, and it's something users can often change, unlike most of the other components. | |
| What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record? I zap it with my Zerostat then clean it on my Nitty Gritty RCM--first using the MoFi Super Deep Cleaner and then their regular record wash. I apply the cleaners by placing the LP on a rubber record mat in its shipping box, so there is a solid sur... |