krusty2k
Responses from krusty2k
| Why is some vinyl noisy? Every now and then one runs into a "pre-owned" LP that looks pristine and plays horribly. My best guess it that it was handled well but played with a bad (chipped? too heavy?) stylus back in the day. Better luck next time. | |
| Beloved equipment "Is that an EL34 in your tube socket or are you just happy to see me?" | |
| Do you have a secret "guilty pleasure" recording? Richard Harris - "The Love Album." So bad it's good... | |
| Air kills cartridges? I know this started out as a question about a cartridge but it appears that we may have found some more parameters for the "ideal" listening room: an airtight environment filled with an inert gas (such as nitrogen), perhaps cooled to absolute zero... | |
| Did I kill my stylus? The only thing you probably killed was the lead-out. I did this once, only I left the turntable on overnight. No damage to the cartridge. | |
| May Day May Day My first was a "Close-N-Play" circa 1968, I was around five years old. Parents used to take me to Woolworths to buy 45's at three for a dime. I picked out the ones with the pretty lablels. The start of a life-long obsession with vinyl, I guess... | |
| South Florida Record Stores? Try Kelly's Klassics in Fort Lauderdale, lots of vinyl but be prepared to dig. Also try Frank's store in Melbourne (forgot the name, something like "Play it Again"), tons of vinyl. | |
| What does Thanks again, El...quite puzzling. Unrelated to appliances, as problem sometimes occurs when nothing is running. | |
| What does Thanks Eldarado...I would have suspected the same thing, both speakers, but no, one at a time. I am running a low-power tube amp, one output tube each side. Switching tubes simultaneously has no effect on the speaker making the noise. | |
| Best way to copy LPs to CD's using a Computer I second RW's response. Four or five years ago I purchased a stand-alone component, Pioneer PDRW-8339, for several hundred dollars. I have not been disspointed. The unit has made hundreds and hundreds of CD's with audio quality very close to the v... | |
| Little red gun next to turntable. Don't let the threat of a little radiation scare you off. You may wish to consider a Family Radiation Measurement Kit made by Bendix during the Cold War. Mine looks exactly like the one in the picture:http://cgi.ebay.com/Bendix-family-radiation-me... | |
| LAST Record Preservative. Do you believe? The first response is dead on. Invest in a good record cleaning machine. I have yet to see a clean LP from the early LP days, now 50 years ago, that has "degraded" over the course of five decades, so why add a "preservative"? | |
| 2a3 or 300b amp for me ? Cannot comment on a 2A3 or 300b, but I am running Steve Deckert's new 6W Taboo pentode amp with my Cornwalls. Absolutely stunning results for just over $800, and you get a 30-day money back guarantee. Runs with EL84/SV83 tubes. Amazingly neutral f... | |
| BB King...for a newbie Another vote for "Live at the Regal." There is a also a nice collection of Louis Jordan tunes that came out a few years ago, though I think it is only available on CD and sounds, well, very digital. My personal favorite is the early material (pre-... | |
| LPs and allergies, anyone? I would suggest mylar-type resealable outer sleeves. They would virtually seal the LP. In addition, the clear material is much prettier than those hazy poly-bags that seem to fade over time, even more so with regular handling. The mylar-type sleev... |