oldaudiophile
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| Dusting gear and turntable @dwette thanks for the lead. However, 400 bucks for a dust cover? Probably more for custom jobs? If you're handy and have the appropriate tools, you can buy plexiglass panels from a building supplies store, cut 'em down with a glass cutter and ... | |
| Dusting gear and turntable FWIW: I HATE dusting! It's a thankless job! However, when necessary, I use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. Since the late 70s, however, I've been in the habit of using dust covers to entirely cover my TT, amp and CD transport when not in ... | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought I've done serious seat-time with state-of-the-art digital source equipment (i.e. streaming & CDs) and relatively affordable good quality analogue source equipment (i.e. non-Mikey Fremer astronomically priced TTs; phono stages; carts; etc.) a... | |
| Modular LP record storage suggestions @howardlee I have several hundred vinyl albums in my collection and searched high & low for a cost-effective storage solution. My advice on this would be to speak with a local carpenter about building either 6' or 7' bookcases that could easi... | |
| System Advice @aarongreenb You say you love those speakers. What amplification have you used with them, so far, that make you love them? I'm not familiar with that particular model of Totem speakers. However, those I have spent serious seat-time with I've fo... | |
| What actually determines volume power? Is it watts? First and foremost, it would be helpful to know if the OP has ever undergone an audiometry evaluation and what the results were. | |
| Is it the gear or the ears? Absolutely hilarious! Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of a cartoon I saw years ago, likely in a magazine catering to audiophiles. The premise, as best I can recall, was an audiophile coming into the proverbial local high-end shop to have his amp... | |
| Tone Arm Lifter Another vote for the Audio Technica AT6006R! Quality manufacturing, reasonably priced and lifts your tonearm gently. There are cheaper or less expensive alternatives that lift a tonearm but do so very abruptly. I wouldn't trust those. My fear ... | |
| YOUR AUDIOPHILE JOURNEY WHEN DID IT START AND HOW DID YOU GET TO YOUR DREAM SYSTEM? As a very young kiddo in the 50s, I listened to my aunt's tabletop record player and, later, as a young teen, to my parents' Grundig console. However, I would say the audiophile bug bit me in 1971, after listening to a high school friend's 2 chan... | |
| Some thoughts on dust covers It's obvious, to me, that this Chief Engineer of Thorens, at that time, was doing nothing other than damage control, to cover up a significant engineering design fault. If the tolerances between the platter, record and TT dustcover were so tight ... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @vitussl101 the reason I gave you a little detail (i.e. more, evidently, than your mind can handle) was to attempt to point out that there are many different record cleaning methodologies (i.e. different equipment, conditions, fluid temperatures... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @vitussl101 Again, I cannot emphasize enough how important I think it is for all those interested in record cleaning to read "Precision Aqueous Cleaning of: Vinyl Records" at the Vinyl Press. BTW, if you haven't already figured this out, "antinn... | |
| Retirement integrated amp for a “fiscal conservative” @ezstreams CONGRATTULATIONS on making it to the light at the end of the tunnel! That's an awfully lovely TT to let lie fallow! I also have a record collection predominantly from the 60s through the 80s which are in great shape. I'm in the proce... | |
| MusicDirect,, I received their thick, presumably annual catalogue, once, after making a relatively expensive purchase. Since then, I've made other comparatively less expensive purchases over the years, including gift purchases. They even sent one of those thi... | |
| "Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better! @vitussl101 Yes, I know what you mean. The little bottle you're talking about is Mofi's Ultra Record Wash concentrate for ultrasonic cleaning machines. Again, you can make your own for a fraction of the cost. |