billstevenson
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| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? If any who haven't tried Last lives in or near West Palm Beach, Florida, I would be happy to have you bring a record or two over to the house and I will treat them for you. You can listen before and after treatment and decide for yourself if you ... | |
| Help! New mono cartridge for Dad's present-need the least amount of tweaking There are a lot of ways to skin a cat. To answer your question, yes you can buy him a DL102 and it will be very similar in weight and overall dimensions to his 103, therefore, it will be easy enough to switch back and forth. All else being equal... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? Blueanger, I never buy the 2 oz. bottle and never counted the number of records, but know how you can find the answer as to the number of records you can expect to treat per bottle. You can call Last and they will tell you or you can call a reta... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? This is a response to whart's questions:Clearly the demonstration I described constituted a severe test. Nobody is going to repeatedly play the same record over and over again in normal circumstances. The point of the demonstration was simply to ... | |
| Is the Last Record Preservative system a worthwhile investment? When Last Record Preservative first was introduced the sales rep visited our store and made a very convincing demonstration. He cleaned two new identical records and treated one with Last and left one untreated. Then the two records were put on ... | |
| Technics SL-1200G Anti-Skating I would be interested to learn if you find that following Peter's method results in a significant difference as compared to just setting it as per the dial on your Technics TT. FWIW, my experience on my GAE has been that the Technics setting is a... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Given the nature of this question and the attitudes expressed by the poster the answer for you sir is: YES. Now go away. | |
| Any thoughts on Sugarcube device The following is in part a review that I wrote for the VPI Forum: The SugarCube works as advertised. That is, it removes ticks, pops and noise on old and worn records, although not always perfectly. I have found that badly damaged records can't... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor At the risk of starting another war, I would like to offer the following observation. The MintLP, which I happen to use myself and like quite well, is based on the Stevenson model. Sorry Raul. Which, leads to my main reason for posting: The dif... | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? I have a Conrad Johnson TEA2MAX, high gain (55db) and a Bob's SUT set to 5:1 and it sounds mighty good with my Ortofon Per Winfeld. Trouble for all of us is that we don't know how all of these compare with each other. Isn't it ironic that in tod... | |
| technics sl 1200 gae My GAE is fitted with an Ortofon Per Windfeld and it is superb. It recently was fitted with a KAB fluid damper that does no harm. The headshell makes a difference too, I have settled on the Yamamoto HS-2S carbon. I also changed arm wire, but we... | |
| Sweetvinyl Sugarcube - SC1 and SC2 I have an SC1 and like it a lot. It does an amazing job on many, but not all records. It depends on the nature of the damage. On some records it takes a noisy surface and cleans it up completely. Other records, it takes all but the worst noise... | |
| Outer Platter Rings I have one for my VPI Prime. I use is for warped records only and it only works properly on the bare platter, i.e. no mat. So it gets used sparingly. I hear no benefit sonically for flat records. The long and the short of it is that is is of l... | |
| Technics 1200G Tweaks Dear Raul,I agree with you about arm wire, which explains why I followed your advice and recommendations for changing mine. As I explained, most people would like and probably prefer the result. I agonized over it, not least because of the expen... | |
| Technics 1200G Tweaks My tweaks are as follows:1. Yamamoto HS-4S headshell and wires2. Note, I tried Raul's arm wire change and found that it improved detail, but I thought it was an unnatural sound. An expensive mistake for me I went back to the stock wire. 3. In... |