captain_winters
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| Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner 120khz now that is interesting. Nice looking unit and looks well thought out with filtering and drying. Was there ever a consensus on higher frequency 120khz vs lower frequency 40khz? I recall advocates on both sides of the argument.I am still cl... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. I only use new tapes. These are the 3 tapes I use. RMGI/PYRAL LPR-35 (1mil tape) RMGI/PYRAL SM-911 ATR MDS-35 (1 mil tape) I have one sample of the MDS-35, but I really like it, frequencies record very well on that tape from my Crown CX-822.For ... | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. Should have said:"Other than cleaning the heads and setting tape bias for the different tapes" | |
| How often do you have to service your Studer or Otari deck ? Home not pro environment. I have a Crown CX-822 reel to reel. I bought my unit from Chuck Ziska, Crown engineer that now refurbishes them. I haven't had to service it yet. BTW, I am not sure there is anything to service other than cleaning the heads. To answer your questio... | |
| Outer ring - who uses and what are your findings I hadn't seen that, using the spindle for positioning the outer ring. Very innovative. | |
| How do you like your VPI -Classic, Scout, Scoutmaster, Prime, TNT, ? Some more information FWIW from my Classic 3 ownership. I tried 4 cartridges on the table and ranked them. In my opinion they are also in my preference order from least to most preferable:Dynavector 20x2 = 50 hoursDynavector XX-2 MK II = 459 hours... | |
| How do you like your VPI -Classic, Scout, Scoutmaster, Prime, TNT, ? Since you asked, her are some very unique attributes to Spiral Groove SG2 with Spiral Groove Centroid Arm that really attracted my interest, and kept my interest for a number of years while I was looking to acquire one. I put in quotes words from ... | |
| Outer ring - who uses and what are your findings I did that ritual for 5 years on my Classic 3 and it became so routine I didn't really think of it as a choir after a while. However, when I changed over to the Spiral Groove SG2 with Centroid Arm I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to flip... | |
| How do you like your VPI -Classic, Scout, Scoutmaster, Prime, TNT, ? Nice system, I also have Sophia IIs. I went from a VPI Classic 1 to a Classic 3 and now I have a Spiral Groove SG2 with Spiral Groove Centroid Arm. I looked up my notes from 2012 when I upgraded from the Classic 1 to the 3."First thing you notice... | |
| VPI 3D tonearm Stringreen are you using your JWM VTA tower, or is there a new VTA tower that comes with the 3D arm? | |
| Need Advice on Checking Stylus I think it is worth, it is great seeing the different stylus designs at 800x. Plus with experience you might be able to detect wear. You can get a cheap digital microscope, like mine, for around $60, but you get what you page for. Getting it focus... | |
| Thinking About Upgrading the VPI Tonearm Base Bifwynne,Now that you have the VTA tower, dial in your SRA, I did mine with a digital microscope at 91 degrees, then re-align with the MINTLP at that VTA/SRA. I think you will notice an improvement. BTW, what I just did is adjust my azimuth at my ... | |
| Need Advice on Checking Stylus I think at 50x you will not be able to come to any conclusions about your stylus, unless it is just plain broken. I have a digital microscope, cheap one, which goes up to 800x, and I use it for SRA. As far as determining wear, even at 800x, it is ... | |
| VPI 3D tonearm I believe I saw a picture of the brass side weights, maybe on VPI Facebook, the side weights looked very beefy, larger that the current JWM arms. | |
| VPI 3D tonearm So one piece tonearm, made out of composite material, a traditional VPI uni-pivot. I would think the race, or female portion of the pivot, which is in the arm would have to be the traditional stainless steel, not composite. I am speculating here, ... |