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| Motorman's New Scam Of The Week - the miraculous Furutech LP Demagnetizer If you want to do a "test run" for very little money, pick up an old reel-to-reel tape demagnetizer on eBay (VERY powerful and more than 7 miles of windings ;~) Place your LP on the spindle, apply power, and rotate two or more times, flip, and r... | |
| Headphone help... with more details :-) If you liked the 57’s then you definitely want to consider phones with a planar magnetic driver. Unfortunately, the price of entry is a little higher. But if you want to try out a vintage planar magnetic (Orthodynamic) for (usually) under $200, ke... | |
| What happened to the "club atmosphere" of Audiogon? If one is offended by extremely low offers, you are probably too attached to your equipment and shouldn't be selling it (OK, only kidding! ;~) But there are two solutions: either ignore the offending offer (and put it out of your mind!) or don't... | |
| What happened to the "club atmosphere" of Audiogon? A few years ago, the "financial partners" in this site decided the site should be making more money. Nothing wrong with that, as a goal; the times were changing. The simplest way to achieve that end would have been to raise prices, right? Inc... | |
| Do you remember when Audiogon was just a bulletin board classified ad site? I enjoyed Al's story about Walt Bender being upset with Al's (over) pricing a piece of equipment. I'm pretty sure the reason Walt was upset was because Walt had a (bitterly criticized!) reputation for cherry-picking the listings before he publis... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only . . . . . and I guess I'm the THIRD GUY who bought the Smiley Smile album? I also was lucky enough to have a good friend drag me to Brian's live "Smile" concert (in Phoenix) when that album was finally released a few years ago . . . . | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? If anyone wants to inquire about the Premier product and if it was different from the (regular) Micro Care contact cleaner, the company to call is Micro Care. They were the ones who (also) supplied Premier (for which Smart Devices used to charge $... | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Hello Ct0517Re the Premier products: it looks like Soundstage, MusicDirect, and Acoustic Sounds all list the item as discontinued? All I know is it's still available from All-Spec, and when I took the time to look closely at fine print on both pro... | |
| Why a headphone amp There are a handful of manufacturers that offer headphone 'interface' units that allow you to drive headphones from a conventional amplifier's loudspeaker taps. They are inexpensive (compared to a decent tube or ss headphone amp) and shouldn't be ... | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? One way to get rid of the residual dust that gets past filters, seals and every other mechanical strategy available, is ionization. There are room ionizers and whole house units (even some that can be installed in an existing HVAC system.)They act... | |
| Cleaning records. How often really? Albert, if you like the Premier cleaner, then buy it here like I do:http://www.all-spec.com/products/MCCCCC.htmlIt's the EXACT SAME STUFF as Premier and as you can see, much less expensive! I understood it is more a replacement for carbon tetrachl... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Per Albert's July entry, I went back and read the "July" posts, and I must say, I think some folks are 'overthinking' this subject!When folks in our Western (or Western-ized) culture have discretionary time-and-money (not already reserved for othe... | |
| Top ten DD turntables of all time? First, I want to update the link I posted in my 12-14-05 entry (scroll up) for the famous Direct Drive site. That (old) link is dead, but all is not lost! (it is now archived.) I think I'm going to save the whole site to my hard drive, just in cas... | |
| acoustic zen reference or venustas Rsf507 -- you have obviously done some serious listening while comparing these cables. And I'm sure your conclusions are carefully considered.The problem (for me anyway) is that your report provides no CONTEXT. So without an overview of your compo... | |
| acoustic zen reference or venustas There is a BIG difference in construction between Purist and Cardas products. Most Cardas products use their 'Golden Mean' system of windings, which at least in terms of construction, means MULTIPLE strands of wire -- making their cable HIGHLY CAP... |