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TheVinylPress.com
And for comparison:https://audio16.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/aqualung-my-friend/ 
Lyra Delos 'belly cover'
Regarding the use of forceps/tweezers around cartridges, I find a good pair of bamboo tweezers to be indispensable:http://www.amazon.com/Hozan-P-863-150-ESD-Bamboo-Tweezers/dp/B004K0KT7K 
Lyra Delos 'belly cover'
Don't. It will void the warranty of the cartridge. If yours is riding low, send it back to Lyra and they can adjust it. 
Extraordinary recordings on vinyl
Qdrone,I agree regarding "Fireball" - a relatively overlooked gem. However, I actually prefer the original US green label Warner copy to the Harvest pressing. It's a bit more immediate and has a better low end IMO. Also, the US copy contains 'Stra... 
Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt
Doug,I think the Kapton belts run truer around the pulley, resulting in better overall speed stability. In general, any splice will result in some small runout error causing the belt to slightly oscillate up and down the face of the pulley - the K... 
Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt
It appears that finding Mylar belts has become increasingly difficult. I've been using a spliceless Kapton belt (2 mil thickness, 1/2" width, 45" circumference). IMO, much better than a spliced Mylar belt - Kapton is utilized as the drive belt in ... 
Top 5 Hamburgers
But you could check these places out nearly anywhere - they're all chains (which given the context of the thread seems antithetical). Just sayin'... 
worst sounding great lps
"Aqualung...dreadful production."-You've obviously never heard the Classic Clarity single sided 45RPM set of Aqualung. "Anything from Queen"-Try "Jazz" and "The Game" 
worst sounding great lps
Utopia - Adventures in UtopiaBright, thin and shrill but with great tunes. In fact, most things Rundgren mixed/mastered himself sound like crap. 
Metal "whiskers" on cartridge body
The metal is attracted by the strong magnets in the cartridge. As to how they get there, it beats me. Since record pressing is a purely mechanical process not carried out in a clean-room, it's possible there's always a bit of metal residue from th... 
Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt
Try here:http://fjminc.com/store/tapes-and-streamers/holographic-tape/You might want to try cleaning the circumference of the platter as well as the belt itself. For the platter, distilled water with a microfiber cloth works well; for the belt, I ... 
Your last concert was to see who and when?
King Crimson @ The Egg in Albany NY a couple of nights ago. Rather amazing. 
"Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" on vinyl
Agreed. While I'm not disappointed in owning the vinyl copy of this, I'm not as impressed as I should be - I consider it to be one of the finer if not the finest of her catalog. This is an odd LP as well (a European release from Music on Vinyl), a... 
Turntable consultation
A lot of folks seem to be enjoying the relatively new Phoenix Engineering controller - it's a fair bargain as well especially considering it is considerably more advanced than the SDS. K&K Audio also has a new controller out that looks intrigu... 
Isolation disc for speaker spikes on wood floors.
Mcondo,I have nothing really more to say about them, aside from the fact that they work well under my speakers, having gone through many different materials, spikes, discs, etc (Herbie's decoupling gliders being one of them - I knew within a minut...