dougdeacon
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| Cartridge "demagging" We've heard significant improvements after playing the frequency sweeps on the Cardas test LP. They are meant to demag a system, and it seems unlikely to THIS liberal arts educated head that playing a frequency sweep could do any harm. Of course I... | |
| TWL's Hi Fi Mod & Doug's VTF tweak Joe,Good job as usual and thanks for the pix. No need for me to say more, this is simply a mandatory, no-brainer upgrade for anyone with a Rega/OL arm and a low-mid compliance cartridge. In all our time living with both mods (we discovered the VTF... | |
| Lencoclean - Supertonic Denis,Just a suggestion: before making the investment why not find someone with a modern RCM and have them clean and play a few of those abused LP's. That way you'd know for sure whether YOUR LP's are salvageable.Doug | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Lugnut, Isn't most free water cryogenically treated pretty much every day where you live? In CT our water sometimes goes for weeks between treatments, at least until 'The Day After Tomorrow'. | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Lugnut,Hi Patrick. It's good to hear from someone with considerable knowledge on this subject. I just copied this paragraph from the RRL site I linked above,"To achieve the proper base for RRL fluids, Weitzel designed and built a special copper di... | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Herman,I'm glad your tap water is so pure. Mine isn't. Washing LP's with my tap water, even filtered, leaves deposits that are both audible and visible. RRL fluids don't do that. You posited a general theory that, "Whatever detergents, etc. that a... | |
| Good Quality Distilled Water??? Ditto RRL.You can read about their water distillation and deionization process at http://www.musicalsurroundings.com/rrl.html | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts Thanks, Dickson. The bearing design of the Vector (as best I can picture it from written descriptions) sounds like a great piece of engineering. I've always thought it would mate well with a 901 or similar cartridges. Your experience seems to conf... | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts David,Yeah I heard about that. I also heard the rumor that it's removable because you can't actually play the arm with it attached. Kinda useless if true. Fortunately I know someone developing a VTA-on-the-fly adjuster. He can make it for a Vector... | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts Dickson, Very interesting post, thanks for sharing. Your experience is precisely what I would have expected. I've only used my 901 on a Twl-modded OL Silver. But A/B-ing with and without the mod showed us that an arm's lateral stability and dampin... | |
| Top phono cartrige to match jfrech's system ... Jfrech,If you're still looking, you might check out the review of the Shelter 90X at:http://www.10audio.comIt seems like it might be what you're after. The reviewer compared it favorably to both the RSP and the XV-1s.It's got enough output to addr... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Raul,I will not hijack Samir's thread to discuss what you think of me. Other than you and me, who would possibly care?Feel free to email me if you wish to discuss this further.Sincerely,Doug | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Raul,Samir asked for ideas about VTA/VTF. I provided mine and you agreed with me (on 5/17). All was well.Then you suggested choosing 3 or 4 predetermined arm height settings in order to relax and enjoy the music. I agreed that would be acceptable ... | |
| Cartridge Angst-Help Aha. I believe that arm has an effective mass of 12.7g, which makes it compatible with a wide array of current cartridges. It's still a bit too light for a Shelter though. Twl and others could recommend specific cartridges that would suit. I'm thi... | |
| cleaning vinyl. which cleaning fluid to use. That would be a different kind of Loricraft thread!Don't mention Visa cards, please. For the same $ we could have bought 71.8 more Shop Vacs and just lined them up. The damn records still wouldn't get dry, but we'd be deaf so who would know? <:... |