dougdeacon
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| cleaning vinyl. which cleaning fluid to use. Nyah, nyah! ;-) Yup, we sprung for it big time. Just couldn't resist after so many positive posts. Another factor was that a wood-plattered Teres seems to be extremely revealing of everything, including surface noise. This was reported at the Tere... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment There may be a standard cutting angle today, but there certainly wasn't back in the LP's glory days from 1955-70. Optimal arm height on same-thickness records from that era varies with the record label and date. It's clear to me that Decca/London,... | |
| Cartridge Angst-Help Twl is right. If you have the original arm it won't be a good match for a Shelter or other low compliance cartridges. That arm was designed for lighter weight, higher compliance cartridges (as were most arms of that era).There may be "some" $8K ri... | |
| analog newbie question/vinyl weight Rushton, wonderful post. I actually have some 104g (Telefunken) records that sound surprisingly good. Yesterday I played a new Cyprien Katsaris/Liszt LP and was worried the record would be too thin. Yet the piano tone was decent and the dynamics w... | |
| cleaning vinyl. which cleaning fluid to use. Another vote for the RRL fluids, plus the aerosol Premier cleaner. These give pretty good results on our Loricraft. RRL is available from Galen Carol @ $20/bottle. www.gcaudio.com. Premier is available from Acoustic Sounds and most other audio eta... | |
| VTA Q: Rega P25 with Clearaudio Aurum Beta S Agree with all the above. Adjusting VTA is essential, and the Expressimo collar is my favorite of the ones I've seen so far. I think jphii ordered one of the adjusters Colitas saw on ebay. Maybe he'll report.Check out this thread for a detailed di... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Audiofankj,I'd be perfectly willing to share my list of course, though it might be of marginal utility. All I've recorded for the VTA data point is the relative position of the mark on my Expressimo VTA collar, e. g., 7:30 or 9:45 or whatever. Unl... | |
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Hi JT,We are indeed shackled to analog! We set VTA for each record, or at least each change in record label and/or thickness. Even with a clutzy Rega style arm it only takes about 30 seconds. Fine tuning can usually be done with our VTF-on-the-fly... | |
| Opinions greatly appreciated No way could a Dual arm handle a Denon. It might fly right off the record on the first bass drum hit. ;-)Krazeeyk, The concensus looks like the OBH-8 route. There's no MC cartridge < $200 that will play with a Shure V15VxMR on a Dual, so if you... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Alex, You're right with all those ideas I think. That would make an arm very broadly compatible, especially if a couple different counterweights were also included. Then one could really tune in both vertical and lateral moving mass. Whether reson... | |
| Opinions greatly appreciated Not enough gain? (Don't know Creek). | |
| Opinions greatly appreciated Carl and Rene,The Denon 103 is a great suggestion, though even further over budget than the Shure, but I would be somewhat surprised if the TT in question has an arm that could handle it. I'm just guessing of course, as we all are. Krazeeyk are yo... | |
| Opinions greatly appreciated Sdcampbell,I quite agree about the Shure V15VxMR. It's a good cartridge. Considering the price it's a GREAT cartridge. Unfortunately Krazeeyk's dad doesn't have a V, he has a IV. Different can o' worms. Until Krazeeyk returns to further enlighten ... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Zaikesman, I remember posting somewhere (maybe on this thread but who could find it) that side weights threaded for in/out adjustability would be useful. I think the tungsten side weights on the Graham 2.2 are like that (4yanx?). My thought was ju... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation Kjl,Rather than contribute to this hailstorm of recommendations I'd like to ask a few questions:1. Could you list your system so we have the full picture? 'Dogcanskate' seemingly knows what phono stage you've got but it's a mystery to most of us.2... |