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| Cassette deck cleaning Isopropyl alcohol from your pharmacist or on-line retailer (or from tax avoiders like Amazon if you are desperate) for the tape heads and capstan i.e. metal parts, only.If you are serious about the long term health of a deck use a proprietary rubb... | |
| Interesting Article :) :) ...or not...the system has rationalised the link and given a full list!From the list shown scroll down to the "Consequences Album" which will hyper-link you to the correct page.(might even be quicker to google Wiki yourself!)If you read some... | |
| Interesting Article Ghosthouse, you must have blinked. It's all explained here... ;^)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_(Godley_%26_Creme_album)Cheers, | |
| Interesting Article Speaking of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore... ;^)If you can get hold of a rare curiosity of an album called "Consequences" (the full 3-LP set) you'll witness a work of genius. Peter Cook does all the voices in the drama with the exception of the re... | |
| Interesting Article Apologies, it was a light-hearted suggestion. ;^)I had visions of Meridian reviving Philips original marketing strategy of getting the punters to focus on noise rather than the music.I think the analogue enthusiasts that are left are far too sophi... | |
| Interesting Article As a matter of fact, 5 or 6 months ago, a close friend told me he had already been treated, purely by chance, to an early demo and was very impressed.He claimed he hadn't heard anything this good since analogue...I'm a tiny bit sceptical. With Mer... | |
| Interesting Article Dear Dweller,I can probably save you the wait by way of example...At the invitation of a friend, a while back, I bought a "True_HD" BD copy of the Rolling Stones "Grrr" (60 track compilation of their greatest hits) and for fun I compared it with a... | |
| Interesting Article BTW Dweller, you mentioned problems with new vinyl specifically and that people don't know how to make LPs anymore? I should warn you that certain LPs that have expressed/exuded a surfeit of MRA will sound exactly the way that you described. It ma... | |
| Interesting Article Czarivey is right. The implication is that something is not right with your setup. True we do have filters but these only operate within reason. I often check the noise levels during silent passages on popular & classical discs listening for n... | |
| How important is a good rack? LOL! (Did Symposium choose the name before ISIS chose theirs? ;^)There are even worse names in the audio industry though, Schiit for example?For their sake you always hoped it wasn't... :) | |
| How important is a good rack? Racks are a clear case of "horses-for-courses". Some manufacturers e.g. Grand Prix Audio, will insist on knowing what the various loads on the rack will be so that they can customise it by tuning it.Praiseworthy though this approach may be it only... | |
| How important is a good rack? Yes, I take your point but the context of this discussion is turntable related. Not many people wish to get down on all fours to load the next LP. ;^)By way of example, my rack was custom built by the manufacturer (I was the first customer to ask ... | |
| How important is a good rack? The Audio Beat's review of "The Scuttle" rack states that Silent Running decided it was "time to make an affordable rack" so they pitched the basic model at $6600 upwards.Some vendors have a skewed understanding of the word "affordable".... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Hi Alec,Glad you are winning :) The SME is a great tonearm.If you are ever feeling reckless and feel like like using the other arm pillar you should try the Phantom ;^)All the best, | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Lew...and this assumes that the feet of an outboard arm pod are even non-flexible and the mounting surface is stable - both dimensionally and mechanically in phase(!) ;^) |