Vinyl foibles

@drmuso 

I'll use the Zerostat gun before playing records. Cleaning, on the other hand, takes about five minute on the shortest Degritter cycle. I work while I listen and want to move along with my work, so I won't clean with the Degritter, although I bruch the record. I always clean new records before playing. Again, when I was using Audionet's PAM 2 and only had the turntable grounded to it, rather than also grounding the PAM 2 to my Venom power supply, static became so bad the stylus was skipping tracks. Something about the Audionet, although it sounded brilliant, built up static. 

Another of the endless topics about vinyl, what kinds of interconnects do you folks use from your turtable to your phono preamp? I picked up a pair for a few hundred dollars many years ago. My VPI Fat Boy tone arm is wired with Nordost and I wonder if I'm defeating VPI's purpose by having inexpensive interconnects. Although, I never have blown the budget on interconnects and speaker cables. Mid-level Audioquest is my speed.

"I wonder if I'm defeating VPI's purpose by having inexpensive interconnects.'

If you're satisfied with SQ-No. But you won't hear the difference unless tried. 

You want to be audio neurotic- a used Nordost Frey/Heimdall can be found for "reasonable" cost. That's how I've been able to go  Nordost wall to speaker. Frey on my VPI.

I tried the Nordost Heimdall and had insurmountable poor-grounding hum.  The Heimdall did provide high-frequency response that was comparable to high-quality digital sources.  I borrowed a few cables from the Cable Co. and wound up keeping the moderate-cost DH Labs Silver Sonic.  It didn't match the high-frequency response of digital, but it was quiet.  So now I have the choice of digital sources with the extended high frequencies or analog with a more rolled-off and pleasant sound (and closer to what live music sounds like; microphones and mic techniques used in recording can exaggerate high frequencies beyond what live music sounds like).

@billstevenson 

"I feel a little bit foolish to be constantly repeating myself, but setting all the armchair theorizing aside it has been my experience that there is a solution for the static on records problem and it works quite effectively when used as directed.  Furutech Destat III." 

The Frutech Destat III is over $300. I guess if I were to spend that much money I'd want it to affect the sound of my system. It seems as though static doesn't. If I were going to spend $300, I'd probably invest in better interconnects from my phono to preamp.