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).
Vinyl foibles
I'd like to make this a space to ask questions about vinyl problems you're having trouble solving. I have a lot of questions, but I think it's better if we ask one at a time, or else I think we could have long lists.
Here is my first question. I have a Degritter album washer. I think it works great. I wash all my albums once, but not before I play them again and again. Somehow, though, and this includes new albums no one else has ever touched, they pick up ticks and what sounds like scratches. I rewash the album and it sounds like new again. I only touch albums by their edges. How do inner bands become so dirty that sometimes a smudge can last a minute or more? I've been playing vinyl albums for more years than many of you have lived, and I have learned to be very careful with vinyl. Are there vinyl gremlins haunting my album shelves?
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"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. |
I remember the days in the 60s and 70s when record manufactures recommended cleaning a record with a barely damp cloth. EMI even recommended using their “EMI-tex” velvet (dry) cloth” to remove dust off the record. Hi-fi has come a long way now, and the idea mentioned earlier (in a post) of spaying distilled water onto corduroy, and applying it to the surface of an LP is nightmare stuff to me. I know the idea was a genuine believed honest comment, and l am not intending to victimise the poster on his opinion. Am l wrong ? Is applying water (other than using a professional record cleaner) to the record surface bad practice? |
@noromance ”Distilled water (is) in my SpinClean and my ultrasonic cleaner” I would expected that. Not an answer to what l asked. “If applying water (other than using a professional record cleaner) to a record surface bad practice? You made no reference to using distilled water in conjunction with applying it to the record surface using a corduroy material. Plus the usual every day practice of the original poster doing this each time a record is played. l don’t want to rub it in, but surly using a cloth with distilled water just moves most of the dirt and dust around. |
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