From my empirical experience, some records develop static as they play and others don't. I live in the San Fernando Valley which is basically a desert. Some days are more conducive to static than others. I've purchased a static brush, a static gun, non-static sleeves. And to tell you the truth, all I want to do is go back to college and throw my records around the floor until I have to pick them up to have a path to the bathroom, (-: Translation, I'm kind of done trying to fight static. When I was testing out the Audiodnet Phono Preamp and the record kept skipping because of static discharge, that was a five-alarm fire. But I didn't buy the Aduionet and I have no static skipping. So, with my few modest tools, I think I'll live at peace with nature.
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 am writing a book on an esoteric subject. I have done a lot of reading on my own, but I otten call on chatgbt for research. Can it be trusted? Not always. Although it has helped me a lot with setting up my new Pass Labs preamp. It made a few mistakes, but if I called an audiophile friend over to help me, he might also make mistakes. I trust but verify. And chatgbt and AI in general are only getting better. Here is one research question I asked chatgbt that would have taken me forever to research on my own: has the body mass relationship between males and females remained the same throughout human history, going back to the Paleolithic. It knew in a flash. And as I read Archaelogists they verify what it said. |
@audio-b-dog How will we know AI didn't write it? Etc.
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