We are again on the subject of per hates and pet loves, plus children and pet free homes. Woof!
And for most cases on here….
Old aged crumblies.
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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@dogberry ”We May have wandered slightly off-topic”
Attention to detail, AI earlier, and wandering off-topic. Relying too much on AI makes you lazy, and if your brain gets lazy, you can wander about…. and forget a lot of details. |
How do you all clean your stylus? I use the Ortofon short-bristle brush. I used to clean the brush by rubbing it against my jeans, but I was told that is not a proper way. Jeans can be dirty. True, that. I purchased some microfiber clothes. Apparently that is a better way. I used to worry about the short-bristled brush breaking off the diamond stylus, but finally figured no way Ortofon would sell something that does that. It works well. Eevery now and then I brush the diamond and the underneath with a soft brush. I have found that sometimes dust collects on the underbody of the cartridge. Many years ago I purchased Grado's first wood-bodied Reference Cartridge. My housekeeper bent the cantilever and I called Grado Labs and talked to Joe Grado. He had me send in the cartridge and he fixed it for free. The good old days. When I talked to him on the phone, he said, "Don't put any of that gunk on your cartridge. It took me a long time to get it off." I was using Last stylus cleaner. Now, as Mr. Grado emphatically suggested, I simply brush my stylus. Just saying.... |
My granddaughters were over yesterday and gave me grief for using chatgbt. I am helping to support the large data centers burning too much electricity. They are in UC Santa Barbara. As a writer who talks about history, chatgbt is an excellent researcher. I know enough about the subject if chatgbt is just making stuff up, I challenge it, and it congratulates me on my great question. But it has helped me a lot as I set up my new system. It's a pretty damn good audiophile. I did not like what was happening to the treble on my Sonus Faber Olyimpica Nova 5s, which have a much more transparent treble than old Sonus Fabers. It said that with my new setup, expensive Pass Labs preamps, if an album is badly recorded and compressed, I'm going to hear it. If I ask about certain albums it takes me into the studio and tells me who the producers are. It's been a big help, but it had to learn my equipment, and it stores all of that in its memory. |
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