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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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kennyc
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Chatgbt makes me smile. I talk about… 

Could be the beginning of a romance 😉

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audio-b-dog OP
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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.

lewm
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It stores all of what anybody ever wrote about any subject, then homogenizes it often regardless of the quality of the source material then coughs up a collective response when prompted. The user must be sophisticated enough to find a truth somewhere in the prose.

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@audio-b-dog The PAVCR has made available excellent guidance on methodology for static removal and dust collection.

I have extended this to be used for my cleaning ancillaries, especially the ones with bristles /fibres as the cleaning aid.

I use the Method shown on the PAVCR along with a comb used by dog groomers made from the same material. There is following a cleaning, no dust particulate  remaining visible. The already proven very successful Manual Cleaning Method for Vinyl. Is now with a maintenance of the condition achieved, where a pre-use cleaning method, using non contaminated ancillaries, is keeping the Vinyl remaining in the finest of condition.

I still coming to terms with what I think is a little strange, where I have made such time for all things vinyl. I thoroughly enjoy the learning, the processes and on many occasions the outcomes, but am quick to overlook the medium and put on a CD.       

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@lewn

I am writing about Patriarchy. It is a huge subject with all sorts of opinionated writing. There is no terra firma. I am writing fiction so I do not need to worry about the many points-of-view. Chatgbt gives me an historical overview from my point-of-view, which is what I want. I know that if I fed it different questions with different wording, it would come back with very different answers. In other words, it works for me. I am not looking for the "truth" because I don't think it exists with the level of knowledge we have about patriarchy and its origins.

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