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| Is that record dead yet? I just got the Disc Dr. in the mail along with a carbon fiber brush. These records aren't as dead as I thought. On that old DG Prestige I was surprized at how much gloss came back after a good cleaning and how reduced the pop and ticks were. On th... | |
| How Do You Organize Your Music? Jazz CDs are alphabetical, pop/rock and clasical are localized in specific drawers, but thats it. This of course drives my wife insane because she knows neither the names of the artists or what genre they are in so she can find nothing. Vinyl has ... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? I'm under forty (barely)I was about a senior in high-school (1987) when CDs started to became widespread. Up until then all we had was vinyl too. In fact, I dj'd on our college radio station and they didn't get cd players installed until 1990. You... | |
| Turntable or vinylology 101 for newbies. Pedrillo, I hate to ask, but Have you really built a three-hundred pound TT with a platter mass loaded with 28 lbs of shot? If so, I doubt anyone here would be able to offer you any advice about an appropriate tonearm. You're using a one-of piece ... | |
| Strange phenomona this hobby. I think we're all a little self-delusional in this hobby. We have people who swear they are re-creating the ambiance of Carnegie hall in a 10x13 room with a 7 ft ceiling. Personally I like to pretend that Coleman Hawkins is blowing right there bet... | |
| Is that record dead yet? I have also been thinking about building an rcm, but I'm wondering if it won't be as expensive an just buying one. | |
| Is that record dead yet? I have heard good things about the Disc Dr. system. An RCM is not in the cards for while so that might be a good alternative for the time being. Currently I'm using a very fine automotive dust cloth for lint,dog hair, etc., especially for new reco... | |
| How did you get into vinyl? I went to a couple of local used record stores with a buddy and saw what was available CHEAP and thought it would be fun and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg to get started. I was correct on both counts. Of course as I look for better vinyl the 'che... | |
| Is that record dead yet? Well, I'm using a Shure M97xe that only cost about $50, so replacement wouldn't break the bank. Even so, I haven't encountered a scratch on either of these two discs that actually registers anything violent sounding, and no skips. The resiliancy o... | |
| Marian McPhartland - A National Treasure Being English, whose national treasure is she? She gets huge points for being alowed to participate in the photo, "A great Day in Harlem." I think she's running out of great jazz performers to interview and play with on her show though. About a ye... | |
| Who is your favorite blues guitarist Eric Clapton is to the Blues what Pat Boone was to Little Richard. Shallow homogonized fluff. | |
| Your First Concert was..... Van Halen ont he 1984 tour when DLR was still in the band at Madison Square Garden. We scored 11th row center on the floor. I think I was fifteen at the time and it still ranks as the most fun I ever had at a concert. | |
| DIY Record Cleaner Project - Need ideas Well, in any event, I wasn't planing on using suction cups. I think rubber washers holding the record on a bolt would be more stable. | |
| DIY Record Cleaner Project - Need ideas On the question of how much solution, I suspect that I'm envisioning using more than most folks are used to using on platter machines. I'm thinking of putting the fluid in a trough and running the record through it with some sort of brush mechanis... | |
| DIY Record Cleaner Project - Need ideas I do want to vacuum them, but I'm looking for something smaller than a shop-vac in the kitchen to do it with. |