Pop and crackle, new TT

[Deleted User]

I used to do this w/ cassettes for friends back in the day.
My Who and Stones comps were legendary

Keiko wrote: »

boston1450 wrote: »

Keiko wrote: »

rednedtugent wrote: »

the vinyl path you take can only lead to disappointment and heartache

I highly beg to differ. Vinyl and SACD are my go to choices for critical listening. And I will put up my vinyl rips to any factory redbook CD any day for SQ.

I listen to those Rush cd's you burned & sent to me. Simply amazing

Thanks Randy. Glad you're enjoying them. IIRC, I ripped those with the Denon, DL160. I recently ripped some up for Tophatjohnny, and he was pretty stoked. I've refined it even more and for me, it's a labor of love.

erniejade

Someone gave me some lp's that were played on a turntable all in one system that had a ceramic cart. Even though the lp looked good and cleaned, they were still all static sounding. The weight and how the ceramic cart playrs them basically kills the grooves.

Erik Tracy

C'mon guys -the OP asked for help with his setup.

Now it's a crap contest on digital vs vinyl.

pumpkinman

I'm assuming Dskip That your posts are at me. That's not at all what I was I was trying to get across.

So long Polk Forum

[Deleted User]

"I'm not understanding why my comments are so controversial and offending?"

They aren't. There are some really crappy CDs. (Queen/ Rush come to mind)
Not a reason to go back to vinyl though. You are young I bet, once you start
noticing the sibilance in CDs, you won't be able to listen to them anymore.

[Deleted User]

I would trade all of my Digital stuff for PMan's psych vinyl collection alone.

voltz

{My only point is that when someone looks into vinyl nowadays, its like buying a Corvette. You see the fun and shiny car, but you don't see the greater than normal maintenance that comes with it. Vinyl is a huge commitment}

Very true...it can be a hassle to find clean records (Even new ones can have lots of noise burn into them) cleaning older ones adds up... but once you go down this road its hard to stop... I still don't know how Thomas did it.

And phono amp's are like a open mic...I found you cannot skimp on cables here as a good phono cable between TT & Phono amp makes a huge difference...

it can be fun and a hassle at the same time.

afterburnt

Lord I hope I don't like the cartridge too much that voltz has so kindly donated to my cause. Help me if I get too hooked on the vinyl! Pretty depressing that I am dead in the water for the moment. I picked out albums to play this evening but I dont want to do harm to my records with a tweaked stylus.

SCompRacer

afterburnt wrote: »

What is a good way to reduce some of the static, I want to hook up the usb and digitize some of my stuff. Is there a inexpensive easy way to reduce some of the noise?

After reducing system noise to a minimum (grounding, moving cables around, etc), what software you going to use to record? Audacity is free and has built in noise reduction. Of course too much reduction can have a negative effect on the recording.

afterburnt

I intend to use Audacity when I am back in business. I am dead in the water for now though.

afterburnt

Keiko how do you employ the steam cleaner?

afterburnt

Wow where do you find time to listen?

afterburnt

Are you sure my spin clean aint doin it?

voltz

forking over $600 for a RCM like my VPI 16.5 was very hard to do....but now I am so glad I did buy one as it makes cleaning a breeze and I know it is done right

and one can use a steam cleaner with it also but I don't think I would get it as wet as the man in that video did..maybe us it in front of the vacuum arm so can vacuum it off at same time.

afterburnt

voltz wrote: »

forking over $600 for a RCM like my VPI 16.5 was very hard to do....but now I am so glad I did buy one as it makes cleaning a breeze and I know it is done right

and one can use a steam cleaner with it also but I don't think I would get it as wet as the man in that video did..maybe us it in front of the vacuum arm so can vacuum it off at same time.

I want one of those compared to the cheaper ones but I can get my second PB 2000 for about that. It will have to wait. Spin Clean and lots of distilled water for now. What do you think about a drop of Dawn dishwashing liquid, the spin clean fluid don't seem to be all that?

mhardy6647

The audioquest brush is good for a final dust-off just before playing. I keep one right next to the tt.

As an old guy... I still use a Discwasher for wet (EDIT: i.e., fluid-dampened brush, per the original "instructions" from DW) cleaning before (most) playing of (most) records :-P

I have a set of the Disc Doctor (now, I think, a Mobile Fidelity product) record brushes & use their fluid for more serious cleaning.

No "RCM" here, yet -- partly due to cost, but mostly due to the lack of a place to put one! :-P

EDIT: PS - a reasonable facsimile of Discwasher D3 fluid, IMO, may be prepared using high quality (I like "HPLC grade", 18 megOhm-cm) distilled/deionized water (RODI water is good if one has access to such), a little (10% or so) methanol, ethanol (non-denatured, again, if one has access to such) or isopropanol (not "rubbing alcohol" which often has some other stuff in it) and a drop (or so) of Triton TX-100 as a wetting agent. TX-100 is (still) available in diluted form as Kodak PhotoFlo.

pumpkinman

mhardy6647

How do you like the MF brush?? I thought about one but never got around to buying.

P-man

mhardy6647

It is -- as we said in my past, pro life -- "fit for purpose".