It arrived: my LP cleaning machine
Joey_V
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Finally, had to wait for the shipment to come into my dealer and then fedex overnight to me.
The build quality is much better than I thought. I thought the whole thing was plastic but it appears to be aluminum or some alloy. Everything on the shell is metal and has an icy cold feel coming from the cold outdoors. It is also heavy, about 25 pounds.
Now I just need to accumulate more records and a record cleaner console table or something.
Thx to everyone who PM’d me and helped me along the way - especially Willie @displayname !
Aaaand the aftermath....
The build quality is much better than I thought. I thought the whole thing was plastic but it appears to be aluminum or some alloy. Everything on the shell is metal and has an icy cold feel coming from the cold outdoors. It is also heavy, about 25 pounds.
Now I just need to accumulate more records and a record cleaner console table or something.
Thx to everyone who PM’d me and helped me along the way - especially Willie @displayname !
Aaaand the aftermath....
Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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Very nice.2 ChannelTurntable - VPI Classic 2/Ortofon 2M BlueAmplification - Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum II, Parks Audio Budgie PhonoSpeakers - GoldenEar Triton 17.2 Home TheaterDenon AVR-X3300W; Rotel RMB-1066; Klipsch RP-280F's, Klipsch RP-450C, Polk FXi3's, Polk RC60i; Dual SVS PB 2000's; BenQ HT2050; Elite Screens 120"Man CaveTurntable - Pro-Ject 2.9 Wood/Grado GoldAmplification - Dared SL2000a, McCormack DNA 0.5 DeluxeCD: Cambridge AudioSpeakers - Wharfedale Linton 85th Anniversary; LSiM 703; SDA 2A
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Nice enjoy cleaning your LP's in style.Home Theater
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Very nice.integrated w/DAC module Gryphon Diablo 300
server Wolf Alpha 3SX
phono pre Dynamic Sounds Associates Phono II
turntable/tonearms Origin Live Sovereign Mk3 dual arm, Origin Live Enterprise Mk4, Origin Live Illustrious Mk3c
cartridges Miyajima Madake, Ortofon Windfeld Ti, Ortofon
speakers Rockport Mira II
cables Synergistic Research Cables, Gryphon VPI XLR, Sablon 2020 USB
rack Adona Eris 6dw
ultrasonic cleaner Degritter -
Cool! Can't wait for you to try it and report back.
Wait a sec, three kids???Speakers: Polk Lsim, ATC SCM19 v2, NHT SuperzeroSpeaker Cables: DH Labs, Transparent, Wireworld, Canare, Monster: Beer budget, Bose ears -
Looks sharp! Hopefully it's just as easy to use as advertised. When you have a few hundred records, you'll be so glad you started cleaning early so you don't need to work through a backlog. Just make life with vinyl a little easier.Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
Digital: Cambridge CXC / Streaming > Cambridge CXN v2
MastersounD Dueventi > Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo or Arcam rHead > Hifiman HE4XX
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Nice, Joey. Think you'll do a before and after of anything? I've been curiously following along.
How long you think before you find a slice of bread in it?I disabled signatures. -
displayname wrote: »Looks sharp! Hopefully it's just as easy to use as advertised. When you have a few hundred records, you'll be so glad you started cleaning early so you don't need to work through a backlog. Just make life with vinyl a little easier.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting to open up over a dozen new records because I didn’t have a way to clean them. Atleast now I can clean all my records and place them in the mofi sleeves, ready to be played.Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
Nice, Joey. Think you'll do a before and after of anything? I've been curiously following along.
How long you think before you find a slice of bread in it?
I’ll tryMagico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
Happy for you! The kids like it too.
It really looks/seems like the right choice.
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I’m disappointed mine did not arrive with the special multicolored packing treats...integrated w/DAC module Gryphon Diablo 300
server Wolf Alpha 3SX
phono pre Dynamic Sounds Associates Phono II
turntable/tonearms Origin Live Sovereign Mk3 dual arm, Origin Live Enterprise Mk4, Origin Live Illustrious Mk3c
cartridges Miyajima Madake, Ortofon Windfeld Ti, Ortofon
speakers Rockport Mira II
cables Synergistic Research Cables, Gryphon VPI XLR, Sablon 2020 USB
rack Adona Eris 6dw
ultrasonic cleaner Degritter -
Interestingly, Stereophile (Fremer) reviews the Degritter in the January issue.Speakers: Polk Lsim, ATC SCM19 v2, NHT SuperzeroSpeaker Cables: DH Labs, Transparent, Wireworld, Canare, Monster: Beer budget, Bose ears
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Interestingly, Stereophile (Fremer) reviews the Degritter in the January issue.
I just saw that too, it arrived same day as my unit
Coincidence?Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
Spooky cool. MF does what I do though. He cleans the records before USCleaning them...Speakers: Polk Lsim, ATC SCM19 v2, NHT SuperzeroSpeaker Cables: DH Labs, Transparent, Wireworld, Canare, Monster: Beer budget, Bose ears
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Spooky cool. MF does what I do though. He cleans the records before USCleaning them...
Yeah
Now I’m looking at vacuum cleaners as a precleaner too
Maybe for my birthday
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Just demoed the degritter at Just Great Sound in Caldwell, NJ. Very cool machine! Much smaller than I thought it'd be. I brought the noisiest, dirtiest record in my stash. A copy of Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire from the $1 bin at a local record store. It went from unlistenable to acceptable after the first "heavy" cleaning cycle, and sounds dam good after a second bath.
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And the best part is it is fully automatedMagico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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@Joey_V Looking forward to how it goes when you try this thing out with some used record store vinyl.
Just read the review of this in the latest issue of Stereophile. The fact that it's completely automated/automatic is awesome. -
@Joey_V Looking forward to how it goes when you try this thing out with some used record store vinyl.
Just read the review of this in the latest issue of Stereophile. The fact that it's completely automated/automatic is awesome.
Thx mang
It is awesome
My wife finally voiced some concern when it came... “how much is this turntable stuff costing us exactly?”Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
"Enough. But not too much. I made a higher initial investment to avoid spending more money in the long run. I figured you would appreciate that."
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Good answer.
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At some point, one must have enough cognisance to know when to slow down. My wife rarely brings up (meaning argument) about budgets, but there have been a time or two where I have been put in my place....Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R
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I say you only live once, spend it if you got it, because you can't take it with you.
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I say you only live once, spend it if you got it, because you can't take it with you.
Haha
I’m still working on the second arm with the Miyajima Infinity... Atleast that doesn’t come in too big a boxMagico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
Why not buy more vinyl first before buying a second arm? Just a thought.
Oh also, I forgot that you have three kids. In that case saving money and leaving it for them would be prudent.
I always forget I'm in the minority in that I'm never having kids. -
Plans to get deep into the mono world? It should be interesting. I've still never felt a need for a mono cart. It just doesn't come up in my life. Approaching 800 albums in my collection. If I've got mono albums, they are played so infrequently that I've forgotten they are there.Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
Digital: Cambridge CXC / Streaming > Cambridge CXN v2
MastersounD Dueventi > Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo or Arcam rHead > Hifiman HE4XX
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At some point, one must have enough cognisance to know when to slow down. My wife rarely brings up (meaning argument) about budgets, but there have been a time or two where I have been put in my place....
If you get cutoff at the knees, you will be wearing pants!
Speakers: Polk Lsim, ATC SCM19 v2, NHT SuperzeroSpeaker Cables: DH Labs, Transparent, Wireworld, Canare, Monster: Beer budget, Bose ears -
hahahhahaMagico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
Why not buy more vinyl first before buying a second arm? Just a thought.
Oh also, I forgot that you have three kids. In that case saving money and leaving it for them would be prudent.
I always forget I'm in the minority in that I'm never having kids.
Little by little, the collection is getting bigger.
I need to peruse used record stores since I have the degritter now. That should save me some money.
But buying records, even at a pace of 3-4 per month, that's closing in on $150/mo. That's $1800 a year.
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displayname wrote: »
Plans to get deep into the mono world? It should be interesting. I've still never felt a need for a mono cart. It just doesn't come up in my life. Approaching 800 albums in my collection. If I've got mono albums, they are played so infrequently that I've forgotten they are there.
That's the early plan. There are a bunch of old albums that I want and I know a mono Miyajima will elevate the listening experience.Magico M2, JL113v2x2, EMM, ARC Ref 10 Line, ARC Ref 10 Phono, VPIx2, Lyra Etna, Airtight Opus1, Boulder, AQ Wel&Wild, SRA Scuttle Rack, BlueSound+LPS, Thorens 124DD+124SPU, Sennheiser, Metaxas R2R -
For the most part, I've buying used lately. Won't go for anything that is not media rated at least vg+ and try to stick to near mint. Jacket condition could be just vg but if media is minty I'll take a chance. The US cleaner can take care of just about anything except for audible scratches.....at;east so far.Yep, my name really is Bob.
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