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  1. Welcome to the forum Sanford. You are safe here within our growing Carver powered ML owners community. I have the Sources and even my mother who hates anything stereo absolutely loves the way they look in my Bauhaus livingroom. Modern art indeed that also happens to sound incredible. Your wife has good taste!
  2. Balok, you should read THE definitive dicument on record cleaning published by Cecil Watts back in the 60's. It actually recommends a solution of distilled or non-hard water with a few drops of photo wetting solution to clean records. I'd avoid alcohols as they can attack some of the plasitizers used in making records rendreing the vinyl more succeptible to damage. Alcohols also have the nasty tendancy of leaving a film or slurry of contaminants in the record grooves which gets ground into the grooves by the stylus. Rich should have a copy of this on file somewhere or I can e-mail you a copy.
  3. At last count, including those in storage at my moms, something over 3,600 LPs, 700 45s and about 120 CDs (so far)
  4. Radioeng, your posts always fascinate me and get me to thinking .... usually a lot! Just thinking in hypothetical terms here, but is it possible that some sorts of gross errors or differences are barely noticeable by the human hearing process but many tiny errors or differences are much more noticeable of bothersome to the human hearing process? We tend to concentrate or assume that gross or large errors MUST be much more noticeable or bothersome than certain tiny ones which would seem to be the wrong assumption to make. I've noticed that the low frequency noise rumble) made by direct drive TTs is far more bothersome to me than that of belt drive units, even when the DD TT measure better than the BD TT; almost like it makes me feel a bit queasy. The old "if the numbers say its better,then it must be better" syndrome. Maybe the whole vinyl VS CD thing could be compared to the tube versus SS debate. Any comments or ideas on this?
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    Skipping

    Skipping is usually a sign of too much friction in the tonearm pivots, insufficient trackign force or way too much anti-skating, but that shouldn't apply to your tonearm Steve. Let me look into this tonight after work; been a LOOOOOONG time since I have dealt with skipping that was not related to one of these conditions.
  6. Memorex makes those and they are available at Future Shop or The Source among others.
  7. One of my favorite bass tracks is on Rick Wakeman's Merlin the Magician
  8. OBI56

    Warped LPs

    Another successful reply from the Wizard Of Carver Audio. This threads a wrap then I guess.=d> =d> =d> -standing offer; a nickel to anybody that can stump, mr obi56 :-" -no doubt Maxxx, you are gonna go broke saying things like that! :dd :dd :dd
  9. OBI56

    Warped LPs

    Balok, there are several great record flattening machines that operate on the very same principle. The problem with using glass in the sun is that you have no control over the tempreature that it can reach and only 1 side of the record gets heated at a time resulting in a half assed job most of the time. Ovens are also finicky and require a lot of guesswork to get good results. The main problem really lies in the fact that the centre portion is thicker than the groved area due to the 2 labels so you never get a truly flat surface and often you will even get tons of timy pipples instead of a few slight warps. Some of the machines actually have a small recess for the record label on each side so they give much better results. In any case your records MUST be ABSOLUTELY be clean as a whistle before you attempt any flattening or the crud will bake into the grooves permanently.
  10. Quit bitchin Rich, I'm all alone up in my neck of the woods and will probably stay that way indefinitely!
  11. OBI56

    CarverFest '08 CD

    I'm in Gary, please tell me how much so I can wire you the funds.
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