OBI56

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!

Does anyone have advice on a homemade record cleaning solution. I have heard the following is good;

 

1) 75 % distilled water,

2) 25 % isopropyl alcohol ( i assume 99%)

3) a couple drops of dish soap.

 

I will be using the solution with my Disco Antistat Record Cleaning gizmo. This actually works pretty well. Thanks.

 

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.

Birdy, I'm running 901's as well off a M1.5t. I don't suppose you have a Sonic Hologram pre-amp too? If so I'm curious to find out your experience of it and the direct/reflecting world of the 901's? I'm still renovating my house and so can't optimise the speakers ... yet.

You might be interested to note that I have recently plugged my crappy acoustimass 5's into the other pre-amp output to run a 901/AM5 combo, just out of curiosity, you know. Wow is all I can say... try it!

Samiam, bad idea to try and combine WH and the Bose Durect/Reflecting technologies unless you like freakishly exagerated sound; you might find it exciting for the first few minutes but will probably get tired of the effect very quickly. SH was designed to be used with conventional, direct radiating speakers. How do I know? I've heard it tried a few times, both 25 years ago and recently with the same results. That is unless you like the sound of 20 foot wide guitars that half way around your head or drummers playing in all 4 corners of the room at the same time.

At last count, including those in storage at my moms, something over 3,600 LPs, 700 45s and about 120 CDs (so far)

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?

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.

Memorex makes those and they are available at Future Shop or The Source among others.

One of my favorite bass tracks is on Rick Wakeman's Merlin the Magician

 

 

Thanks for the interesting info OBI56. I don't think that i could justify buying a machine to flatten the few warped records i have but i now understand some of the limits of trying half-assed techniques. Thanks.

 

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

From time to time, I score a fantastic used LP only to find that when i spin it, it is badly warped.

 

I have read about a few techniques to flatten a warped record. example: place record between two sheets of glass and put in oven at low heat , or place the record between two pieces of glass and place in the sun until it flattens and then slowly cool. Has anyone ever successfully flattened a warped LP and if so, how did you do it.

 

Thanks

 

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.

Thanks for the help' date=' OBI, TNRabbit and RichP. i was hoping to be able to attach the actual document right into the post, but i couldn't make it small enough in size (kb) and still be large enough to read. My incompetence with computers has no bounds.'](*,)

Balok, I was referring to images/pictures, not text documents. For items that large, you really should be using a service like PhotoBucket to store the images or send a PDF copy of the document to RichP so he can attach it to a post.

Quit bitchin Rich, I'm all alone up in my neck of the woods and will probably stay that way indefinitely!

I'm on that map ... somewhere .....

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