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For fathers day my daughter bought me a 200gm remaster of Rush 2112. My wife bought a 45rpm double of Ed Sheeran. I thanked them and listened later that night. Both were just excellent, a pleasure to listen to, surprised me. I have a decent tubed CDP that lets good recordings really shine as well. I goosebump just thinking of some of them. I think my preference isn't one type or the other, rather well done productions of either. When its good its great, when its bad....it sucks.

Muskrat love, Capt and Tenile......barf

Sweet......Congrats!

Trav......if your hands are shakey I've found that a couple of rum and coke settles them down. If that doesnt work repeat....... Has anybody ever tried http://www.percyaudio.com/ Just curious.....

Welcome Raven, from Canada west......."Low bow" Hope you get your second system wish....do you have sisters?....

We have a flea market with a guy that stocks over 25K albums. We also have an antique shop that stocks about the same. These are good places to check out.

Arrived today! Have sent Wayne, Rod and Mike their copy this afternoon. Have a party tonite will take a listen tomorrow, They look great........ THANKS!!!!

Once storage of music became "nothing you could touch" It didnt matter what type of "ancient technology" you kept, if you decided to keep something tangible. For many people.....like me....I decided to keep the cool looking one. Kinda like keeping that 70s muscle car....just for fun.

I'll keep checking daily.

Was all excited today, received a " you have a package" card in the mail box. Drove to town, turned out to be presents from the inlaws...... I wonder if they lost the dang things?.......

My sincerest apologies to our Canadian brothers. Apparently I was woefully ignorant of the time frame involved in crossing the boarder... Nope, no worries.... Its hit and miss at the best of times with the post office(s) This time of year is probably the busiest.... Remember, "Good things come to those that wait" My wife is checking the mailbox daily......

Must be taking the slow train.......still no show....

Hoping for Monday up here.....

They look great.... Be a while for the international mailman, hope not too long.

I agree, its the spirit of giving something you can touch away.... It came from distant lands, I waited for it to arrive, ramble on, sing my song sort of thing... I think it would be in the spirit to not release it on the interweb till after X-mass. My 2 cents.

The engineering that went into cutting a piece of plastic that can reproduce sound....amazing.

WOW

Thanks for the compliments gents. Ok, on to how well it works. It works VERY well. One small modification, actually an addition. The factory model I saw turns the record by 2 rotating scrub brushes under the fluids surface. I've added a very SOFT brush to each album, shaped like a "U" It stays on its own by friction, and because there is only about 3/8" clearance at the end of the album to the tank it rides the album just under the surface of the fluid. I've washed 9 very dirty albums, most from goodwill, and about the same from my "good" collection. I've used up my distilled water, including my second stash I had at home. So about 8 litres total. I set the water temp to 110F.....one drawback is it takes about an hour to heat up a tank. I then set for 25mins.....so about 25 rotations. Now that I know that it works I'll make a filtration system to save on fluid. This is a very cool unit, if you have a bunch of albums, this would be an asset for sure.

So off I go to Home Depot today. Bought a 3' piece of 1-1/2 by 1-1/2 aluminium atewangle, a 1/4" brass rod, and a piano hinge. Bought 4$ worth of brass electrical fittings as well. On the way home I stopped at a pharmacy and picked up some Isopropanol 99% and 8 litres of distilled water. From there off to Canadian tire and picked up some soft foam hockey pucks, using them for spacers. From there a stop at a photo shop and picked up some Kodak photo-flo. Then came home and started to build my new ultrasonic record cleaner. Took about 2 hrs and there it stood. I was going to make it nice and fancy, but then I gave my head a shake....its a album cleaner, not a piece of front end gear. Besides.....I really should be spending my DIY time on my SP-15 project. It works well, spins smoothly and holds the albums without slipping, the hockey pucks work well. I use a harder blue one to hold the spindle while I load the albums up.....3 at a time. I havnt had time to give it a test with the fluid and a cleaning cycle...maybe later tonite. I'll let you guys know how it works cleaning albums then. Total Cost: Ultrasonic unit shipped to my post office..........$397.00 Aluminium Angle................................................$22.00 Brass rod............................................................$13.00 Hockey pucks.....................................................$10.00 Rotisserie...........................................................$17.00 Misc parts............................................................$4.00 Photo-flo ...........................................................$10.00 Iso......................................................................$12.00 Distilled water.....................................................$6.00 TOTAL...............................................................$491.00 If it works thats a savings of close to $4000.00......lets see......fingers crossed.

Guess what was waiting for me at the post office yesterday.

My Father in law just ordered this. A pile of things going on in this "ULTRA ALBUM"

Went shopping today at Princess auto.....a "big sells everything" store up here. Was looking for motors to power the spindle. All I could find were 12v DC motors, and they all had RPM way to high anyway......no good to me. I'm looking for something in about 1RPM Wondered up and down the isles....then I spotted it... it even came with a light.... Its almost exactly like this picture, and get this.....1RPM. Was on 1/2 price sale for $17 If it can rotate a big ole roast.....it'll rotate 4 or five albums..... As a bonus I plugged it in and in runs almost silent......sweet.

Yep, thats the one that was used at the hi-fi shop I visited......its the one that got me interested in the ultrasonics. It worked well, but I'd like to see it clean up a good-will album.....some of those are nasty. If I remember correctly they had it selling for $4400 CAD..... Little outta this po' boys price range.

Not sure yet Steve. Some have a cleaning system.....sort of like a fish tank water cleaner. Some use a solution that makes the water bead off, and they basically air dry or use a muffin fan. The gunk should be removed so there shouldnt be anything to suck up if the water in the tank is filtered. Some have rotations of 1RPM, some 6 RPM and others are slower than 1RPM. I wasnt expecting the unit to ship so fast...thought I had 6 weeks to research. I'm going to have to do some reading. I like this DIY effort....but think I can do a bit better.