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  1. DaveAl

    How to clean stylus brush?

    canned air here, also.
  2. DaveAl

    When does common sense kicks in the cost on audio equipment

    For me it's really simple. I don't buy anything I can't afford. I NEVER buy anything on credit. I buy what sounds good to me. I don't know how much more sensible I could be about equipment purchases. :)
  3. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    LOL. you read my mind. Glad you are enjoying your new toy.
  4. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    I meant Empire speakers. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Empire-Model-9000-Speakers-/202492291422
  5. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    Martin Logans or else?
  6. DaveAl

    Pet peeve – crap RCA’s

    I've been more concerned about the TINY Camac connectors that have to be used with my ML-9. If those broke I don't know what I'd do. I can't fix them. They are about impossible to get and they are stupid-expensive. I'd rather have RCA than Camacs.
  7. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    Who put the plants on top of your speakers? You or the wife? LOL! I just today removed a small fake flower arrangement that my wife placed on top of one of my ADS's.
  8. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    If, like me, you put your ADS810's on top of subwoofers, you are indeed saving space.
  9. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    That end table reminds me of https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Empire-Model-9000-Speakers-/202492291422 speakers! Remember them? IIRC they had a marble top. EDIT: silly me mis-spoke when I wrote "Rectilinear". I meant Empire. I thought of it the other night, laying in bed. LOL!
  10. DaveAl

    Bookshelf Speakers - subwoofer a necessity?

    I have 2 12" powered woofers sitting under my ADS 810's. The woofers seriously improve the enjoyment of movie entertainment. They also add to the realism of music reproduction. I'm lucky to live in a detached dwelling so I don't have to worry about neighbors hearing my system when cranked up...
  11. DaveAl

    Do you plastic-wrap your excess gear?

    No. I place my extra items on shelves in stereo cabinets that are in other parts of the house, mostly cabinets that are sitting in closets. I don't worry about humidity in northern Calif. RH in our home is between the mid 30's and mid 40's year around. (I also have HVAC).
  12. DaveAl

    Almost a Car Model Game

    Honda Concordance
  13. DaveAl

    Record Cleaning: Developing the Best Possible Methods

    correction for a previous post--if i shake my 1/2 empty bottle of solution it DOES foam up. I had mis-remembered what happens when I shake it. apologies.
  14. DaveAl

    Record Cleaning: Developing the Best Possible Methods

    I can shake the heck out of my partially filled bottled of cleaning solution which contains Triton, distilled water, and alcohol and it doesn't suds up. Anyone getting a lot of suds must be using a much stronger concentration of Triton. If so, you are using too much. It takes me 2 vacuuming...
  15. DaveAl

    What Record Are You Hearing Now?

    Green Flower Street - Fagen
  16. DaveAl

    Record Cleaning: Developing the Best Possible Methods

    The method I use is 1) apply cleaning solution to the record (from a spray bottle) and make several revolutions with a goat hair brush, 2) vacuum, 3) apply distilled water and vacuum (record appearance is that of partial surfactant), 4) apply a second application of distilled water and this time...
  17. DaveAl

    Record Cleaning: Developing the Best Possible Methods

    Of COURSE it will bead up! Add some Triton X. DON'T use dish detergent. I cringe every time I read about someone "swearing" by the use of it.
  18. DaveAl

    SiriusXM to pay $3.5 billion for Pandora

    I use Pandora nearly every day and recently Toyota announced they are dropping Pandora in their vehicles in the coming months. I'm pissed. I know that I can BT Pandora from my phone but that's not the same as having it accessible from Entune.
  19. DaveAl

    What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

    2 actors on Bates Motel are British but in the show you can't really notice. They must have good speech coaches.
  20. DaveAl

    What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

    What I remember about my niece and other youngsters back in the 80's was "I'm like...". they added those 2 words to everything they said. A variation on that was 3 words: "I'm like all..."
  21. DaveAl

    What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

    oh, and "loose" when they meant "lose". that is a word that I would think English speaking people would know. But, noooooo.
  22. DaveAl

    What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

    I see what you did there..
  23. DaveAl

    What is YOUR pet peeve? Let's have a laugh.

    The over usage of "actually".
  24. DaveAl

    I'm So Depressed. Hearing Is Going.

    When I was in 'Nam I wore two sets of ear protectors when working ARM/DEARM at the ends of the runway. The vinyl ones that u stick in your ear, along with the big cans they gave us. Standing RIGHT IN FRONT of the intake of an A-37 makes for the loudest, highest pitched sound I've ever heard...
  25. DaveAl

    I'm So Depressed. Hearing Is Going.

    Imagine being told that you HAVE to have an operation that has a >75% chance that it will kill your hearing on one side. I faced that awful reality in 1995 (I've been quite the "golden eared" audiophile since my hearing cleared up about a year after getting out of 'Nam). When I came out of...
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