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Oooooh, wooden case, pretty!
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Oooooh, wooden case, pretty!
TrainFan73
Frothy
You would expect any less from me?
hearditontheX
New Member
I am very excited to report that, thanks to my generous wife, I will soon be ordering the Darlington Labs MP-7 with upgraded jacks. It will be replacing a Schiit Mani which I will be giving to a coworker who is using the phono stage in an AV amplifier.
Angsty
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I have the MP-300 but have not used a Grado Opus 3. The MP-300 will stay in my permanent rotation, perhaps with the MP-500 stylus upgrade. It’s best MM cartridge I’ve heard (although they technically say it’s a MI).
Angsty
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I know Ortofon says to not use solvents on their styli, but I find that simple distilled water on a stylus brush like yours cleans the stylus as well as anything. It has not harmed my 2M Blue, but YMMV.
Soundsmith recommends lowering the stylus into Blu-Tack, but I have not tried it. Some use little squares of magic eraser. I’m wary of the ZeroDust after WallyTools’ reports of microscopic residue that can accumulate.
MikeH
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So I think I might have figured out my humming speakers in my office situation….changed the dimmer switch that’s in my kitchen for recessed lighting and when I turned the power off, all my office power went off. Seems that whoever wired the house decided to put the kitchen lighting on the same circuit as the office above it. I’d assume that this might have something to do with the noise coming through my office speakers. We may get a new circuit breaker box soonish and I’ll see if the electricians can put my office on a different circuit…
TrainFan73
Frothy
That should be easy enough, especially if you are doing the box any how, worst case scenario is they have to run a new line.
Should you not get the box/decide not to do a new circuit or just want to make the noise go away in the meantime, the dimmer switch itself may be the source of the noise.
SnowmaNick
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Have you tried a Magic Eraser? You just gently dip the needle into a dry one.
Phaneronic
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Yeah, I've just decided to move up the Nagaoka model line, probably to the 150 which can use the 200's stylus. I was looking around a bit since the 110's inner groove tracking has been bothering me, but it seems the 150 tracks fine and for my taste you just can't beat Nagaoka's tonality.
Phaneronic
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Go to the local music supply store and get Moongel blue sticky drum-damping pads. It's apparently basically the same as an ONZOW ZeroDust but is only like $10. I've been using it and it works beautifully. Magic Erasers do not work very well in my experience.
I have used Blu tac on all my styli with no issues. Works great and it's cheap.
Angsty
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ZeroDust controversy update:
The Onzow Zerodust Controversy Concludes Here (Updated August 29, 2023 With New Instruction)
the new instructions explain it well
trackingangle.com
In short, don’t use a ZeroDust more than 3 years old.
kvetcha
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Looks like they say it should be good for seven years if well cared for, so 3 years is probably a bare minimum.ZeroDust controversy update:
The Onzow Zerodust Controversy Concludes Here (Updated August 29, 2023 With New Instruction)
the new instructions explain it well
In short, don’t use a ZeroDust more than 3 years old.
I‘ve already moved onto Blue Tack, but I am glad there was some kind of resolution here.
Hemotep
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This is my method too.
TrainFan73
Frothy
This stuff? Do you just keep a ball of it by the table?
Blu-Tack Reusable Adhesive 75g https://a.co/d/hFcXCxK
Do you store it in anything? Someone show me what y’all are doing.
Blu-Tack Reusable Adhesive 75g https://a.co/d/hFcXCxK
Do you store it in anything? Someone show me what y’all are doing.
Hemotep
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kvetcha
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I have a little pad of Blu-Tack that I've flattened to the backside of a CD-R. I just set the whole thing on a platter and then dip the stylus like you would with a ZeroDust.
Hemotep
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TrainFan73
Frothy
I’m glad you told me what that was. I thought it was like a to go ramekin from Outback. I was gonna be like, “I’m not putting my stylus near anything that had ranch dressing in it.”