I've ordered the Knosti record cleaner, it's a manual jobbie but all the reviews and YouTube vids I've watched are all positive, and for £45 (which includes more liquid), is a no brainer, I just wondered if I could wipe them with the liquid neat in the meantime as there's no instructions for its usage.
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I've ordered the Knosti record cleaner, it's a manual jobbie but all the reviews and YouTube vids I've watched are all positive, and for £45 (which includes more liquid), is a no brainer, I just wondered if I could wipe them with the liquid neat in the meantime as there's no instructions for its usage.
bigslice
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Im nearly moved in to my hoose just trying to find all my stuff. But i got he stands for my q speakers and wit a difference. Once ive got them up and running will show tell. I just need to suss how to stream music from my phone to speakers ( actually i think ive asked this before lol years ago).
Altgough i can defo recommend ultimate ears speakers wireless things no bad sound and ive 5 kicking about the house. Ma new neighbours are going to love me???
Altgough i can defo recommend ultimate ears speakers wireless things no bad sound and ive 5 kicking about the house. Ma new neighbours are going to love me???
cliveb
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The picture you posted shows you have 1 litre of the stuff. That will last you forever!
Note: if you do happen to have any shellac 78s, whatever you do don't get alcohol anywhere near them. Alcohol is a solvent for shellac.
I couldn't get the actual record cleaner without the liquid, there was the odd main body only, but once you added the clamps and brushes you might as well buy the whole kit and have another bottle of liquid, it'll keep.
jim8flog
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Beezerk
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Here's my vintage Pioneer PL-112D, picked it up cheaply as I mentioned, it has a Denon DL-110 stylus fitted which was a massive bonus and saved me having to buy a new one.
Sounds superb and will sound even better once I get a proper decent amp and speakers ?
Sounds superb and will sound even better once I get a proper decent amp and speakers ?
In the context of the OP
Don’t want to go mad,
seems to have gone out of the window
I’m a little shy of £600 for the whole caboodle, which I think for what I’ve got, how it looks, and how it sounds, even prior to cleaning properly, is pretty good ?
Going to be looking at and buying new or quality secondhand vinyl records again now ?
GreiginFife
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Its a cracking wee set up you got, I quite fancy the jukebox e for the spare room with a little set of Dali bookshelf speakers I have in there.
Discogs is a great source of 2nd hand (and new) vinyl.
cliveb
Head Pro
In the context of the OP
Don’t want to go mad,
seems to have gone out of the window
If people on here think 600 quid for a vinyl playback system is "going mad", they are in for a shock. £600 won't go even half-way towards buying a top end pickup cartridge. Vinyl has become a status symbol these days. It's all about boasting "see how much I spent on my HiFi".
Don't get me wrong, I think that despite the fact that in an objective sense vinyl performance is a complete dog's dinner, it can sound bloody marvellous. The fact that such a flawed technology can sound so good is probably an indication that human hearing is fairly limited and easily satisfied.
Regrettably, now that vinyl is back in fashion, the actual records cost a lot of money. Sure, you can buy beat up LPs that nobody wants from charity shops for next to nothing, but anything worth having will cost you WAY more than getting it on CD. The only vinyl worth buying is vintage stuff where the CD so-called "remaster" has been butchered with hypercompression. And you ain't gonna get it cheap.
Swinglowandslow
Well-known member
jim8flog said:
In the context of the OP
Don’t want to go mad,
seems to have gone out of the window
Fish said:
I’m a little shy of £600 for the whole caboodle, which I think for what I’ve got, how it looks, and how it sounds, even prior to cleaning properly, is pretty good ?
If people on here think 600 quid for a vinyl playback system is "going mad", they are in for a shock. £600 won't go even half-way towards buying a top end pickup cartridge. Vinyl has become a status symbol these days. It's all about boasting "see how much I spent on my HiFi".
Always was. As I've posted, the cost now for me to get the old stuff I had would be thousands. It can be addictively expensive and with a big dollop of diminishing returns.
In any event I hope you enjoy your new vinyl experience
In the context of the OP
Don’t want to go mad,
seems to have gone out of the window
Fish said:
I’m a little shy of £600 for the whole caboodle, which I think for what I’ve got, how it looks, and how it sounds, even prior to cleaning properly, is pretty good ?
If people on here think 600 quid for a vinyl playback system is "going mad", they are in for a shock. £600 won't go even half-way towards buying a top end pickup cartridge. Vinyl has become a status symbol these days. It's all about boasting "see how much I spent on my HiFi".
Always was. As I've posted, the cost now for me to get the old stuff I had would be thousands. It can be addictively expensive and with a big dollop of diminishing returns.
In any event I hope you enjoy your new vinyl experience
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
This was my last purchase - £25 off Face Book Market Place day before lockdown having just sold my Technics deck (circa 1980) for £120 on ebay.
Bought to digitise all the cassettes and just a few albums not digitised and in case I spot something in a charity shop. Still got my NAD amp and my HiFi speakers for CDs in another room though.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
I spotted the Marantz CD player at the bottom of the pile. I bought my CD-52 after it was voted CD player of the year in one of the Hi Fi mags back in the early 90s great bit of kit it would play CDs that skipped on my previous Technics one.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Want a list of the stuff I have got going (decided to sell all of mine whilst there are still people around that will appreciate it).
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Any particular genres a lot of the really good stuff like Floyd has already gone. May take a few days but I was going to do it for Facebook any way and try to sell as one lot.
Not really, but I love Floyd/Gilmour ?
I’ve a wide reach, Sounds of the Suburbs, Bowie, Madness, many Rock, along the lines of Free, Cream, Zeppelin, Cooper, Sabbath, Purple etc. Alex Harvey is a favorite of mine. But I can listen to anything tbh.
cliveb
Head Pro
Anything? Really?
I like to think I have reasonably catholic tastes, but there's plenty of stuff that I wouldn't ever insult my ears with: rap, disco, rap, boy bands, rap, country & western.
(Oh, and Mozart for some weird reason. My loss)
BTW, did I mention that I don't like rap?
Cleaning and listening to some records that haven’t seen the light of day for decades whilst Max is having a short back & sides.
Beezerk
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Good spot, yes the amp and CD player are both Marantz, they came as a job lot with some floor standing speakers and other bits and bobs.
Just got this little essential buddy, have to say, I’m like a kid in a sweet shop with all this.
Any news on that list of records Jim?
Any news on that list of records Jim?
