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In Reply to: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . posted by risabet on September 12, 2006 at 10:55:56:
These statements regarding record cleaning were made by both Gandy and Tiefenbrun in the context of the "typical" UK customer in the early 80's when affordable wet vacuum machines were not yet available and the poor quality of manual cleaning methods being employed at the time would more often than not result in nastier sounding records( damaged in some cases) than had they been left alone.
Both companies built their reputations by demonstrating to the average guy that a higher quality record player would bring greater enjoyment and appreciation of one's favorite music.Audiophilia, then as now, represented only a very small subset of the music buying public.
IMO,the advice then given to avoid * record cleaning* was absolutely correct for the vast majority of the music loving public of the time.
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- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . - Ken Lyon 13:04:33 09/12/06 (10)
- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . - sboez23 21:12:14 09/12/06 (4)
- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . - Ken Lyon 22:16:28 09/12/06 (3)
- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . ! - sboez23 18:40:47 09/13/06 (2)
- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . ! - Ken Lyon 20:10:54 09/13/06 (1)
- Re: Linn's Ivor T. said the same thing. . . !!! - sboez23 20:34:58 09/13/06 (0)
- what about the rubber bands and azimth adjustment? - OMalley 17:33:10 09/12/06 (3)
- what about them? - Ken Lyon 22:06:07 09/12/06 (2)
- Devil's advocate... - tketcham 23:09:34 09/12/06 (1)
- or - OMalley 04:25:16 09/13/06 (0)
- Thanks for that ... I always wondered about that anti record cleaning advice. IMO - bjh 16:06:50 09/12/06 (0)