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Re: Turntable performance/upgrade advice?

Hi,

First, let me say that the others are right -- you need to have reasonably clean records, and it is true that there are many, many ways to do it for not too much money. Not sure of the condition of your records, but if they're grungy and finger-printed up you are almost certainly have to do some wet scrubbing. There are lots of posts on making home-brew cleaning fluid, you can do a search or simply try a few drops of dish cleaning liquid and a cup or so of rubbing alcohol into a gallon of grocery store grade distilled water. Get two gallons (a whopping 79 cents each) because you WILL have to rinse the fluid off. Towel drying will prevent too much water spotting (a BAD thing).

Another cheap suggestion is to consider making a DIY (do-it-yourself) mat to replace the stock mat. Mats can make a huge difference. Now I'm not familiar with your particular 'table, but the Al platter on my DENON rings like a bell. Currently using a cork spotmat. Cork works very well to dampen those ringing platters. Suggest you go over to the Analog Department and look for their instructions on making some really cool spotmats. Look near the bottom of the page on the left and click DIY Dept, then go down that page to DIY Platter Mats. Like I said, cork is very effective but you'll see they have used quite a number of materials successfully. My DENON is dead quiet.

Hope this helps, Joe


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