Contact cleaning, cartridge maintenance, and general housekeeping.
In part 1, we laid out a strategy for auditioning multiple tonearms and cartridges on both a Galibier Eiger prototype and our customer’s turntable (from another manufacturer). In this post, we finalize how we adapted the customer’s existing armboard to work correctly with his mis-specified Reed 2A tonearm. Mis-specified tonearm? Strong words, I know.
The last of the Summer updates – adapting a first generation Gavia platter to TPI© / Carbon.
I had a conversation with a friend in the industry who challenged the premise of Galibier’s on-site setup model.
A three city setup tour and some tonearm setup tricks of the trade … Last week, I finished a setup tour, covering Chicago, Bethesda and Dallas. I played with some very fine systems which included two Durand arms (Telos and Kairos), two Schroeder CBs, and an Abis 1.2. The system shown here is the Dallas …
All too many stylus cleaning solutions do either nothing, or worse yet run the risk of damaging your cantilever assembly. There’s a cleaning technique that’s been in use for nearly a decade (having a good track record), but I still find very few audiophiles using it.
I receive frequent queries about the best record cleaner to use. My short answer is: “the one that you actually end up using”. This may seem like an off-handed quip, so let me provide some background …
