Recent content by 13hm13

Referring to user-replaceable styli... With a brand like Ortofon, one still has pretty good modern options for older carts like the OM series. For all my other mid-fi cartridge inventory -- Pickering, Shure, Stanton, ADC, Empire -- it seems like one is limited to Jico, Tonar, Pfanstehl...

Amir accepts donations. And many members are "Forum Donor". Look for "Forum Donor" under their forum name.

I've been on pfm since 2007. Gotta say, not very impressed with much of that community. And owner/admin "Tony" is a weirdo. YMMV! That said, PFM has respectable SimilarWeb metrics. It's a little better than WHF at the moment. SimilarWeb : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarweb "Similarweb...

Jesus Christ, bro! This is not re-assuring. I use forums as tablets and diaries. And I HATE losing content. It's like a hard drive crash w/o back up. Even the old Yahoo and Usenet forums are permanently gone. And they were once the backbone of the internet. Thru Archive.org, I was able to...

Regarding the OP about WHF disappearing ... see my recent post in New Member Intro Posts: https://forums.whathifi.com/threads/never-disappear-the-member-comments-or-forum.138853/ Bottom line, it happened at Stereophile. The Forum disappeared w/o warning (late 2023) and Member comments just...

Why are you beating around the bush and playing trolling games with a newbie, That's weird. Perhaps a Mod or Admin can elucidate. Thx in advance.

Are you saying WHF's Forum and/or Comment features were deliberately shut down? If so, why?

I'm new here. I noticed the SimilarWeb rating of WhatHifi Forum to be be above 300K, and the main WhatHF site is above 5 million. That's very good. That means WHF is getting plenty to traffic. SimilarWeb allows one to compare traffic of various websites and Forums. E.g. Stereophile.com is...

The increase in noise during, say 10khz, is SIGNIFICANT. As if someone sprinkled sand on the grooves. I'll have to look at the grooves with a microscope. Yes, all that heavy vibration (in those passages) with a diamond stylus can destroy the PVC quicker.

No! Note what I said in the OP . The noise gets worse ONLY in the very-high-freq tones, So the grooves/tracks are mostly quiet , I haven't yet done ultrasonic or machine cleaning, so doing deep cleaning may very well help. PVC records are not that fragile. Otherwise, their sales would've...

Recently, I acquired a few test LPs from local used record shops. One is from Shure (1981), the other from Command (1960). These are not PROFESSIONAL test records, like CBS, which are filled with test tones, tracking tests, wave specific tones (like square or triangle) , and extended sweeps...

This is one of my basement systems, back in late 2001. In Northwest Ohio, USA. Home-Based Audio/Video System Evaluator Some equipment in info-graphic above: Audio by Van Alstine FET-Valve Preamp Audio by Van Alstine Omega III 260 amplifier Sennheiser HD 600 headphones Theta Chroma 396 DAC...