On May 20, 5:54 pm, "west" wrote:
Did you forget the email you recently sent me saying how you truly hate me
and McCoy? Realizing that you are totally whipped and undressed for all to
see, you try to temper your loosing position. Now there's only 2 things I
don't like about you ... and that's your face.
Perhaps the curious in the group might like to see your e-mail to me
together with my two replies....
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Your note:
This is exactly the kind of garbage spewing that Iain so kindly asked
for you to stop. My skin is thick so you're only making yourself look
foolish. But you are most likely being sucessful at chasing away those
learned posters who shy away from this Ng because of ppl like you. So
many have already left as Mr. Churches aptly pointed out. Rodents are
missing a wealth of information because of it. Please clean up your
act. Try to control yourself. If you feel that you just have to get it
out of your system, perhaps you can send it via private email.
Cordially,
west
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Wieck
Newsgroups: rec.audio.tubes
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 9:53 PM
Subject: Caring For Your LPs
On May 6, 7:11 pm, "west" wrote:
I would like some practical advice on how to clean and care for my LPs. A
colleague told me he just uses soap and water. I don't think that this is a
good idea especially because the water in Florida is very hard. I owned a
VPI 16 that bit the dust a few years ago. Looking at some of the prices for
auto cleaning machines and the various specialized fluids seem outlandish.
Yet some of my records are (to me) irreplaceable. How do you care for your
vinyl? Thanks in advance.
Cordially,
west
Oh, for krissakes....
There is so damned much good information out there on the care and
feeding of vinyl that for you to ask such a question without doing the
primary research yourself is irresponsible, lazy and just plain
stupid.
For one claiming to have daughters 'who went on to West
Point' (dubious at best.... especially the daughter part... making you
a parent... YIKES!), that would require that you are old enough to be
of the vinyl generation at least towards its end. And, at the end of
the vinyl generation, its care and feeding was pretty sophisticated.
Meaning you are being disingenuous at best.
So, give it a rest and do some real work for once. Start with the
obvious. Start with the most basic implications of the species.
a) keep the records clean. Scrupulously clean.
b) do not play them more than once in 24 hours. Can you guess why? I
doubt it.
c) keep them free of static to the extent possible.
d) use the proper stylus.
e) make damned sure that the stylus is in good condition.
f) track at the proper force.
g) use the best damned tone-arm you can afford, preferably linear.
After that, there isn't a whole helluvalot more to do about it. And,
for the record, "Young professional" and "daughters went on to West
Point" are mutually exclusive. So, which is it?
Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA
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Reply 1:
With all due respect, you are a fool. Worse, you are an obtuse fool
with the insight of a warthog. For all your puling, whining, claims of
sensitivity and attempts at cleverness, until you think before you
"send", you will continue to be a fool.
It is quite rare that I engage in no-holds-barred vituperation and
invective, but if ever there were a coterie of smug little idiots, it
would be you and your idol, and the accretion of vermin that buzz
about you. The saddest part about the entire situation is that between
the group of you, there is not enough genuine knowledge of tube lore
or the care and feeding of tube equipment to support a one-tube
Crosley Pup radio.
You deserve what you get, you ask for it, you revel in it, so quit
bitching when it happens.
Peter Wieck
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Reply 2:
Of course, if you actually want to learn something about vintage
equipment, audio and otherwise, and you stop feeling sorry for
yourself long enough to do something about it:
http://www.dvhrc.org/gallery06.cfm
http://www.renningers.com/kutzradio.htm
.... would be a worthwhile endeavor for you. Lots of material, parts,
information, tubes, caps, bits, pieces dibs and dabs, bits and bobs.
And a lot of equipment. I run a diagnostic clinic, others with design
and production expertise and DEEP knowledge of tube lore from its very
roots are in attendance and more than willing to talk, help, give
advice, even hands-on help... all without the slighest need to blow
their own horns or pontificate about their former years as an advisor
to heads of state.... And later on this crew will swap tales and save
the world over a bottle of good single-malt... or cheap beer, or
bottled water, whatever works. Patrick Turner would be right at home;
Andre(w) would be first laughed at, then ignored. Were it to persist,
finally ridden out on a rail.
Keep in mind that the art of tubes has not advanced in 40 years other
than around the edges. So a good grounding in essential designs and
successful executions of these designs is imperative if you wish to
move forward in the hobby. Which is why I have suggested on several
occasions that you start with something basic and well-understood,
such as a Dyna 70 or similar and rebuild it to the many permutations
and combinations of designs that are out there and made for it. Get
those under your belt and much will become clear. Better yet, start
with a simple 5-tube, no-transformer radio. Rebuild that back to the
best it can be, and you will have learned: Amplification, rF
reception, feedback circuitry, transformer (output) matching and
loading, alignment, the effect of capacitor sizes on tone, lead
dressing, hum-loops.... all with five little (cheap) tubes. Basic sh*t
that without it being part of your thinking process will trip you
every time if ignored. Too often, one behaves as your idol expecting a
design to spring like Athena fully armored from its fevered brow.
And that sort of thinking is incredibly dangerous... as well as being
a singularly powerful and attractive force of ignorance.
You need to get out more.
Peter Wieck
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Nothing much about hatred... just an abiding contempt, but some hope
that you might break the thrall McCoy has over you and start thinking
for yourself... little hope of that.
Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA