Just now purchased the ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic

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I Just now purchased the ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic. It's on back order but I am told that one should arrive in the retailers inventory next week. I may get the unit in two weeks - I hope.

This now means I will own and regularly operate:

VPI HW27 Typhoon
Audio Desk Systeme
Klaudio
ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic

I should be able to give some great cleaning machine reviews!
 
MDP said:
Congrats David! I can't wait for your thoughts.
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I'm still working on that review, BTW. I received a note [pointer] to run my experiment in reverse. That has taken a huge turn...and has made the writeup very long. Plus, I need to make sure that I am objective and state no biases. It's a lot of work!
 
Thank you for all your effort David, nice to finally see once and for all, the best cleaner.
 
joeinid said:
... nice to finally see once and for all, the best cleaner.
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David.......I am looking forward to hearing about the ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic. It appears to have some very unique features not found in other record cleaning machines. This will be interesting.
 
Golucid said:
I Just now purchased the ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic. It's on back order but I am told that one should arrive in the retailers inventory next week. I may get the unit in two weeks - I hope.

This now means I will own and regularly operate:

VPI HW27 Typhoon
Audio Desk Systeme
Klaudio
ClearAudio Double Matrix Sonic

I should be able to give some great cleaning machine reviews!
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Don't take this the wrong way but don't you think you'd have better sound if instead the same money had been invested in a better table or cartridge?
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Don't take this the wrong way but don't you think you'd have better sound if instead the same money had been invested in a better table or cartridge?
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To each his own I met a guy at RMAF who was buying only the best of vinyl he could find he had no gear no turn table but his records were in good shape. I scan for his obit from time to time.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Don't take this the wrong way but don't you think you'd have better sound if instead the same money had been invested in a better table or cartridge?
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Hi Myles.

I'm blessed and thankful to be in a place that I can afford to be a bit frivolous and you know, I'm just a plain-o'l dumb consumer. I'm nothing special and truth be told, I am rather unremarkable too. So, my views are coming from an average Joe...the consumer.

What I do have going for me is a passion for music and even more so, I am fixated on analog/vinyl. Above all things, I love records. Because I am just some average dude/nobody. I'd like to do something slightly interesting...at least once in my lifetime and that is to do this experiment. It's nothing more than pure pleasure and I get to share my experience here on the Shark.

...And just maybe...slight as it may be...maybe I will shed some light on something...or maybe not. But I am willing to take a risk and perhaps embarrass the heck out of myself but nevertheless, contribute something to this great community.

More importantly, through sharing, I will engage some conversation and I will learn from experts here...that is mutual sharing. Isn't that what its all about?

As for that better cartridge or turntable. I have a more than $4,000 Ortofon Windfeld and I am delighted with my ClearAudio/McIntosh MT10. I have no desire to upgrade.


- David
 
Garth said:
To each his own I met a guy at RMAF who was buying only the best of vinyl he could find he had no gear no turn table but his records were in good shape. I scan for his obit from time to time.
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Yes there was a guy who did that too at G&A Records in NYC too. We used to joke what he spun his records on. :facepalm:
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Yes there was a guy who did that too at G&A Records in NYC too. We used to joke what he spun his records on. :facepalm:
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I remember at an early age my momma would say, "there's a bed for every butt". Myself, when on my own, a was ridiculously poor and I remember my first record player. Myles, I would have been one of those you laughed at, but it was all that I could afford...and I love records. Fast forward a few years, I have improved my system. But I have to say, being poor gave me a much richer experience because I cherished each and every note. I learned the gift of appreciation.

Today, when someone is experiencing joy, it's pandemic and I can't help but feel that great energy. It's awesome.

In my short lived life, I have realized that everyone has unique thresholds about what quality is and what their expectations are. This is what makes planet earth so amazing - the rich diversity and uniqueness of life. Wow, it's powerful. I love it!
 
Golucid said:
Hi Myles.

I'm blessed and thankful to be in a place that I can afford to be a bit frivolous and you know, I'm just a plain-o'l dumb consumer. I'm nothing special and truth be told, I am rather unremarkable too. So, my views are coming from an average Joe...the consumer.

What I do have going for me is a passion for music and even more so, I am fixated on analog/vinyl. Above all things, I love records. Because I am just some average dude/nobody. I'd like to do something slightly interesting...at least once in my lifetime and that is to do this experiment. It's nothing more than pure pleasure and I get to share my experience here on the Shark.

...And just maybe...slight as it may be...maybe I will shed some light on something...or maybe not. But I am willing to take a risk and perhaps embarrass the heck out of myself but nevertheless, contribute something to this great community.

More importantly, through sharing, I will engage some conversation and I will learn from experts here...that that is mutual sharing. Isn't that what its all about?

As for that better cartridge or turntable. I have a more than $4,000 Ortofon Windfeld and I am delighted with my ClearAudio/McIntosh MT10. I have no desire to upgrade.


- David
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This has to be one of the best, and most honest posts I've ever read.

To go to this expense, and the time involved, along with no bias because he actually "bought" all the different machines is simply amazing.

This is true passion for analog playback, and to suggest anything different is just wrong!!!!!
 
David, very cool. I look forward to hearing your feedback on these machines.
 
MDP said:
Me too Allen, name one reviewer in the world that has done anything like this.
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In the very first review of IIRC Nitty Gritty machine in Audio magazine, they sprinkled the records with a fine dirt and then took pictures before and after.

Check out the pictures here before and after cleaning with the DAK brush.

DAK's Carbon Fiber Anti Static Record Cleaning System

Discwasher (Maeier and Risch) also did the same before and after pics and showed the micro-organisms growing in the record grooves.

I'm also pretty sure one of the guys on Dagogo reported on cleaning records with multiple machines and heard an improvement.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
In the very first review of IIRC Nitty Gritty machine in Audio magazine, they sprinkled the records with a fine dirt and then took pictures before and after.

Check out the pictures here before and after cleaning with the DAK brush.

DAK's Carbon Fiber Anti Static Record Cleaning System

Discwasher (Maeier and Risch) also did the same before and after pics and showed the micro-organisms growing in the record grooves.
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Myles, my experiment takes an extreme. I coated one piece of vinyl with Cool Whip and dryer lint and scrubbed the substance deep into the grooves and processed through my machines. I have also been testing vinyl using other contaminants as well, such as: finger prints, oily finger prints, food, jam, jelly, snot, dirt, glue, glitter, peanut butter, lipstick, stickers and when pealed away left stick substance, grease, hair, sugar substance.

In the extreme case, I wanted to see if the machines can clean the most ridiculous. Clearly, they are all capable of cleaning already clean and slightly dirty records and yeah, fine dust too.

I doubt anyone has done what I am doing...but...I could be wrong too and that's totally ok with me.

I'm still writing my report :)
 
How did you get enough snot to cover an LP :fingers: :D Good on you David, you go for it, just, if I'm ever at your place, you're putting the LP's on ;)
 
Golucid said:
Hi Myles.

I'm blessed and thankful to be in a place that I can afford to be a bit frivolous and you know, I'm just a plain-o'l dumb consumer. I'm nothing special and truth be told, I am rather unremarkable too. So, my views are coming from an average Joe...the consumer.

What I do have going for me is a passion for music and even more so, I am fixated on analog/vinyl. Above all things, I love records. Because I am just some average dude/nobody. I'd like to do something slightly interesting...at least once in my lifetime and that is to do this experiment. It's nothing more than pure pleasure and I get to share my experience here on the Shark.

...And just maybe...slight as it may be...maybe I will shed some light on something...or maybe not. But I am willing to take a risk and perhaps embarrass the heck out of myself but nevertheless, contribute something to this great community.

More importantly, through sharing, I will engage some conversation and I will learn from experts here...that is mutual sharing. Isn't that what its all about?

As for that better cartridge or turntable. I have a more than $4,000 Ortofon Windfeld and I am delighted with my ClearAudio/McIntosh MT10. I have no desire to upgrade.


- David
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David, it's "the plain ol consumer" that has the valued real world opinion!

~Eric
 
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