Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Phono Cartridge and Cleaning Records Message-ID: <10162@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 16:47:57 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.10162 Posted: Tue Apr 23 16:47:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 04:08:49 EST References: <1282@watdcsu.UUCP> <1382@hou4b.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 26 > > On this subject: Musical Heritage Society advertises a cleaning machine for > about $300. They quote a glowing review in one of the golden-ears > publications. Has anyone had any experience with this unit? It sounds like > it's similar in principle to the K.M. By the way, why are such machines > so expensive? Granted they have to be gentle, but wow and flutter specs aren't > very critical, are they? > -- They aren't critical. The Keith Monks uses a turntable inside that looks like the cheap ones that you find in all-in-one $199 stereo systems. The tone arm is cheap, too. I'd expect one large aspect of the price is the vacuum pump but most is labor and profit. These things are manufactured in pretty low quantities. You know what the KM machine uses to keep the tonearm off the record? "Yellow Thread" Go down to the notions store and buy some more. The thing is a pain. When it works, it works, but it is pretty cheap and goes out of operation frequently. I think I'll stick to the ol' Cecil B. Watts disk scrub brush. -Ron Back when I was involved with Polk Audio it was interesting to know that the parts that go into a Polk Model 10 sold for about $40 (in 1978). The rest was labor and markup.