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In the Thread: Making LPs; What Goes Into the Mix
Post Subject: UV + Plastic =Posted by Paul S on: 6/5/2018
I think most plastics have trouble with UV, and some fungi are pretty tough, anyway. The "idea" for me is to put the LP in a machine, turn it on, and return soon to a clean, dry LP that's ready to play on my turntable in my high-demands hi-fi system. If "they" can build cars that drive themselves on our highways, certainly someone could come up with a better record cleaning machine. Obviously, there just isn't enough money "invested" in hi-fi to attract and retain the personnel necessary to do a given job. It's been like this since I can remember. Oddly, there was once a ton of money invested in "records"; only, the money in records was the music (OK, the rights to the music...), not the records, themselves, nor the gear to play the records, once a given market was saturated.
The only time I used heat (the oven) to flatten an LP was many years ago. Back then I used a Pickering (transcription) cartridge in a SME 3009 on a Rek-O-Kut TT, Leak Point One 6L6 amp driving modded Altec A-7 speakers. I did not perceive any problem from the treatment, but I never did it again. Now I mostly cull LPs before I buy them, and I use a vacuum holddown TT (SOTA Star). Anything that won't flatten goes to the DAV (or it just sits there on my records shelves...).
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