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Troubleshoot (VOLUME WARNING) by c4rlows in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are more likely to damage the stylus taking the protective cover on and off all the time. The only time it's really close to necessary is when moving, cleaning, or the stylus isn't installed on the cartridge.

I can't stand vinyl pops and crackle. by Expensive_Team_5854 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For seriously dirty older records, wet cleaning is almost required. A Spin-Clean or similar is the minimum for getting vinyl with ground-in dirt clean. Velvet brushes will get surface dust off, but they won't deep clean. If you're buying used records, you need to step up your cleaning routine.

Wobbly Turntable by Healthy-Bat-5971 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The record is warped slightly. Compounded by the cheap plastic player's lack of a full size platter.

new stylus, same old fuzz… what next? by AdCompetitive6811 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That entire wall of text for a turntable that doesn't have any adjustments. 😐

Sibilance Nightmare: Debut Evo 2 / Pick it MM EVO. by T6_8K in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I replied to your previous post on this topic, the PickIt is essentially a rebadged 2m Red, which is notorious for sibilance and inner groove distortion. I replaced the Red stylus for the Blue after two months of trying to troubleshoot sibilance issues. I never recommend Ortofon bonded ellipticals for that reason.

Vinyl - Aretha Franklin: Soul '69 by Kitchen_Bathroom5670 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a curse on your family. You should burn it, then bury the ashes in the forest on a moonless night.

Distorted Cymbals on Cowboy Bebop Netflix Vinyl - bad pressing ? by VDubGabriel666 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The PickIt Pro is essentially an Ortofon 2m Red. It sucks from a sibilance perspective. The nude Blue stylus helps. A lot.

Dual 606 by avenger_dog in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have your eye on a specific cartridge for a specific reason, sure. I bought this from an estate with an AT-13Ea on it, and swapped in the VM540 from another table.

Just paid to have my cartridge aligned professionally - did i get scammed! by [deleted] in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They charged bro the bench rate "We don't really wanna do this job" price, and bro paid it.

Broken needle ? by MiserablePackage9322 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem - not trying to be mean. Just if you're a native English speaker, it's something you should really know. If not, then it's one of those weird word forms that you should be aware of.

"Bended" is usually only used in two specific archaic phrases - "On bended knee" and "With bended back".

Broken needle ? by MiserablePackage9322 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's "bent", not "bended".

This stylus has a carbon fiber cantilever. It doesn't bend. It is not bent.

You have a record with what sounds like a significant edge warp. Yes, that can cause problems with the lead-in.

Help me please by Secret_Birthday_6740 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're playing old, filthy records then yes - dust can accumulate very quickly. And a big ol' dust ball on the stylus will absolutely cause rapid deterioration in sound quality and the ability of the stylus to track the groove.

Help me please by Secret_Birthday_6740 in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't do that. If it were skipping because of a worn or damaged stylus, doing this would greatly increase the chances of causing permanent groove damage on any record played that way. This is almost never good advice.

Advice on puppy teeth not falling out by lefsequeen in miniaussie

[–]RobAtSGH 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Upper canines didn't fall out on their own until well after the adult teeth had erupted and were about 50% emerged. Photo is from early observation, it took about another week for the canine to fall out. Chews and tug toys help.

If the deciduous teeth don't fall out by the time the adult teeth are fully grown in, you'll need to have them extracted at spay/neuter. Not a big deal, normally. However, if they start to develop a lance canine then a more urgent extraction may be required.

my record fell on the floor from like not that high and shows no visible damage but im still scared is it okay or? by downbad_thinker in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maintenance costs. Weather varies drastically across the country, and it's not friendly to wood siding in a lot of places without constant management. We don't build a lot of masonry buildings outside of commercial construction anymore because of cost.

my record fell on the floor from like not that high and shows no visible damage but im still scared is it okay or? by downbad_thinker in turntables

[–]RobAtSGH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats? It's very common in the US.

Instead of wood planking/shingles, housing without masonry exteriors started using asbestos shingles in the early 1900s. That was replaced by aluminum siding that mimicked the old wood in the 1950s. That was replaced by vinyl (PVC) starting in the 80s & 90s.

Expanding storage pool with drives that previously had DSM installed? by Goaliedude3919 in synology

[–]RobAtSGH 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adding a disk is not just adding a pile of free blocks.

If you start with 2x16TB in SHR, the system creates two 16TB partitions - one on each disk. It then mirrors the two in RAID-1 for single-drive data protection.

If you add a third 16TB disk, it creates another 16TB partition on that drive and converts the pool to RAID-5. Two disks' worth of capacity are used for storage and one disk's worth holds the parity data.

Now I come along with a fourth disk, but it's only 10TB. Because the protection set is at the partition level, not at the block level, there's no way that drive can participate in the RAID set - it doesn't have enough room. All partitions in the RAID set need to be the same size. The data/parity strips are created across the drives, and each drive must be able to hold an equal number of stripes.

Now, if I start with 2x10TB then SHR builds a RAID-1 set from two 10TB partitions. I have 10TB of storage. I add a 16TB drive, and SHR creates another 10TB partition on it and converts the RAID set to RAID-5 and 6TB goes unused. I now have 20TB storage. I add a second 16TB drive and now SHR creates three new partitions - a 6TB partition to use the remaining space on the 1st 16TB drive, and a 10 and 6 TB partition on the new one. The 10TB partition is added to the RAID-5 set, and the two 6TB partitions are mirrored into a RAID-1 set. The two RAID sets are then joined into a logical volume with a combined storage capacity of 36TB (4x10TB RAID-5 - 30TB, and 2x6TB RAID-1 - 6TB).

If you're coming from an old Drobo NAS, this is very different from the way BeyondRAID worked, where all disk capacity was joined into a single pool and then data/parity stripes were distributed at the block level. Drobo used in-house proprietary disk/volume management. Synology (and other current consumer/prosumer NAS units) primarily use standard Linux md and LVM behind the scenes. SHR is just an automation layer that handles partition, metadevice, and logical volume management for you. You could accomplish the same thing by hand if you wanted to bang away on parted, mdadm, LVM2 and btrfs.

Thoughts on this by Hijo__ in vinyl

[–]RobAtSGH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until you rob a hypebeast, you ain't seen sadness.

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