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Whether a TT skips when you walk around is much more a facet of its surroundings than itself. Any properly balanced TT will skip like crazy in the wrong environment. DJs in discos who don't want to take any chances on this, would mount their TTs on pillars to the floor BELOW the dance floor...

>>Compression, nonoise, etc, What's nonoise? Mr Bob

Rachel and Robert - So true on the RR wear and tear issues. The pinch roller would get hard as it aged, and douching it with alcohol was imperative to not having the tape spill off the capstan/pinch roller ass'y. Same is true for cassette. I had to do this to my trusty but many years-old...

Thanks, guys. I knew AC-3 meant Dolby Digital, but I didn't know the rest of all that! Mr Bob

I think DD means direct to disc. I think they just barely had AC-3 in the time of the LD, and neither Dolby Digital nor DTS existed yet. I think with LDs, Dolby Prologic was as good as it got. I have a customer where some really expensive high end Meridian equipment was installed around...

It occurs to me that in some ways I am using the same considerations around plastics today in cleaning optics on RPTVs and FPTVs that I used back then on those old, dusty records. Some lenses are glass, but most are plastic. The same considerations apply in both cases, of course. Namely...

A Nitty Gritty is not absolutely necessary. As media specialist for the University of Oregon in Eugene many years ago, one of my projects was to clean a collection of oversized 33 1/3 rpm non-LP records that had gathered tons of dust in an attic. My job was to transfer them to cassette...