glassner@cwruecmp.UUCP (Andrew Glassner) (09/29/83)
With the current talk about record products showing up in net.audio I thought I'd relate a d4 incident I went through a few months ago. I've got quite a record collection, and to protect my investment I would always d4 a record before playing it. One day I had put a record on the turntable and had gone through the first pass of the d4 process (put a LITTLE bit of d4 on the brush and apply it to the record) when the phone rang. I stopped what I was doing and picked up the phone. My roommate decided to help me out (with good intentions) and re-applied the d4. Unfortunately, he globbed it onto the brush pretty heavily, with the result that the record actually glistened from the applied fluid. He lowered the tonearm and started playing the record. The upshot of it all was that my stylus was destroyed. The little diamond tip actually seperated from the rest of the cartridge! When I got off the phone I noticed the horrible sounds coming from the stereo, and eventually found that this was the cause. I firmly hold the opinion that the d4 dissolved the adhesive holding on the diamond (the stylus was a Audio- Technica TK-3E, which I don't think is made any more). Of course, there was too much d4 on the disk in the first place, but I was still surprised. -Andrew decvax!cwruecmp!glassner