Thank you for your record cleaning recommendation. Is there a technique that you you use to protect the record's label?

Your comment about the 80K$ TT is interesting -- I've been looking at some sites promoting 14K$ turntables and tube pre-amps and 20-40K$ tube amps that make me want to start constructing some for sale. It makes me appreciate my H.H. Scott amp and F.M. tuner along with the Garrard Lab 80 and its Shure M-55E cartridge even more --- all 40 years old and still performing wonderfully.

As for your GW collection: last spring I bought -- for a few cents each disk -- two shopping-carts of 78's -- in albums -- in pristine condition -- that a local GW got from a (former) girl's college library. Composers playing their own compositions, etc. It's amazing how splended the sound quality is on those old records -- a sonic purity unheard of today.