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Analog Preview?

When playing vinyl during quite passage and at the start of new tracks I can hear a low volume preview of the two to three notes of what is coming next on the record.

I using on SL-1200 Mk2 with an ortofon 2m blue cartridge.

I assume this is due to a misaligned cartridge.

Can someone provide an explanation before I start messing around with my cartrdge alignement?

Thanks and happy new-year.
nick_sr
sprog
37 posts
 
Point taken Dougdeacon, I was simply responding to Elizabeth's post in which she said that "it does mean your system is very resolving".

My late 70's 80's system was very poor and it could be heard easily with that.

Cabbiendi says it's easy to hear it with headphones only.

I agree - but as Elizabeth noted and to which I disagree - the cart doesn't need to be spot-on at all - my system was extremely basic for many years and I could hear pre-echo easily.

Anyway - not important really, eh :)
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Heh. Me too. I first heard it on the fold-up-into-a-suitcase stereo my parents gave me for my 13th birthday. Ah, that was a fine day.

1966. That thing got me through high school, and from the Beatles to Beethoven and Bach. It ruined every record it touched (who knew?) but it played those pre-echoes great! :)
sprog
37 posts
 
Indeed Dougdeacon, me too. I came up with a theory (at that time) that the pre-echo was the sound of the band in their room, seperate from the recording room, leaking through and getting onto tape from vibration in the walls - before the mic's picked up the band playing in their room (I'd decided that mic's were very slow at responding).

Errr yeah, that was clever.

BUT my theory IS correct, OKAY?
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