#1 Give away - The sound of cosmic background radiation, that endless crackle that can not be cleaned.
#2 Give away -"miss-tracking" that does not cause you to say "Boy, these old LPs certainly have great dynamic range." Distortion in "fortes" or high freq. passage.
#3+ Give away - A Windexed record will look pretty good, so the lack of "dull grey" (no rainbow effect) is not indication of condition. Run, don't walk from spindle marked records - particularly 50's monos. Don't buy records from people who say that playing wet is the best way to hear a record.
Gregg
#2 Give away -"miss-tracking" that does not cause you to say "Boy, these old LPs certainly have great dynamic range." Distortion in "fortes" or high freq. passage.
#3+ Give away - A Windexed record will look pretty good, so the lack of "dull grey" (no rainbow effect) is not indication of condition. Run, don't walk from spindle marked records - particularly 50's monos. Don't buy records from people who say that playing wet is the best way to hear a record.
Gregg