Longer speaker cables or interconnects
Seriously, if a cable can carry a signal for over a thousand miles without harm, what's a meter or two here and there? Imagine the mileage of cabling they use to use in recording studios during the so- called golden age. If Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Peggy Lee can sound that good 70 years ago under those conditions then its absolutely pointless to worry. The OP is right to spend his money carefully on cables because no system ever built can yet improve on the original recordings. At any price. Sometimes remastering from original sources can remove the smear imposed by too much mixing down / or by mastering from worn tapes. Regarding the isolation of your turntable you should try to enhance the decks ability to prevent outside resonance from interfering with the tracking. Hopefully, if its not a budget deck, the designer has already done most of the work for you. |
@unreceivedogma, having read a few Springsteen biographies before his recent autobiography I was pleasantly surprised at how candid he was. He didn't gloss over his problems with perfectionism or forget those who gave him a helping hand. It's must be kind of strange for you to have been involved in a scene which has since gone down in history and been catalogued hundreds of times. The closest I got to Max's was via the Pistols LP. Regarding the turntable feedback I wonder whether the lid is picking up the airborne feedback when its up and transmitting it to the headshell. It might be worth removing the lid completely to see if it disappears entirely. In any case 85db or thereabouts is pretty good. Many a deck would start dangerously howling by then. |
unreceivedogma, Here we were in the UK thinking how incredibly exciting it was that Punk was going to change the world, and it was ours - homegrown. Only later we found out about places like Max's and it's connection with the Velvets/Warhol, New York Dolls/Malcolm McLaren all leading to the Sex Pistols. We later got to see Debbie Harry/ Blondie and the Ramones on TV for ourselves and then hear all about CBGB's. Now all those NY bands have passed into legend. In the end it did all change the world if only to make it cool to be young, even more than the 60s had done. The great thing now is that if you have the attitude you're never too old to rock. Or as a certain Mr Young might say, 'Keep On Rockin' in the Free World'. Great stuff, thanks. |
@unreceivedogma, thanks for the links. Here in the UK many used to call New York the capital of the world. I don't remember anyone ever arguing against it. For me, on top of everything else it was the home of Marvel Comics. It was where Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and others created some of the greatest works of fiction the world has ever seen. |
The 80s ushered in a new kind of zeitgeist. All of a sudden the need to belong communally, the need for companionship, the need to give and receive love got fractured and superseded by a need to make money. Still there are always those who don't totally buy into the bean counting culture. They understand other commodities are even more important. It's also great to see Mancuso's influence still at large. They even had clubs in London playing music through a pair of Tannoy Westminsters. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/07/spiritland-brilliant-corners-london-audiophile-bars |
