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| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries Yeah, Lynne sure has a "signature" sound. Every album he produces ends up sounding like an ELO record! The one album he did that I love is the little known Something Peculiar by Julianna Raye. | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries Jeff Lynne is well known for his love of extreme levels of compression. I love the early albums of Dave Edmunds, but what Jeff Lynne did to Dave's sound on his productions completely changed Dave's signature sound (1950's Rock 'n' Roll, Traditiona... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @lowrider57: Chad Kassem licensed the rights to reissue Tea For The Tillerman by Cat Stevens, and hired Bernie Grundman to do the mastering (he has his own facility in Los Angeles). The original UK "pink label" Island Records LP has long been an a... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries @grislybutter (now THERE'S a handle!): I'm lucky to have two local record shops that specialized in used LP's, and one antique mall with an incredible LP booth. I regularly find LP's from the 1950's through the 80's, in from VG+ to near Mint condi... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries To add to Bill’s (@whart) as-always excellent comments, consider this: When the LP’s Bill referred to were being produced in numbers ranging from tens of thousands to millions (and that’s just in the U.S.A.), production master tapes were sent to n... | |
| Moving Iron Adventures Yap @lewm, Deccas could be a problem with some tables. The first time I heard a Decca---the Blue---was at the only high end dealer in San Jose in the early-70’s, who had tried it in the Thorens TD-125. Too much hum, so they put it on a Sony (don’t... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? @oblgny: Yeah, my current room isn’t big enough for the Tympani’s, so they sit packed in their cartons. But the Eminent Technology LFT-8b works quite well in a 14’ wide room (the size of mine also), and I much prefer it to the MG1.7 I compared it ... | |
| Parity For a younger person, choosing between starting an LP playing system & buying LP’s vs. going full digital is a reasonable proposition. For old guys, who already had a healthy LP library when the CD was introduced, and continued buying them for... | |
| Starting from scratch in a large room Everyone here didn't get the system they now have by going on a forum and asking the participants what to buy. They started with a beginner system, and started the process of learning and upgrading. You have to put in the hard work yourself, or pa... | |
| how were copies of vinyl made in "third-party" countries With all due respect, it is not just masters, mothers, and stampers. The first step in making LP’s is for the mastering engineer to cut a lacquer from whatever the source is. From the 1950’s onward that source was most commonly a tape copy (hopefu... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? @oblgny: If you have room for them (51" wide each), keep your eyes peeled for a pair of the Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa, or it’s predecessor T-IV (48" wide). It is the first Magnepan offered in the style of the current MG30.7---three individual pane... | |
| The Beatles Revolver Stereophile reviewer Ken Micallef has a YouTube channel. His latest video (posted yesterday 10-19) is dedicated to the new Revolver LP boxset, which he displays and discusses. A search of his name on YouTube will lead you right to it. I find Ken’... | |
| Parity @thyname and @rvpiano: Audiogon member @slaw---whose opinions I greatly respect---having worked long and hard at optimizing his LP player and the system it feeds, decided he didn’t want to do the same for digital sources, so eschews CD’s/SACD’s/et... | |
| Parity @rvpiano: No offense intended, but this is what happens when you make sound quality your first priority. I've been there myself, but now make my next musical selection based on what I'm hungering for musically. If it is also in good sound, wonderf... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. @aquint: Great post Andy! Your point about Ron not understanding what perfect pitch actually means is one that occurred to me, but left the front of my brain soon thereafter. I've known only one person who had perfect pitch, an actual genius (Hew... |