whart
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| Got an LP cleaner you want to make money on? I had mentioned in an earlier response to this thread that there is a vendor of used records that offers a cleaning service. He is located in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. I have no idea if that is near you, but here's his home page. (I've bought a few rec... | |
| Got an LP cleaner you want to make money on? I'm glad Doug took that one on, and diplomatically, to boot. As to cleaning new records, there are a number of issues going on, aside from the mold release compounds (which are part of the plastic nuggets now, and not a spray, like PAM*):if you lo... | |
| Sheffield Lab SBrown- without getting into the musical merits, the Moscow Sessions, as I recall, was not direct to disc. | |
| Got an LP cleaner you want to make money on? PS: if you have a couple friends who are local and similarly inclined, all of you could chip in and share a cleaning set up, as an alternative. | |
| Got an LP cleaner you want to make money on? There is an ebay record vendor who touts steam, plus VPI, plus ultra-sonic cleaning of his used records for sale and if memory serves, he also offers a cleaning service for customers to send him their records to clean. If you can't find him, i'll ... | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? PS There are also RL mastered copies of The Band's self-titled album with the lime green Capitol label - another jewel, musically and sonically. | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? Ebuzz- there is a fair amount of discussion on the web about the 'RL' cut of LZ II. The biggest issue with these is that many are trashed. Check to see if it is inscribed 'RL' on both sides- some copies are not. The preferred copy is apparently on... | |
| Sheffield Lab Lindis- I don't know that the Alice record is 'better' sonically than the Sheffields, but I guess my point (as others have said) is that choosing music over sonics, you can still find killer sounding 'regular' pressings and that pressing of "Love ... | |
| Sheffield Lab I have most of them that I bought back in the day, but musically, the 'pop' records aren't of great interest to me. Like a lot of 'audiophile' speciality recordings, many of them sounded 'good' for demo purposes but weren't something I'd choose to... | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? I didn't watch the video. Does Michael use the term 'hot stampers' in the context of Tom Port's offerings or generically, to refer to recordings that were mastered 'hot'? | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? I have certainly heard the term 'hot' applied to a particular mastering, the best example of which is probably the 'RL' cut of LZII. It sounds dramatically different than every other copy of that record I have heard. | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? I think Chayro is correct, that the term is used by Tom Port at Better Records to market particular copies that he and his staff have determined, based on listening, sound better than other copies of the same record. Without getting into the subje... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll The only quibble I have with Schubert's assessment (apart from the fact that I like early R & R and what followed from it) is S's observation, on the one hand, that R& R is visceral, not intellectual ('hits you in the crotch' to paraphrase... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll I highly recommend Nick Tosche's "Hellfire," about Jerry Lee Lewis at his peak. Lewis was raised in that fire and brimstone deep southern version of religion, and Tosche's writing alternates between dark, mock biblical passages and the sheer exube... | |
| gloves to touch vinyl surface Princeton Record Exchange used to keep the expensive vinyl behind the counter, only the jackets (which were in a poly bag, if memory serves) were out in the stacks- if a customer was serious about a record, he/she would grab the jacket and go to t... |