whart
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| Session Men by Gil Baker cool. thanks for the heads up Eric. These are the unsung heroes of most recordings. A friend appeared on two tracks of McCartney's new album. (He's the guy from Nashville I've mentioned to you). One of the best natural musicians I've ever heard. N... | |
| Analogue Productions Jazz, Blues and Classical 33RPM vs 45RPM advice needed!!! The Analogue Productions (Chad) versions of Sonny Rollins "Way Out West" are markedly different in presentation: the 33 has the typical hard panning left and right that was characteristic of early stereo. The 45 cut actually has a center image. St... | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. @knollbrent -- at the risk of sounding snarky (i'm not), try to venture beyond the audiophile approved stuff. Sure, it sounds good, but there's a lot more to music than the stuff that gets released by the small handful of labels that release (and... | |
| How to Be a Contributor to Musical Culture Local colleges, including community colleges that teach recording arts and other schools and institutions that have choirs and other musical groups-- there’s something in it for you too, other than good karma. Help them record their work; if the c... | |
| What is the most $ you have spent on vinyl? @bdp24 - I bought many of those more expensive copies when I was still working as a lawyer in NYC. Now that I’m retired, I have even less incentive to spend that kind of money on a single album. I wouldn’t mind a trip to the Utrecht show, though. ... | |
| What is the most $ you have spent on vinyl? I doubt I’ve spent more than 5 or 6 hundred US on a single record. Those have typically been records that claim a market value of over 1k US dollars for a mint example. I’ve largely quit buying such expensive records since I’m not really buying th... | |
| Audio as a weapon Any time I call Apple for support, I get Bieberized via music on hold. That is a weapon. Bad neo-soul with heavy auto-tune. Bummer. | |
| Best vinyl purchases based on pressing, studio production, sound quality and enjoyment. Run, don’t walk, to buy a copy of Brian Davison’s every which way on Mercury. Pay for a M- copy (you should be able to find it on Discogs for around $30). Sounds like early Traffic, hard rock, blues shouter, jazz motifs, excellent music, first rat... | |
| Stillpoints - snake oil? I did a shoot-out of a number of different coupling and decoupling devices under the tube rectified power supply of my phono stage several years ago. From cheap to expensive. Some I had on hand, some I bought. Almost every one changed the sound t... | |
| A History of Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Too low a frequency for too long; if the record doesn't rotate, the cavitation effect focused in one spot could cause damage. I think the literature on ultrasonic cleaning for industrial purposes (non-LP) could be a starting place to look at the r... | |
| A History of Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @lewm- Tim, in this article I published, switched from a cheap Chinese unit that crapped out after a year to the P120, see [url]https://thevinylpress.com/timas-diy-rcm-follow-up-2-compelling-changes-improved-results/[/url]. @Terry9-if memory serve... | |
| LP Cleaning My suggestion is that you find a service that has various cleaning methods and if you have duplicate copies of the same record that are in generally the same condition and play equally well, let the service clean with a couple different methods an... | |
| A History of Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @lewm - right now i am not using any surfactant in the US machine since I still am using the KL. But I've had a number of discussions with a manufacturer of ultrasonic equipment for factory lines who, at least in a metal parts (non-LP) context, co... | |
| A History of Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @lewm --I don't think there have been any serious scientific studies of damage. I don't think the article was intended to convince otherwise and agree that anecdotal reports are not a complete answer. Mike did mention to Degritter (@120kHz) but no... | |
| What are your top songs that you use to evaluate a new high end purchase ? I think part of it is listening to a wide range of different material in recording style, scale, range, dynamics and other attributes. In term of what I use, it varies, but one constant is Between the Lines- Janis Ian. I am well familiar with the... |