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Posted by guy sergeant on
12-20-2005
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Hi Romy,
Due in part to your enthusiasm for the older 78 rpm recordings and in part to my own curiosity I have decided to add the facility to play these to my system. It also helps that an old aunt has given me a large quantity of classical recordings which I feel I should investigate. I have acquired an old LEAK mono pre-amp which has various eq settings for different recording formats including a 78 'English' position. To start with I shall be using the Shure M78 cartridge and see how the results are with that before looking at something more serious.
My question is regarding how you play back these recordings. Does your phono corrector have a different setting (or more than one) for playing back the 78's you have?
It seems there can be many different eq options depending on who produced the disc.
http://www.shellac.org/wams/wequal.html
I'd be interested to know how you deal with it.
best regards,
Guy
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
12-20-2005
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Guy,
I do not know. In my past I made an adapter to my Micro motor to play 78s and used contemporary 78 cartridge and 282 arm and off the shelf phonocorector. I would not call this setup as something that was good but it gave me some opportunities to play with 78s. Although I clearly recognized the huge advantages of 78s but to make it to play right it requires a lot of work and I juts did not go there. So, I would be not defiantly be the person to talk about it. I know Steve the Farmer, who sometimes pop up at this site plays his thousands 78s. I would not say that he went to 78s all the way as it could be, rather he made a comfortably-minimalist setup. However, when I visited him and was listening the 1928 Weingartner’s Beethoven 9th then even in context of the minimum things that Steve did it was still very nice.
The caT
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
12-25-2005
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Also, Guy,
I juts received my favorite Classical Record Collector” magazine (the only one magazine that I subscribe) and they had an advertisement about the FM Acoustics Phono Linearizers. This baby has virtually unlimited capacity to be tuned to any imaginable curve. I never had the FM Acoustics in my own and I know little about them but it looks like what they did might be very convenient for the 78s playing...
The caT
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Posted by guy sergeant on
12-25-2005
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buy abortion pill abortion pill online usa premarin coupon card premarin coupon Hi Romy,
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it. The highly recommended one over here is the Graham Slee Jazz Club. http://www.gspaudio.co.uk/preamps/jazzclub.htm
However I want to try to get the old LEAK tube preamp to work first.
By the way I received the Michelangeli Ravel 2 as a present today. Much,much better than the Bernstein!
best wishes
Guy Sergeant
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Posted by Romy the Cat on
12-25-2005
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Hm, this Graham is certainly sounds attractive but there is something in there that very-very much alerts me. They proposed that this unit “greatly reduced record noise” and THIS is very essential evidence that this phonostage was made by people who have absolutely no know what they are doing and that this phonostage might be very much juts a piece of typical audio garbage.
Why so harsh judgment? Because the redaction of the surface noise by the analog means while preserving the linear response is possible only via a twisting the harmonic balance, making sound “sharp” (musically #). The are great number of the too# phonocorrectors on market and all of them are undauntedly faulty as they are interfere with the propose parabola with wish the note rolling in and out to it’s pitch. Yes, making sound too# does reduce the surface noise but it also, truncating the lower harmonics, remove all complexity from music, converting Sound into the isolated sounds.
Look, even the Stereophile’s clown Michael Framer noted that: "I couldn't believe …the lack of noise from the old shellac”. As far as I concern by making his statement the Framer, unknowingly, stacked a large nail into the coffin of the Graham phonocorrector.
As I can see they have a free trail… that is nice. Get one, play it and pay attention to the fool bloom of second harmonics. If it “intensifies” it and make the first reflection subjectively faster then the sequences of the fundamentals might require then return it back instantaneously…
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
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Posted by Roberts on
12-26-2005
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This research is based on listening to authentic and actual playback mechanisms of the periods and not simply an extrapolation of what "sounds best".
A very convincing reproduction can be made. Not one that considers "audiophile qualities" but musical ones.
Noise filtering however has evolved significantly over the years with high speed processing as to not interfere with the frequency range but to deal with surface impulses and noise levels 10dB below the programme. Surface noise should be dealt with at the disc level, not via eq or filtering in the electronics. Impulse noises can be dealt with electronically with satisfactory results.
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