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Hergest

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  1. Not heard of that one before. Just done a Google and it looks fascinating.
  2. My word, this is entertaining. I haven't had so much fun in the audiophile world for ages. I've only watched the first couple of minutes of the Fremer and that 45 guy on You Tube but ever since then I keep getting bombarded with recommendations for videos about the issue, often with the thumbnail some middle aged guy with a look of shock on his face as if someone has just run over his dog. For what it's worth, I liked the MOFI of old and used to pick up their albums when they were only $5 or $10 above the cost of a standard pressing. I liked their packaging and although, bar Tull's Broadsword And The Beast, I never bought a bad sounding one, I never bought a superlative pressing either. It was more for the thick cardboard and effort put inot the packaging and all that. Since the vinyl revival and stupid inflated prices, one step shenanigans and all that i've steered well clear as prices have gone up and up and up. I love that folks who bought multiple copies to flip and turn records into just some other commodity will likely get burned as I'm sure the price will plummet and I love that so called golden ears are turning out to be no more golden than my brass lugholes. By the way. I have #1 of a Mellencamp album. Bought it just for curiosity around 2000. My original UK pressing wees all over it but it's fun to have. Maybe I should have sold it a fortnight ago? Some fool might have paid 4 figures for it.
  3. I rarely read any of the other posts on Analog Planet that aren't by Fremer, the other stuff is often really poor so I doubt i'll be visiting anymore.
  4. I got it through Rom at Sonic Purity. It was the treat to myself when we sold Sydney and bought the house down here. I've always lusted after the two box Phasemation phonos
  5. I agree with Michael which made me realise I hadn't shown my Phasemation EA 550 yet that I got at the start of the new year.
  6. I've always liked the suspension bands being visible as they give the turntables some character. I do like the new one though but would choose an all black finish. I wonder how much it would cost me if i traded in my Model 10 and Model 20/2?
  7. Why two copies of some album? Are they different pressings?
  8. Correct. No problem in the late 70s, early 80s in that regard. It was the early 70s when the poor recycled vinyl was at its peak due to the lack of new vinyl. Alas the UK took the same hit as the US and there were some very poor pressings for a year.
  9. I have a Hollies greatest hits album from the 60s. All analog, probably no more than 4 track recording and sonically it's a real dog's breakfast. My original copy of Donald Fagen's Nightfly from the 80s, digital recording, multi tracked, wafer thin UK pressing sounds absolutely stellar. You just can't compare one record from a particular decade with another from another decade and draw any conclusions whatsoever
  10. Thinner records have bugger all to do with sound quality. The whole 180, 200 and 220 gm nonsense is nothing more than a marketing ploy. Give me a nice wafer thin pressing from pre 2000s anyday.
  11. Pretty poorly put together site with endless typos and listings in the wrong place, almost as if something has been put through Google Translate. To be honest that would have put me off in the first place but I hope they come through and the album you ordered wasn't the Daft Punk one at $500 (!)
  12. Apologies if i've missed something obvious, but is there a list of exhibitors and brands anywhere? Looking forward to this one, the first time I can sensibly drive rather than having to fly
  13. I doubt we'll be selling any, why sell something in perfect condition?
  14. Sorry but that's not very debatable at all. Damage to a record is as obvious as a poke in the eye, it's unmissable. As I said above, the loss of macro detail on a recording is often the first sign of a stylus wearing and at that point the stylus is doing no damage at all but it's time to look at a replacement. When the replacement is fitted then all that detail is back in spades. The record has suffered no damage. I'm sure there are people who never hear distortion in the same way that people can listen to fm stations slightly out of tune and those that would listen to the very early mp3s with their weird "boinginess" to the sound, but i think those are hardly the target audience of this thread or this site or the linked to article. I'd be truly amazed if anyone on this part of Stereonet and particularly this topic doesn't clearly hear distortion from either a damaged record or incorrectly set up turntable/tonearm/cartridge.
  15. And i don't understand rejection of aural evidence which is surely a much better sign of damage than photographic as we listen to records. There seems to be this idea that a slightly worn stylus suddenly becomes this razor sharp scythe ripping out chunks of vinyl rather than something that if set up correctly as regards alignment and vtf loses no more than macro inner detail and lets the listener know well in advance that it is time to replace and causes no damage to the grooves whatsoever. To replace a very expensive cartridge just because of how it might have changed under a microscope is the height of silliness and it does nothing more than worry newcomers into replacing cartridges much earlier than necessary at often huge expense.
  16. My records are NOT damaged, that's the whole point. I listen to them all the time. If there's any damage then I will hear it.
  17. I've had many cartridges over the years that have lasted well, well in excess of 1000 hours, the nude shibata stylus on my Ortofon Jubilees would sail into the 3000 hour plus bracket with no tracking or sonic degradation whatsoever. The records that I played those cartridges on are still in perfect condition, so the idea that a stylus is gouging out strips of vinyl and wearing out records in such a short time is simply not true. I wish people would stop repeating this nonsense. I don't know why they do. Perhaps to give themselves some extra cachet amongst those new to the hobby and present themselves as some kind of guru? Ownership of a microscope does not an expert make.
  18. That's pretty much how a lot of flat pack furniture has always been constructed. The doors of the house i lived in as a child in the 60s and 70s were constructed in exactly the same way. That's why the feet for the Kallax and the Expedit before were stuck on, not screwed and why Ikea provide exact places to fix bolts to attach the wall plates on as those spots have captured threads integral to the manufacture. Really, any plat pack furniture regardless of what it is shouldn't attempt to be modified.
  19. Depends on the cartridge, in some cases the tonearm damping is essential. The original poster though was asking about the oil that is used for the spindle. That is available from SME direct and he will also need the attachment that connects on to the end of the oil syringe to fill the dash pot. He is best off emailing SME direct as they can furnish him with the exact material he needs and with such a top quality turntable it is silly to not use the products it was engineered for.
  20. I watched 1917 last night. I'd put it off as the trailers I'd seen didn't interest me much and the battlefields looked far too pristine and bright and sunny. The film bared little resemblance to the trailers and I thought it was excellent. The single shot theme worked brilliantly at the beginning and once I got into the storyline it all flowed naturally and didn't grate as I feared it might. Patton popped up as a suggestion afterwards, haven't seen that for years so reckon that might be tonight's viewing.
  21. I had 3 Ortofon Jubilees on the trot, their nude Shibata stylus would last 2500-3000 hours. I've mentioned this often here. None of my records are worn out or damaged by using the Ortofons for that amount of time.
  22. If you open up the photo of the drive system to the full blown up size, the way the twin belts go around the motors and platter are brilliant. It's another of the modern developed turntables I'd love to own and listen to. Love the whole thing.
  23. Fair few years since I bought a new phono stage but I reckon I might have just bought my last one. Hopefully will have it before Christmas, fingers crossed. Phasemation EA-550 to replace my Phase Tech EA-3II. Should match my PP-1000 cartridge pretty well. https://phasemation.com/product/ea-550.html
  24. What's the point though? Play it a couple of times and it's destroyed as it's a lacquer not a vinyl record.
  25. A lot of 45 rpm singles were also a different mix to give them more vibrancy. I'm a big fan of singles and even more so of 12 inch 45s.
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