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Item: CDs various prices includes some classics Location: Melbourne Price: as shown. Item Condition: fresh to VG Reason for selling: triplicates, surplus, Payment Method: Can post to you. Paypal, direct deposit, or collect from Flinders St Station or western suburbs Extra Info: Not every CD here dented the charts. There's some obscurities of interest. The latest Birdy is in the spine view but not in the photos. Pictures:

I've just set up my first vinyl rig. I have a Rega RP3 with an Ortofon Blue 2M (both lightly used). All of my records are brand new. I have not cleaned any of my records, just given them a few revolutions underneath a carbon fibre brush before play. There is definitely some surface noise on all of my records.. what I'm wondering is whether it is outside the normal amount of noise to expect from vinyl. Sometimes there is a light pop or crackle every 5-15 seconds, other times the album will be silent for a track or two. The pops and crackles don't bother me too much, but of course I'd like to minimise them. I have aligned the cartridge using a Rega Stevenson arc protractor, adjusted the counterweight so that the tonearm floats, tracking force measured at 1.82g on digital scales, anti-skate set to around 1 (a lot of people feel that the bias for the Rega arms should be under adjusted). I have tried a range of different values for the anti-skate, but this position seemed to work best. I have experimented with a few different settings but this is where the pops and crackles seem to be minimised. Is it a case of fine-tuning these adjustments until the surface noises go away completely? Or do I just need to accept a certain amount of noise on vinyl? If so, what level of surface noise should I be aiming for? A few pops per track? There are also a few other things I could address.. the turntable is currently on a glass shelving unit (though it is the bottom shelf which is in contact with carpet). I am trying to find a piece of slate or wood that the turntable can sit on. The phono leads are too short for it to sit on the Ikea Lack table next to the TV unit. I know a lot of you clean your vinyl religiously, but I'm not that keen on cleaning my vinyl unless it's absolutely necessary. Would it be worth getting the cartridge and turntable adjusted at a hi-fi shop? I'm 99% sure that I have everything roughly the way it should be.

Item: Indie/alt rock & pop CD collection Location: Adelaide Price: $5 per CD (minimum 5 CD buy) + $1 per disc for postage Item Condition: All excellent Reason for selling: Have all of them in other formats Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, Bank Deposit Extra Info: Sorry but a 5-buy minimum please or the postage just doesn’t work out well. So the minimum transaction is $25 (5 CDs) + $5 (Postage) = $30. Silversun Pickups - Swoon Ray LaMontagne - Trouble The Tallest Man on Earth - Sometimes the blues is just a passing bird The Tallest Man on Earth - The wild hunt Rae & Christian - Sleepwalking Frightened Rabbit - (self titled) (scumbag) Neon Indian - Erana Extrana (scumbag) Feist - The reminder Yacht - See mystery lights (scumbag) Women - (self titled) Vampire Weekend - (self titled) Vampire Weekend - Contra Mercury Rev - Snowflake midnight (scumbag) Mercury Rev - The secret migration The Dears - Gang of losers The phantom band - Checkmate savage (scumbag) Andrew Bird - Noble beast Neil Finn - One nil Four Tet - There is love in you Glasser - Ring Flying Lotus - Until the quiet comes Echo Lake - Wild peace The Drums - Summertime Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - We’re new here (scumbag) Killers - Sam’s town The Mountain Goats - The sunset tree MIA - Kala Holly Throsby - On night The Music Tapes - Music tapes for clouds and tornadoes The Bernard Lakes - Are the roaring night (scumbag) Clinic - Internal wrangler Twin Shadow - Forget (scumbag) Twin Shadow - Confess Warpaint - The fool Woods - Sun and shine Woods - At echo lake Woods - Songs of shame Super Furry Animals - Rings around the world Wooden Ships - Dos White Denim - (self titled) No Age - Everything in between No Age - Nouns Battles - Mirrored Modest Mouse - The moon & antarctica Magic Arm - Make lists do something Okkervil River - Black sheep boy (scumbag) Okkervil River - I am very far Girls - Broken dreams club (olly_10) Girls - album (olly_10) Girls - Father, son, holy ghost (olly_10) Pictures: