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1: Vinyl Asylum, I offered it for $50 at a record show - no takers.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-10-23, 16:36:22 (69.121.90.215)
...but of course, eBay has millions of potential buyers. .......
2: Vinyl Asylum, The editors of Stereophile have admitted..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-09-21, 18:16:10 (69.121.90.215)
....they do it for the same reason that the car magazines put a $500K Ferrari on the cover - readers want to ogle the stuff. .......
3: Vinyl Asylum, I keep a listening log (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-09-13, 17:08:05 (69.121.90.215)
I not only know how many LP sides I play, I know what they are. The raw data could be used to produce interesting statistics. .......
4: Vinyl Asylum, I once left my turntable on 45 RPM and.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-08-22, 08:28:01 (69.121.90.215)
...played a Vivaldi record. I was thinking, wow, these historically informed performances are really using brisk tempi, and of course they used a high pitch in the 18th century. .......
5: Vinyl Asylum, Many rare and valuable records were cut-outs.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-06-22, 09:38:56 (69.121.90.215)
....because no one wanted them - at the time. There is a lot of obscure psyche and folk like this. .......
6: Vinyl Asylum, Well, maybe he should try stock picking..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-05-09, 17:22:42 (69.121.90.215)
....if he knows what is going to happen in the future! .......
7: Vinyl Asylum, Probably has an ownership stake.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-04-27, 17:38:28 (69.121.90.215)
....and wants to be his own boss, not an employee. .......
8: Vinyl Asylum, This has to be a mastering difference..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-03-27, 19:35:56 (69.121.90.215)
....because there is no guarantee that the two stampers are in any way related. Even if the starting lacquers were similar, how many mothers did they make from each lacquer, and how many stampers did .......
9: Vinyl Asylum, The hot stamper guy didn't actually do that... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-03-27, 19:32:24 (69.121.90.215)
....because, as he admitted, the same lacquer, mother, and stamper might still sound completely different from record to record. Instead, he actually listened to each record. .......
10: Vinyl Asylum, I've got 2 that need to go to SoundSmith.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2022-03-16, 16:16:05 (69.121.90.215)
....a high-out version, and the low. Did SoundSmith do a good job on yours? The high-output one was damaged by a housecleaner, I'm not sure if it's fixable. .......
11: Vinyl Asylum, If it retails for $1, then the wholesale is.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-12-04, 16:24:16 (69.121.90.215)
$0.00. The cost of stocking and selling the record is greater than the price received. Therefore, collections like this will be rejected by record sellers and stores. You can try to sell the recor .......
12: Vinyl Asylum, For the same price.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-11-30, 06:19:59 (69.121.90.215)
....I found an original Quiex II promo. The cover was a wreck, and the vinyl was filthy, but it cleaned up very well. .......
13: Vinyl Asylum, If there was ever a guy who wanted to fight everyone in the bar.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-11-30, 06:15:29 (69.121.90.215)
....well, do I have to mention any names? I've told him in person, Mikey, why should we care? It just means more vinyl for us - let them have their earbuds and be happy. But once you get up to the .......
14: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Unusual find today. (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-10-30, 17:36:14 (69.121.90.215)
Mercury used white labels, green labels, and gold labels for promos. There are several label variations for the white label, but the green and pink are identical to the stock maroon label with a diff .......
15: Vinyl Asylum, Housing Works on Crosby St? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-10-14, 14:26:40 (69.121.90.215)
They used to pull the good stuff and price it individually, and put it on a box on the front counter. The prices still weren't high - I bought a $50 record for $8 there, about 15 years ago. ::: TOPIC .......
16: Vinyl Asylum, There was a picture! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-10-07, 08:54:26 (69.121.90.215)
He had storage racks full of turntables. You could look it up. .......
17: Vinyl Asylum, Do you remember.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-10-05, 18:25:49 (69.121.90.215)
....the "how many turntables do you own" thread on AudioKarma? I believe collector with the most turntables had over 90. .......
18: Vinyl Asylum, If you've ever met Jonathan Weiss.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-09-29, 17:22:14 (69.121.90.215)
...you'll know he's way out there. Some guys just follow their own vision, and design what speaks to them. .......
19: Vinyl Asylum, I have those records and know well what they're worth (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-09-08, 17:35:52 (69.121.90.215)
Yeah, I've got a Witches' Brew, a Magic Bow, the Starker Bach set (2 copies), a bunch of wideband Deccas, and some original blue-and-silver SAX. But I'm talking about ordinary pressing of ordinary cla .......
20: Vinyl Asylum, Classical vinyl is just about unsalable... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-09-06, 10:08:55 (69.121.90.215)
....to bad you are so far away, I'd give you a couple of crates of decent stuff - Philips, DG, London. .......
21: Vinyl Asylum, Perhaps you might care for the real thing? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-08-18, 16:18:02 (69.121.90.215)
Here is a video by a serious record collector and dealer. .......
22: Vinyl Asylum, Louis Desjardins is an interesting character.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-08-16, 05:58:40 (69.121.90.215)
...and he's as interested in record collecting as he is in turntables. He's definitely one of us, so what do you expect? .......
23: Vinyl Asylum, Apparently, the VPI 16.5 is still made... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-07-24, 17:18:03 (69.121.90.215)
...as new ones are offered by several major online retailers. .......
24: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Confused at Discogs - Generic Sleeve (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-06-17, 16:27:20 (69.121.90.215)
Why not just ask the vendor? Surely he will have the answer. It does sound a little strange, unless it's a pre-release test pressing in a blank white sleeve. .......
25: Vinyl Asylum, The labor in cartridges (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-05-20, 07:13:21 (69.121.90.215)
There was a piece in TAS a while back about Koetsu. Apparently, Fumihiko Sungano comes in every day and makes one cartridge in the morning, and one in the afternoon. He mounts each cartridge in a to .......
26: Vinyl Asylum, Ebay has switched to managed payments (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-05-06, 15:57:49 (69.121.90.215)
Ebay just deposits the money in your bank account - after they take their cut, of course. .......
27: Vinyl Asylum, They're getting fantastic prices on eBay.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-05-06, 09:18:35 (69.121.90.215)
....in many cases, higher than the highest Discogs price. I suggest you try that, someone will buy them. The audio mart guys are not the customer base you want to target, they're living in the past. .......
28: Vinyl Asylum, And then there's this.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-04-29, 08:34:28 (69.121.90.215)
....nice video, too. .......
29: Vinyl Asylum, There were two guys in Europe about 10 years ago.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-03-31, 18:26:39 (69.121.90.215)
....who worked in a pressing plant. They would stay behind at night and produce unauthorized pressings on colored vinyl, which they proceeded to sell on eBay. After a while they were caught and turn .......
30: Vinyl Asylum, Is the anti-skate belt intact? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-03-09, 09:18:56 (69.121.90.215)
Unfortunately, there is no replacement available, although there are various kludges. .......
31: Vinyl Asylum, I sell classical for $1.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-03-04, 09:05:50 (69.121.90.215)
...and not budget labels either, good clean Philips, London, and DG. .......
32: Vinyl Asylum, When I put out a $3 box of good stuff.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-03-02, 14:26:59 (69.121.90.215)
...no one buys. All the guys who come to record shows are looking for the rare stuff. .......
33: Vinyl Asylum, If you cannot view the obituary because you are not a subscriber... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-02-19, 19:53:11 (69.121.90.215)
....it comes up in outline.com. .......
34: Vinyl Asylum, Forget individual records.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-02-18, 13:44:16 (69.121.90.215)
...I once couldn't find my entire blues section! .......
35: Vinyl Asylum, I am just the opposite.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-02-14, 05:48:27 (69.121.90.215)
....the playing in Jack Orion is fantastic. Every time I listen, I hear a more subtle details in the performance. .......
36: Vinyl Asylum, On eBay..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-02-07, 18:07:11 (69.121.90.215)
...one sold at auction for $1756. But eBay attracts a worldwide customer base - if you want to sell locally, you probably won't get that much. .......
37: Vinyl Asylum, That is not a coincidence (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2021-02-06, 16:21:53 (69.121.90.215)
RCA deliberately picked 45 after Columbia came out with the 33. .......
38: Vinyl Asylum, I rate the EC albums (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-10-31, 16:59:36 (69.121.90.215)
My top five: 1. Armed Forces 2. My Aim is True 3. This Year's Model 4. King of America 5. Trust Just my personal take, others may differ. .......
39: Vinyl Asylum, I have reached Goodbye Cruel World... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-10-30, 14:10:58 (69.121.90.215)
...and it appears that Elvis lost all his talent after Punch the Clock. Fortunately, he snapped right back to normal with Imperial Bedroom. .......
40: Vinyl Asylum, I started by playing My Aim is True.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-10-29, 10:00:25 (69.121.90.215)
...and just kept going - if you have them all, why not play them all? Out of the first six studio albums I've played so far, five are original UK pressings - Trust, unfortunately is not. The US Colu .......
41: Vinyl Asylum, An original mono on New Jazz goes for about $300... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-10-19, 17:08:44 (69.121.90.215)
...in nice condition (VG+/VG+). The $500 one had better be a beautiful coipy. .......
42: Vinyl Asylum, Late-model used is probably your best bang for the buck (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-09-30, 05:37:30 (69.121.90.215)
You might be able to pick a turntable from the past five years that originally sold for up to $4000, maybe with a good cartridge mounted. This level of table is very well-built, and should last anoth .......
43: Vinyl Asylum, This is an entirely different problem (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-09-10, 06:52:26 (69.121.90.215)
Nobody has used that type of plastic on record sleeve for decades, because it leeched onto the records. Modern record sleeves use safe plastics that will not damage records. The OP is complaining not .......
44: Vinyl Asylum, Acoustic Sounds made a video about Disc Doctor.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-08-31, 10:05:41 (69.121.90.215)
....where Duane discusses the history of his record-cleaning products. Acoustic Sounds purchased Disc Doctor in spring of 2019. .......
45: Vinyl Asylum, On the Discogs forums.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-08-27, 07:16:14 (69.121.90.215)
...there is an App forum for discussing features and problems of the app. If you ask your question there, you will probably get some sort of immediate response. .......
46: Vinyl Asylum, I do have all those (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-06-25, 16:07:27 (69.121.90.215)
Yes, I have all the officially released albums, besides the promos and unofficial titles. I decided to play Live Sparks instead of the studio album, because I like the feel of the live albums; Yes Li .......
47: Vinyl Asylum, Of course I've got the Parkarilla.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-06-25, 15:59:21 (69.121.90.215)
...as I only played 9 out of 26. I just like the other live albums better, particular Live Alone in America and Live in Japan. .......
48: Vinyl Asylum, Of course I've got "Heat Treatment." (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-06-24, 17:40:58 (69.121.90.215)
As I said in the post, I only played 9 out of 26. However, many of the songs on Heat Treatment get really good performances on the live albums I played, better than the studio versions. There are f .......
49: Vinyl Asylum, What's the point of having a large collection of a single artist... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-06-24, 12:24:00 (69.121.90.215)
...if you never play any of it? Are your old favourites now forgotten? As Graham himself would say, I'm going to play them right now - , well, actually, over the past week: Graham Parker - Struck By .......
50: Vinyl Asylum, Study in Brown was released in 1955.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-06-12, 11:40:52 (69.121.90.215)
....on EmArcy Records, according to the Wikipedia entry. .......
51: Vinyl Asylum, You are probably hearing what the cartridge really sounds like (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-04-09, 11:47:40 (69.121.90.215)
These super-accurate pieces of equipment clarify what the whole chain is doing - the recording, the mastering, the cartridge, and everything that comes after. If you want warmer, then you'll need a .......
52: Vinyl Asylum, The real problem with those labels... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-04-09, 06:09:26 (69.121.90.215)
...is not the copyright issues. Most of these guys get their 'master tape' by ordering the CD from Amazon. You might as well order it yourself, and cut out the middleman. High-quality reissue label .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, It does, but I never actually listened to it! (NT) (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-04-05, 20:07:15 (69.121.90.215)
. .......
54: Vinyl Asylum, There's a great version of 'Sin City' on... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-04-04, 05:45:53 (69.121.90.215)
the 'No Depression' album by Uncle Tupelo, which is rather hard to find on vinyl. .......
55: Vinyl Asylum, The Russians sold that tape to every label that asked... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-04-03, 05:23:41 (69.121.90.215)
....so there are numerous releases in genuine mono. I have the Music Appreciation Society version. .......
56: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, I have an analogue UK pressing.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-03-28, 21:40:00 (69.121.90.215)
....a reissue from the early 70s. The originals were on EMI SAX and are very expensive, but the reissue box SLS 788 is not expensive or hard to find, as it was in print for quite a while. My copy has .......
57: Vinyl Asylum, Tonight I decided to play.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-03-20, 20:34:25 (69.121.90.215)
...Richard Thompson's 'Thirteen Rivers', but got bored after the first record, so I switched to my reissue of 'Carol of Harvest', which is a fantastic German psyche record from the late 70s. If you' .......
58: Vinyl Asylum, The original is really great... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-03-17, 16:42:02 (69.121.90.215)
....and RCA-pressed black-label Vanguard stereos are pretty common. .......
59: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, he should probably raise the arm a little.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-03-16, 14:50:13 (69.121.90.215)
...and see if the problem goes away. If he does, then he'll at least know what the problem is. The solution is up to him. .......
60: Vinyl Asylum, I am play-grading records (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-03-10, 19:59:06 (69.121.90.215)
I listened to a Mofi Sgt Pepper's and the Furtwangler Urania. Both graded VG+, with some surface noise here and there but nothing too annoying. .......
61: Vinyl Asylum, Expensive audiophile reissues vs cheap mass-market reissues (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2020-02-20, 07:26:47 (69.121.90.215)
We're really talking two different things here. Many audiophile reissues don't come out well, but they're at least trying. The cheap mass-market reissues are just stock for stores to sell. The top r .......
62: Vinyl Asylum, I suggest you look at manufacturers... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-12-22, 08:14:53 (69.121.90.215)
...who are well-known for helping their customers, and doing whatever it takes to make sure they get what they paid for. .......
63: Vinyl Asylum, Pro-Ject is famous for.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-12-21, 17:01:16 (69.121.90.215)
....lack of quality control. Most of their turntables work correctly, but some have problems. Unlike many vendors, they don't support their users very well, so if you didn't buy your unit from a bri .......
64: Vinyl Asylum, You can easily play this game yourself (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-11-19, 08:36:59 (69.121.90.215)
Go to eBay, vinyl records, sold items, and sort each genre by price highest first: Jazz: Sun Ra - The Nubians - Plutonia - $4824 Rock: Russ Kunkel - Things to Come - $7000 Folk: Vashti Bunyan - Diamon .......
65: Vinyl Asylum, The price in 1955 was.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-11-12, 18:05:26 (69.121.90.215)
....£250, or $700 at the 1955 exchange rates. Applying the UK inflation calculator, that would be £6500 today. Applying the US inflation calculator, that's $6700. That doesn't include the SME tonea .......
66: Vinyl Asylum, This makes it easier to do the mono mix (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-11-07, 06:07:32 (69.121.90.215)
When they had only two channels, and the mono version outsold the stereo 10 to 1, they had to think about the mono mix. If they recorded two channels in true stereo, they would have difficulty getting .......
67: Vinyl Asylum, The Chicago show is the best overall show (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-10-17, 19:54:42 (69.121.90.215)
They have the most rooms full of the latest equipment, and they are reachable from nearly any part of the country. .......
68: Vinyl Asylum, You don't really have a problem.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-10-13, 19:01:57 (69.121.90.215)
...until you have to take crates of records out of your bathtub to take a bath... .......
69: Vinyl Asylum, Hmmm....maybe they bought.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-10-03, 18:39:55 (69.121.90.215)
....the files from HDTracks. .......
70: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, they make them from the CD..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-10-01, 16:55:13 (69.121.90.215)
...since the European Union had declared recordings more than 50 years old free from copyright restrictions. I say 'had', because in 2012 they woke up and realized that the first Beatles album was ab .......
71: Vinyl Asylum, It was recorded live to tape..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-09-23, 20:25:00 (69.121.90.215)
.....without any post-production. However, instead of mastering the LPs from the master tape, they used a second generation copy. If any record could use an audiophile reissue, it is this one- assum .......
72: Vinyl Asylum, If you want to get reviews.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-09-17, 16:58:01 (69.121.90.215)
...you have to be willing to send out review samples. I could see why cartridge makers would be very dubious about that sort of thing. .......
73: Vinyl Asylum, It is not surprising.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-09-16, 09:31:39 (69.121.90.215)
....that he trimmed a few years off his age for professional purposes - who wants to see a rising young rock star who is nearly 40? The graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1963, he's in the y .......
74: Vinyl Asylum, It's a mixed lot, they will be market price for large collections... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-08-09, 07:12:30 (69.123.160.32)
....same as everybody else gets for this sort of stuff. Record dealers will make lowball offers, and those who want some of the records for themselves will bid somewhat higher. The discount for large .......
75: Vinyl Asylum, This particular record is a DG,,,, (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-08-09, 07:08:19 (69.123.160.32)
,,,so you have to take the pressing they offer. .......
76: Vinyl Asylum, If you put it on your Discogs want list.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-08-09, 07:04:55 (69.123.160.32)
....that tells sellers there is a market for it, and listings are more likely to show up. You will be notified by email when a record on your want list is offered. .......
77: Vinyl Asylum, The ones made for Communist Party officials.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-08-05, 20:59:36 (69.123.160.32)
...and for foreign buyers were quite well-pressed. The ones sold in stores to ordinary people were not as good. I've never figured out the hierarchy of label colors, but the dark blue labels seem to .......
78: Vinyl Asylum, This comes up a lot in classical (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-07-18, 17:27:22 (69.123.160.32)
Both the Deccas and the Londons were pressed in the same plant from the same stampers, so why does the Decca always sound so much better? Try this: take a good Decca wideband and a London blueback fro .......
79: Vinyl Asylum, Never heard of them..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-06-23, 19:20:21 (69.123.160.32)
....and let's keep it that way! .......
80: Vinyl Asylum, The Kempe EMI traversal..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-06-10, 16:52:01 (69.123.160.32)
....is really the set to get, IMO. There is a ten-LP box that is quite a value if you find one. .......
81: Vinyl Asylum, Such lots are usually the records that didn't sell.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-04-16, 16:43:29 (69.123.160.32)
.....at a record store. The good ones were purchased by customers, this is what's left, we're dumping them and we're done! Is it impossible to have 93,000 records in a lot without a single good one? .......
82: Vinyl Asylum, Discogs shows 154 versions - which one did you get? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-04-07, 19:55:27 (69.123.160.32)
It may be a bit of a challenge to identify it.... .......
83: Vinyl Asylum, Nope, it was strictly a listen, compare, learn.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-04-05, 07:04:53 (69.123.160.32)
....session. From the Audio Technica AT95E to the Koetsu Rosewood Signature, we heard 'em all. It was amazing how different the sonic signatures were. .......
84: Vinyl Asylum, For a cartridge shootout session.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-04-05, 05:16:56 (69.123.160.32)
....my audio club had a special record pressed. It contained 60 seconds of pink noise for level calibration, followed by five 90-second test tracks. We played this record with about twenty different .......
85: Vinyl Asylum, The plain-jacketed ones were the budget line of French Harmonia Mundi (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-04-01, 05:20:21 (69.123.160.32)
The first thing to know is that there exists both French Harmonia Mundi and German Harmonia Mundi, two entirely different labels. French Harmonia Mundi did have a budget line, but the bulk of their be .......
86: Vinyl Asylum, If you have ever heard a double-DSD direct rip..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-03-27, 19:32:16 (69.123.160.32)
....of an 30-ips analogue master tape, you'll conclude that CDs and LPs are both lacking. The record companies will never let these get into circulation, they're too good. .......
87: Vinyl Asylum, Gilbert Kong..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-03-13, 20:47:36 (69.123.160.32)
...worked at Mercury, and later at Masterdisk when it was spun off as a separate company. .......
88: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Recent spins - March so far (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-03-13, 20:41:07 (69.123.160.32)
03/01/19 Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street 03/02/19 John Coltrane - Giant Steps Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs... 03/03/19 Bill Evans - Quintessence 03/04/19 Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymi .......
89: Vinyl Asylum, The RIAA statistics..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-03-04, 12:59:02 (69.123.160.32)
....fail to capture a large part of the market. Major online sellers like Acoustic Sounds and Music Direct don't report their sales. .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, Private Stock copies are not that uncommon..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-25, 17:21:42 (69.123.160.32)
....and were widely available during the 80s and 90s for a few bucks. .......
91: Vinyl Asylum, Usually, records like that.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-19, 18:02:03 (69.123.160.32)
...are made without regard to sound quality. It's colored vinyl! It's a rare collectible! Are you going to nitpick just because it sounds bad? .......
92: Vinyl Asylum, Well, what would you say to.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-12, 09:59:54 (69.123.160.32)
The Owl Service? Ornette Coleman? Pere Ubu? Allan Pettersson? This music was made because somebody might like it.....they hope! .......
93: Vinyl Asylum, Never buy reissues by a major.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-11, 08:28:29 (69.123.160.32)
...they have forgotten how to make records. If you want to hear a good Decca reissue, get a Speaker's Corner. .......
94: Vinyl Asylum, They've always sounded strange to me (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-08, 19:11:33 (69.123.160.32)
The sound is very good in certain respects, but unnatural. Strings, in particular, sound like very well-recorded synthesizers rather than real strings. .......
95: Vinyl Asylum, I'm surprised that Virgin let them get away.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-02-06, 20:30:59 (69.123.160.32)
....with that parody of their label! .......
96: Vinyl Asylum, When I worked..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-31, 18:44:52 (69.123.160.32)
....I would get up and log on at 7 AM, and appear as online and available to hundreds of people in the US, India, and the UK. I would then make breakfast, and listen to a record while eating it. Of c .......
97: Vinyl Asylum, Good thing we don't have any women here.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-27, 17:05:31 (69.123.160.32)
...who might take exception to this sort of thread! .......
98: Vinyl Asylum, Regas are notorious for running fast..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-23, 19:12:08 (69.123.160.32)
...and there have been many complaints about it. Nearly every reviewer who has measured one has found it a little bit faster than 33 1/3. .......
99: Vinyl Asylum, The article doesn't understand what they were doing (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-21, 19:02:34 (69.123.160.32)
They were making exact copies of rare Northern Soul records, the 7" singles that sell for thousands of dollars each, and selling them to collectors on eBay. This was not routine copyright infringemen .......
100: Vinyl Asylum, Brinkmann is a highly respected turntable manufacturer.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-08, 11:37:52 (69.123.160.32)
...so I would consider what he has to say. However, if you use a clamp and an outer ring, there really shouldn't be any resonances at all. .......
101: Vinyl Asylum, Your record store is paying too much... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2019-01-06, 05:29:43 (69.123.160.32)
...they should know that wholesale is 10% of retail! .......
102: Vinyl Asylum, My 'to be retipped' inventory (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-12-18, 16:17:14 (69.123.160.32)
Benz Reference 2 van den Hul one Dynavector 20X2 I'm not going to bother with the Denon 103, it's not really very compatible with my tonearm. .......
103: Vinyl Asylum, Recommended tracking force..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-12-15, 16:27:12 (69.123.160.32)
....there, that's one spec everyone should be looking at, preferably before you mount the cartridge! .......
104: Vinyl Asylum, The Jim Davis empire! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-12-02, 17:32:51 (69.123.160.32)
He has bought BAT, he has bought MoFi. He has produced a new line of turntables and cartridges under the MoFi brand. He has a huge warehouse and a large crew of employees. And he started as one man .......
105: Vinyl Asylum, I'll ask around..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-28, 11:24:45 (69.123.160.32)
...and see if I can locate him. .......
106: Vinyl Asylum, Just for those who don't know... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-08, 07:32:34 (69.123.160.32)
...the HNH versions are US reissues of the UK Lyritas. They can be quite good, and they easier to find in the US> .......
107: Vinyl Asylum, But in Japan.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-08, 07:29:40 (69.123.160.32)
....things may be different. Maybe. .......
108: Vinyl Asylum, Lyrita records were pressed..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-03, 13:06:15 (69.123.160.32)
....at first by Decca, then by Nimbus, and at the end by EMI. If you look at the prices of the highly collectible ones, such as SRCS 109, you will see that collectors are willing to pay a more for a .......
109: Vinyl Asylum, Well, you won't find many of the people.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-03, 06:52:47 (69.123.160.32)
....who buy and use this level of equipment posting here, that's for sure. But they do exist. If you had a $500K plus system, you'd probably be using one of these cartridges too.! Since I have actual .......
110: Vinyl Asylum, Until, of course....... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-11-01, 15:51:59 (69.123.160.32)
....a major collector dies, and a huge collection comes on the market. "What? He had six different pressings of Saxophone Colossus?" .......
111: Vinyl Asylum, Heavier vinyl is more likely to warp.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-10-10, 16:07:42 (69.123.160.32)
...when being taken out of the press. It can warp under its own weight when warm. .......
112: Vinyl Asylum, My experience (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-27, 09:30:34 (69.123.160.32)
For jazz, I would say Music Matters: Good, but very expensive Acoustic Sounds: High quality, more mainstream Mass market legit: Hit or miss, lower pressing quality Italian semi-legit: Made from the CD .......
113: Vinyl Asylum, Finzi, Pettersson, Szymanowski? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-21, 18:16:43 (69.123.160.32)
What is your fancy? With the internet, you can listen on YouTube and order whatever LPs or CDs you like. .......
114: Vinyl Asylum, Sumiko is offering a new series..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-16, 14:28:30 (69.123.160.32)
...so maybe they have wised up. .......
115: Vinyl Asylum, RE: The French Touch - New AP Living Stereo reissue (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-13, 20:51:04 (69.123.160.32)
My copy of this is not in very good condition - it is a very expensive record, and it is hard to find a good copy. I just may buy the reissue. .......
116: Vinyl Asylum, Buy two, and... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-07, 17:18:42 (69.123.160.32)
....wait until they're unobtainable. Then sell one copy for $250! .......
117: Vinyl Asylum, Yeah, I would expect most of them to be played.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-03, 07:32:02 (69.123.160.32)
....once or twice, and then filed on the shelf. This album was not what Lou Reed fans were expecting. .......
118: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Lou Reed 'Berlin' Sony or MOV reissue (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-03, 05:05:03 (69.123.160.32)
I am surprised to hear that originals are 'heavily used' - I would not have expected that for this title, which was not big with 14-year-old boys. .......
119: Vinyl Asylum, If you are interested in Britfolk... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-09-01, 05:09:03 (69.123.160.32)
....you might want to look at the Britfolk thread I started in the music forum of AudioKarma. We're up to 175 pages, and I've learned about some artists I had never heard of. .......
120: Vinyl Asylum, Not to be a party pooper..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-08-31, 19:52:05 (69.123.160.32)
...but the Gold Seal reissues are really crappy. They sound like they used a cassette for the master tape - no dynamics or detail. .......
121: Vinyl Asylum, Wilkinson did the actual recording.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-08-27, 16:59:15 (69.123.160.32)
....but the mix waas done by the producer, in this case Charles Gerhardt. .......
122: Vinyl Asylum, The RCAs originally issued as Dynagroove pressings (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-08-22, 04:14:33 (69.123.160.32)
These records were recorded using the same recording techniques as the earlier RCAs, but were crippled in the mastering. I would particularly like to see the Leinsdorf Prokovieff series. One of my fa .......
123: Vinyl Asylum, IMO.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-08-14, 14:34:49 (69.123.160.32)
...the performance is completely wrong-headed. Mahler played by a rigid martinet is not my cup of tea. For the Mahler 4th, I like: Horenstein/London Philharmonic Klemperer/Philharmonia Solti/Concertg .......
124: Vinyl Asylum, The CBS pressings were not very good..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-25, 11:27:54 (69.123.160.32)
....and the UK originals really kill them. They're not that expensive, either, as the band sold a lot of copies in the UK. .......
125: Vinyl Asylum, I would get the Aries without hesitation (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-25, 11:26:34 (69.123.160.32)
I feel the build quality of VPI turntables is much higher than the Pro-Ject/Music Hall tables built in the Czech Republic. If you get one that is relatively recent, and is working properly, it should .......
126: Vinyl Asylum, I mainly patronized Revolver, Subterranean, Venus.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-20, 19:11:21 (69.123.160.32)
...and of course the Tower annex. Yes, many of my records still have stickers on them from these stores. There is no mention of Pyramid, which was more of a private club for crazy record collectors t .......
127: Vinyl Asylum, I don't think that is a UK pressing (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-18, 18:27:41 (69.123.160.32)
That style of label was used only on American-pressed Deccas....and there is no Decca mastering engineer who used the letter 'S'. All genuine UK-pressed Londons say 'Made in England' somewhere on the .......
128: Vinyl Asylum, It was available new in the US in 1992..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-17, 13:22:59 (69.123.160.32)
....for those who chose to order one, or went to an audiophile record store that stocked vinyl. .......
129: Vinyl Asylum, I have matching pairs of the London and the Decca LPs.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-16, 05:02:40 (69.123.160.32)
...made from stampers cut from the same lacquer. I use these to convince sceptics. See, same lacquer, both pressed in the UK, now let's listen.... .......
130: Vinyl Asylum, The originals are... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-07-15, 21:00:51 (69.123.160.32)
...for the Angel, UK EMI ASD 478, and for the Kertesz Dvorak, UK Decca SXL 6257. I'm sure an EMI original would sound better than the Angel, but they are quite expensive. The Kertesz Deccas, however .......
131: Vinyl Asylum, Cut-outs were cheap.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-06-26, 09:46:55 (69.123.160.32)
....because they'd already been manufactured. Moreover, the artists and the songwriters were not entitled to royalties from cut-outs. It was practically pure profit for the record company. ::: TOPIC .......
132: Vinyl Asylum, I keep a spreadsheet..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-06-17, 18:21:39 (69.123.160.32)
....so I can say with confidence that I have played 504 sides from 233 LPs and 2-record sets year to date. Jazz seems to be up substantially, while classical and Britfolk is slightly down relative to .......
133: Vinyl Asylum, RE: New VPI Tonearm? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-06-11, 17:11:30 (69.123.160.32)
It was supposed to be demo'd at the last audio society meeting, but it wasn't ready yet. I'll let you know if I get to hear it. .......
134: Vinyl Asylum, The original issue was EMI ASD 343.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-05-05, 15:40:54 (69.123.160.32)
...which came out in 1959. It would be an interesting comparison - it always helps if the tape is fresh. .......
135: Vinyl Asylum, Does anyone know.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-22, 18:56:34 (69.123.160.32)
...if the Brooklyn Expo Center has parking? The WFMU web site is not very informative on this matter. .......
136: Vinyl Asylum, Bought it in 1976.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-22, 18:55:40 (69.123.160.32)
...only $4.79 at Cutler's. You had to be there.... .......
137: Vinyl Asylum, I would be more concerned.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-16, 15:51:21 (69.123.160.32)
....that they get their 'master' by ordering the CD from Amazon. .......
138: Vinyl Asylum, You might want to check out.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-16, 10:13:50 (69.123.160.32)
....how Waxtime operates. The following discussion might prove illuminating: https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/700836 .......
139: Vinyl Asylum, 57 = 20 * log(X/.5) (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-15, 20:10:31 (69.123.160.32)
Where X is the output from your phono stage in millivolts. So about 354 mV into your line stage, should be OK. .......
140: Vinyl Asylum, Three nice copies on Discogs, $85-100 (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-04-06, 06:15:11 (69.123.160.32)
I can believe it's rare, how many would they have sold in 2004? That's about the price I would expect. .......
141: Vinyl Asylum, I found a copy in my collection.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-03-18, 07:29:08 (69.123.160.32)
...an original 75 Rock Atlantic. I don't recall where I bought it, or whether I ever listened to it. I'll have to put it aside to give it a serious listen. .......
142: Vinyl Asylum, Found another one in my collection - Miles Davis! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-03-14, 17:45:06 (69.123.160.32)
I can't say where they come from, I've bought so many records and just shoved them into boxes. This record is a six-eye mono of the Miles Davis classic, 'Round About Midnight, Columbia CL-949. I can' .......
143: Vinyl Asylum, Those are two of the truly great jazz records..... . . (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-03-14, 13:51:09 (69.123.160.32)
....of all time. You're lucky it was those two. .......
144: Vinyl Asylum, You need to have the right temperament.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-03-09, 05:24:01 (69.123.160.32)
....to be a successful moderator. They're fighting? OK, let them fight for a bit, blow off a little steam. .......
145: Vinyl Asylum, RE: That shipping cost does seem a bit strange... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-02-26, 09:25:54 (69.123.160.32)
...why don't you call them and ask about it? .......
146: Vinyl Asylum, Installation (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-02-06, 15:40:03 (69.123.160.32)
That tonearm can't be taken off the TT to mount a cartridge, right? What strategy do you use to get the cartridge on without destroying it? I was thinking of making a device that would hold the arm i .......
147: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Ay, caramba! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-02-04, 08:22:18 (69.123.160.32)
I have the same problem. I'm always finding interesting and valuable records in my collection that I have no memory of acquiring. Maybe they just walk in the door and jump onto the shelves? ::: TOP .......
148: Vinyl Asylum, The Britten set is rather interesting.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-01-26, 19:08:52 (69.123.160.32)
...thoroughly modern, but very musical indeed. .......
149: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, you are right... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-01-16, 15:59:31 (69.123.160.32)
...that's what it is. It has a deep groove, a Bergenfield address, and an RVG stamp....but no ear. Prestige didn't do ears. Parts of it play completely clean, but there are ticks in some cuts. The re .......
150: Vinyl Asylum, The Nautilus.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-01-16, 10:39:53 (69.123.160.32)
....is from a digital master, and is widely considered to be inferior to the original pressing. .......
151: Vinyl Asylum, I am always finding things in my collection (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2018-01-16, 10:37:56 (69.123.160.32)
A few months ago, I went to play a Dylan album and discovered I had the Sundazed mono reissue of Bringing It All Back Home - not a clue where that one came from. And last week, I was looking through t .......
152: Vinyl Asylum, The Horenstein Dvorak 9th (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-12-18, 19:12:18 (69.123.160.32)
This was in a very rare Reader's Digest set that is almost impossible to find. It was recorded by Ken Wilkinson using Decca equipment, and originally cut by RCA and pressed at their Indianapolis plan .......
153: Vinyl Asylum, If you bought it new 1980-85.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-12-15, 15:01:11 (69.123.160.32)
....then its a reissue of little value. The high priced copies have: 1. 47 West 63rd St on the label 2. A deep groove in the label area 3. An RVG stamp in the deadwax 4. An 'ear' in the deadwax, which .......
154: Vinyl Asylum, Speaker's Corner (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-12-13, 15:57:49 (69.123.160.32)
I was once looking at a Speaker's Corner reissue of the Mehta Planets, and discovered they had even copied the original deadwax matrix, including Tony Hawkins' engineer code, which is 'K'. I was thi .......
155: Vinyl Asylum, Actually, there are a few guys like this (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-12-02, 16:30:32 (69.123.160.32)
In my audio-buddy circle, we do know a few fellows who spent all their money on audio components when they were making a good living, and now are in their 60s or 70s, and have no money and no job. ::: .......
156: Vinyl Asylum, Have you heard the Lt Kije..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-11-30, 14:19:17 (69.123.160.32)
....with the original singing restored? It is a fine performance in very good sound. Other side is Second Symphony. .......
157: Vinyl Asylum, RE: New set of RCA Living Stereo to be issued (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-11-30, 14:13:09 (69.123.160.32)
Yes, I heard about these from Chad Kassem at the New York audio show. I have been trying to interest him in reissuing some of the better Dynagrooves, but so far no luck. The Leinsdorf Prokofiev serie .......
158: Vinyl Asylum, The final selection.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-11-30, 05:13:02 (69.123.160.32)
....seems to get a rather negative review from the dog! .......
159: Vinyl Asylum, One halloween I was playing Witches Brew, and.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-10-31, 17:17:03 (69.123.160.32)
....the stylus flew off my Dynavector halfway through the record! Since then, I have always been careful only to play CDs on Halloween. I know, but it's only one day a year.... .......
160: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Vintage Kenwood 9010 turntable (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-10-24, 14:46:44 (69.123.160.32)
Japanese electricity is 100 volts, either 60 cycles in the south and 50 cycles in the north. They use similar plugs. So maybe it does work here. Did you ask the seller explicitly? .......
161: Vinyl Asylum, Two points (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-10-19, 10:21:20 (69.123.160.32)
The collectors of the type of music that ERC reissues are not mainstream audiophiles. Mainstream audiophiles want big, splashy orchestral music that doesn't have to be an important performance, just .......
162: Vinyl Asylum, Fremer's big problem is.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-10-19, 07:57:10 (69.123.160.32)
....not the free review copies, but the fact that he doesn't have any originals to compare them to. If he gets a Led Zep reissue, he can pull out a Robert Ludwig mastering first pressing and see how .......
163: Vinyl Asylum, How could any sort of dealer.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-10-15, 11:45:47 (69.123.160.32)
....make a mistake like that? He must be known it was somewhat valuable, so why didn't he research it? Every dealer I've known looks up records and tries to get the max price. .......
164: Vinyl Asylum, A UK record from the sixties in the 'loose baggie'.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-09-30, 19:52:51 (69.123.160.32)
....style of sealing would also be rather hard to replicate on modern sealing equipment. .......
165: Vinyl Asylum, No inner sleeves? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-09-27, 15:39:23 (69.123.160.32)
Yeah, we know how to cut costs! This is typical of many schlock sub-labels. The majors called them something else because they didn't want to be associated with them. I believe Columbia also had a .......
166: Vinyl Asylum, I recommend the early stuff..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-09-14, 16:03:54 (69.123.160.32)
....on Vanguard - Doc Watson, Doc Watson and Son, Southbound. Look for early black-label pressings from the RCA Indianapolis plant - they are fantastic. .......
167: Vinyl Asylum, According to a post in organissimo.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-08-14, 06:29:39 (69.121.91.149)
"Nitty Gritty's owner and operator suffered a career ending stroke a few months back and the decision was made to shutter the company." That's the problem with single-owner companies. They never hav .......
168: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, six months is the official statutory period.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-08-13, 18:25:05 (69.121.91.149)
...for return items. Few people understand the parts of the Uniform Commercial Code that apply to checking accounts. .......
169: Vinyl Asylum, They don't seem to try to get reviews... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-08-02, 17:15:56 (69.121.91.149)
.....and don't do any advertising. If you don't beat your own drum, nobody else will do it for you. Plus, they do not sell through the major retailers like Music Direct or Elusive Disc. ::: TOPIC:: .......
170: Vinyl Asylum, Some of the 'audiophile' reissues of this LP.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-07-31, 07:46:05 (69.121.91.149)
....have very strange sound, not at all like the original. For best results, look for a clean early original, they are not that expensive. .......
171: Vinyl Asylum, If we confine ourselves strictly to rock/pop... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-07-29, 06:16:14 (69.121.91.149)
....and leave out jazz, Britfolk, and reggae, sticking to the classic rock era, then: Beatles: Revolver Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Waters Elvis Costello: Ar .......
172: Vinyl Asylum, The problem with Music Direct owning MoFi..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-07-11, 17:14:02 (173.3.12.139)
....is that the vendors of other turntables they sell are not going to be too happy, particularly if they are aggressive in selling their own turntable to their customers. As a direct manufacturer/se .......
173: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Are you sure about tax treatment ? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-07-10, 20:04:47 (173.3.12.139)
Not so. If you sell personal items for less than you paid for them, no tax is due. However, if you sell for more than you paid, then you should report it as a capital gain on a collectible, taxed at .......
174: Vinyl Asylum, Some people use bookbinder's tape.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-07-04, 09:05:22 (173.3.12.139)
...or other specialized materials. There is really no solution that will please everyone. With a collectible title, the usual thing is to put the record with the inner sleeve in a blank sleeve, and p .......
175: Vinyl Asylum, They were apparently contracting out (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-29, 09:24:10 (173.3.12.139)
"Years of double-digit growth in record sales have left vinyl press plants in the U.S., Japan, and elsewhere struggling to meet demand. Sony's plan reportedly includes the possibility that it will pre .......
176: Vinyl Asylum, You would have to be an experienced classical dealer..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-25, 15:56:25 (173.3.12.139)
....who knows exactly how much each pressing of each record sells for on eBay or Discogs. I agree a general-market record dealer wouldn't want this kind of collection at all, since he doesn't have th .......
177: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Help with pricing a record collection (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-25, 06:48:19 (173.3.12.139)
Prices on these sorts of common audiophile records are way down from the peak. Except for the very top records, they sell for 10-20% of what they used to sell for - and that is retail. The wholesale .......
178: Vinyl Asylum, Unfortunately.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-13, 19:40:43 (67.83.16.145)
...at the meeting where I spent some time gabbing with Harry in the kitchen, he brought and played a Lyra Atlas, the $13,000 top-of-the-line Lyra cartridge. It is definitely the best cartridge I have .......
179: Vinyl Asylum, I was asking this myself.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-13, 16:55:39 (67.83.16.145)
....when I was able to talk to Harry Weisfeld at an audio event. He said that for the JPW arm, the best match among moving coils are the Ortofons and the Lyras. The most troublesome are the Denons, .......
180: Vinyl Asylum, Record prices (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-09, 05:47:31 (24.38.226.150)
While the prices of less expensive records have gone up, in many cases the prices of expensive collectible records have come down. The higher reaches of the market are much softer than they were prio .......
181: Vinyl Asylum, Careful with that LP! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-06, 08:44:01 (24.38.226.150)
It is currently selling in the $150-200 range, must be really great. .......
182: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, you really have to wonder.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-04, 06:16:50 (24.38.226.150)
....about how they ever got there. I guess their plans to open a disco next to the barn never came to fruition? .......
183: Vinyl Asylum, Another suggestion - Hana SL (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-06-02, 20:48:35 (24.38.226.150)
I haven't heard it yet, but it's gotten fantastic reviews. .......
184: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor Op. 23 (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-29, 18:07:56 (24.38.226.150)
They sold hundreds of thousands of copies in stereo, and even more in mono - and that was just in 1960! After that, it was in print for another 20 years. I would say it is of very little value. ::: T .......
185: Vinyl Asylum, RE: $1500 dollar TT (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-28, 16:14:14 (24.38.226.150)
The discontinued VPI Traveller was the outstanding value at that price point. The Player at the same price is not as good, although it packs a lot of value for the money. I don't really care for the .......
186: Vinyl Asylum, We should find a designated cuer.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-27, 14:14:26 (24.38.226.150)
....so as not to damage any valuable records! .......
187: Vinyl Asylum, This was just a brief summary.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-23, 15:40:49 (24.38.226.150)
....if I was going to write a book and go into all the exceptions, I probably wouldn't do it here. .......
188: Vinyl Asylum, The only truly worthwhile vinyl version... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-20, 19:12:41 (24.38.226.150)
....is the red linen box two-record set. It is highly collectible and quite expensive. I don't know why the reissuers don't reissue this, it would certainly sell very well. .......
189: Vinyl Asylum, Yeah, we figured.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-19, 19:24:18 (24.38.226.150)
....you dropped of the planet or something. Good to see that you are still around. Are you still hunting records and equipment? .......
190: Vinyl Asylum, There are many types of promos (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-19, 19:16:09 (24.38.226.150)
From the recording-collecting point of view, there are designated promos and white-label promos, and only the white-label promos sell for a premium. Audiophile collecting is an entirely different worl .......
191: Vinyl Asylum, One for the singing only (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-17, 18:44:57 (24.38.226.150)
The Schmidt-Isserstedt on Decca is not the greatest orchestral performance, but the solo performance by Marti Talvela is fantastic. .......
192: Vinyl Asylum, But you must get the Decca PFS (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-17, 18:41:00 (24.38.226.150)
The equalization on the London SPC release is absurd, with booming bass and shrieking treble. The Decca is quite listenable. .......
193: Vinyl Asylum, That's what Matt Weisfeld told me... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-10, 17:48:06 (24.38.226.150)
....when I heard a demo at an event. However, perhaps the arm's interaction with low-compliance cartridges is improved. .......
194: Vinyl Asylum, I could never stand that song.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-08, 18:38:33 (24.38.226.150)
...which is conveniently placed at the end of side 1. It is side 2 that is fantastic, Thompson at his best. .......
195: Vinyl Asylum, The AR is a surprisingly competitive turntable (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-07, 08:28:16 (24.38.226.150)
Even if you could get $300-400 for your AR, that is nowhere near enough to buy a modern turntable with comparable performance. You'd need at least $1500 to get something significantly better, even in .......
196: Vinyl Asylum, The latest computer technology.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-07, 07:07:55 (24.38.226.150)
...allows us to plot the location of all records in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana on a map. According to our data, about 90% of all records in this region seem to be located in Powell, Wyoming. This .......
197: Vinyl Asylum, Pressed by RCA, yes, but... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-05-02, 12:33:55 (24.38.226.150)
...the recordings themselves were new recordings commissioned for Reader's Digest, recorded in the UK by Decca engineers using Decca recording equipment. .......
198: Vinyl Asylum, Albert Ayler 'Spiritual Unity' for $100... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-29, 16:26:41 (24.38.226.150)
....actually seems to be a pretty good price. I had never heard of the record, but the original 1965 ESP has sold on eBay for $350, $192, $631, and $271. There was one copy that sold for $72, but it .......
199: Vinyl Asylum, Thinking of going Sunday... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-28, 06:04:10 (24.38.226.150)
...although it's now a 70-mile drive for me. .......
200: Vinyl Asylum, That is exactly what Matt Weisfeld did when he took over VPI (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-26, 16:55:08 (24.38.226.150)
He asked: why do we have so many different models? Why do we introduce so many new models every year? Lets have one good model at each price point, and make that one the best it can be. .......
201: Vinyl Asylum, Many people have had various problems with Pro-Ject turntables (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-25, 09:48:29 (24.38.226.150)
They seem to be hit or miss in both design and quality control. The simpler models, like the RPM series, are probably the safest ones to buy. But in this price range, many potential customers will co .......
202: Vinyl Asylum, Anyone who follows the classical collectors market.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-20, 17:39:09 (24.38.226.150)
....will not be surprised. The Starker, the Shafran, the Honneger, the Mainardi, the Fournier - they're all big-money records on original pressings. Demand is very high, so naturally the reissuers ar .......
203: Vinyl Asylum, The Mofi was cut bright.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-16, 20:39:29 (24.38.226.150)
.....and deliberately so. Stan admitted he was not entirely happy with the tonal balance that the owner of Mofi requested him to create. .......
204: Vinyl Asylum, Even when such stores attempt to price records individually... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-14, 21:22:26 (24.38.226.150)
....they completely screw it up. Back in the early 90s, I went to a thrift store in Manhattan that understood this problem. They would take about 1000 records, and put them out for $8 a record. Next .......
205: Vinyl Asylum, HW told me.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-02, 15:06:26 (24.38.226.150)
....that he had managed to lower the noise floor in the Prime Signature by 8 dB, in comparison with the Prime. If you are able to spend more and you are a skilled designer, you should be able to get b .......
206: Vinyl Asylum, They can sound very good with a mono cartridge..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-01, 18:48:00 (24.38.226.150)
....if they are not worn out. .......
207: Vinyl Asylum, Unfortunately, it just... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-04-01, 05:18:49 (24.38.226.150)
....doesn't sound very good. In 2003, when it was demonstrated at the Stereophile show in NYC, they also had in the room an inexpensive Technics belt-drive turntable with a Shure cartridge. They did .......
208: Vinyl Asylum, I have the 8-LP Art of Eduard van Beinum on Philips... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-30, 07:29:16 (24.38.226.150)
....no Brahms, but a lot of fine performances. This set can be picked up very cheaply, and is highly recommended. .......
209: Vinyl Asylum, This morning, I listened to Clapton's 'Unplugged' on CD and LP (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-21, 20:46:44 (24.38.226.150)
CD: Detailed but uptight LP: Detailed and relaxed Just my impression of two tracks. .......
210: Vinyl Asylum, Buy two, and.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-16, 09:36:09 (24.38.226.150)
...wait until it sells out. Then put your second copy on eBay for $1200. .......
211: Vinyl Asylum, European monos aren't doing that great either (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-13, 14:17:24 (67.83.115.52)
I don't see the huge prices they used to get for these ten or fifteen years ago. Lumen, Discophiles Francais, early DG, early EMI are all down. .......
212: Vinyl Asylum, But the truly rare records are more valuable than ever (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-12, 21:16:45 (67.83.115.52)
Look at the prices of LSC-2449, LSC-2553, and the Royal Ballet box set. Of course, the real money has moved to wideband Deccas and blue-and-silver SAX. The Kogan SAX LPs have gone completely insane, .......
213: Vinyl Asylum, That's nothing compared to.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-11, 15:15:04 (67.83.115.52)
....DSD5.6 rips of 30-IPS analogue studio master tapes. These kill the LP, and every other format. Unfortunately, record labels can't offer such high resolution files, because that would giving away t .......
214: Vinyl Asylum, Price has been going down steadily.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-11, 15:10:52 (67.83.115.52)
....after this set hit its peak of $28,000 in the late 90s. Evidently, there are more good copies around than they thought, and more keep appearing. .......
215: Vinyl Asylum, Valin uses very expensive equipment... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-11, 04:13:55 (67.83.115.52)
....so he is in another world compared to most of us. I was once present when we did this type of comparison on a $300K plus system. We played RCA LSC-1817 on CD, SACD, and the original 1960 LP. Yes, .......
216: Vinyl Asylum, "John Barleycorn Must Die" was... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-06, 19:59:47 (67.83.115.52)
...played over the PA system at my high school before classes started, every single day, in my senior year. It's a great record, but most of my class preferred to play something else for a while after .......
217: Vinyl Asylum, "Headless Heroes - half price!" (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-01, 13:38:48 (67.83.115.52)
You gotta love it.... .......
218: Vinyl Asylum, 'Aller Hersteller' tulips... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-03-01, 13:36:18 (67.83.115.52)
...were made between 1961 and 1964. The 'Made in Germany' tulips are 1965-70. The 'Aller Hersteller' tulips, of course, are very likely to be an all-tube recording and mastering. .......
219: Vinyl Asylum, They were top German engineers who used.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-02-18, 18:39:04 (67.83.115.52)
...the latest, most complex equipment. Think of dozens of microphones feeding into huge mixers with lots of knobs and dials. Karajan loved them - the more knobs and dials the better! That was the pr .......
220: Vinyl Asylum, Well, if you had bought them many years ago... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-02-04, 06:43:30 (67.83.115.52)
....you would have been able to get a nice collection for not much money. Now if you want an original pressing, it will costs you hundreds of dollars a record unless you get very, very lucky. ::: TO .......
221: Vinyl Asylum, Go to eBay.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-02-03, 17:26:18 (67.83.115.52)
.....go to Records, select jazz, select sold items, sort by price highest, read it and realize you missed the boat fifty years ago. .......
222: Vinyl Asylum, Buying in bulk still works (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-28, 07:17:19 (67.83.115.52)
The same guy who would be insulted if you offered him $2 for one of his records might be happy to take $600 for all 300. Many shrewd buyers pay nearly nothing for the records they want by gradually s .......
223: Vinyl Asylum, You want non-authentic? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-23, 05:39:58 (67.83.115.52)
Try the Casals with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra live on Columbia Records. This can only be described as a kick-ass performance. Who was that who yelled 'Ha!' in the middle of the third suite? Wh .......
224: Vinyl Asylum, That's quite a valuable set..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-15, 04:57:57 (67.83.115.52)
....which is the kind of thing you can find if you go to enough flea markets and estate sales. I have found a few things, but not that one. .......
225: Vinyl Asylum, There are many cartridges.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-09, 14:46:01 (67.83.115.52)
....with threaded holes. This makes everything a lot easier. .......
226: Vinyl Asylum, See below for what Matt told me.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-04, 15:23:33 (67.83.115.52)
...admittedly, in a rather casual conversation. Yes, he is making changes and pruning the line, but he has a clear direction he wants to go in. .......
227: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, I heard about it six months ago.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-03, 16:29:28 (67.83.115.52)
....when I had a long chat with Harry and Matt Weisfeld at a barbecue. I didn't know if they wanted to keep it quiet or not, so I didn't say anything online about the conversation. As Matt explained .......
228: Vinyl Asylum, You are right... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-02, 19:19:42 (67.83.115.52)
....if it's DSD, and not PCM. In theory, PCM should work, but all the real-world attempts have problems. DSD, double DSD, and DSD256 are a way out, but they lack the editing facilities needed to pro .......
229: Vinyl Asylum, Hi, CC, where ya been? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-02, 19:17:16 (67.83.115.52)
You seem to have dropped off of the internet for a bit, glad to see you are still at your post....and so are your racks of records! .......
230: Vinyl Asylum, No, it is the lack of digital distortions..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-02, 16:16:12 (67.83.115.52)
....which are unnatural and unpleasant. 'Pre-ringing' does not occur in nature, so it grates on the ear. .......
231: Vinyl Asylum, There's a lot of competition at this price point.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-02, 16:08:56 (67.83.115.52)
....and audiophiles have always put down Japanese direct-drive tables as sonically inferior. For that money, you could have a Clearaudio Concept, a VPI Prime, a Pro-Ject RPM 10 Carbon, a Rega RP8, an .......
232: Vinyl Asylum, You're a Herron user, eh? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2017-01-02, 16:03:22 (67.83.115.52)
I had a VTPH-1 for a long time, but it gave me a lot of trouble so I finally traded it in on a VTPH-2. It is very good for the money, although probably not as good as some of the ones I've been heari .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, Hard to say what mine is.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-31, 16:33:09 (67.83.115.52)
....it says on the cover "Manufactured and Distributed by Joe Gibbs Records, 20 North Parade" and "Lithographed in Jamaica by Stephensons". However, on the label it says "Manfactured by Joe Gibbs Musi .......
234: Vinyl Asylum, Your copy of Two Sevens Clash.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-31, 16:07:25 (67.83.115.52)
...where is it from? My copy has a completely different cover, it's Joe Gibbs Productions JGML-3201. .......
235: Vinyl Asylum, Average price, $28.90 a record (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-31, 16:00:41 (67.83.115.52)
Certainly way to high for a lot like this. Maybe $10-12 a record would be reasonable. He is free to ask whatever he wants, and it appears he has way to much time on his hands....not to mention all t .......
236: Vinyl Asylum, Nobody said it can't be done.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-28, 05:41:48 (67.83.115.52)
....if you are a master mastering engineer, and figure out the tricks and get it to work. But if you put an average mastering engineer on the job, at a mass-market record company, the results may not .......
237: Vinyl Asylum, Metal simply does not 'take' a cutting head... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-27, 14:19:20 (67.83.115.52)
....as well as a softer vinyl lacquer. There is a tendency towards ringing and other unpleasant distortion. .......
238: Vinyl Asylum, In classical, there are various levels of knowledge (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-24, 17:32:00 (67.83.115.52)
In many cases, those who know something but not a lot will take the RCAs and the Mercs, and leave everything else. I once was hired by a record dealer to pick through a collection he had purchased, a .......
239: Vinyl Asylum, They have a distinct sonic signature (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-22, 11:30:35 (67.83.115.52)
They sound good in many ways, but they are also completely different from well-record analogue. I personally don't care for them, but there are many who like that sound. .......
240: Vinyl Asylum, Some record stores have the vinyl flattening machine.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-22, 11:29:13 (67.83.115.52)
...and will do the job for a few bucks a record. .......
241: Vinyl Asylum, That Horenstein is available on LP... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-16, 05:58:32 (24.199.93.150)
....as a cheap Quintessence reissue, worth fifty cents. The sound is very good, although obviously not up to the potential of the recording. I am quite disappointed none of the big reissuers ever to .......
242: Vinyl Asylum, There are only three pressings of LSC-1817 (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-14, 14:27:54 (24.199.93.150)
They are: 5S/5S 10S/10S 10S/11S The other lacquers they must have cut were not usable. So it is not really surprising that the 10S/11S turned out to be the best, they were all cut within a very short .......
243: Vinyl Asylum, You have to understand 4-step processing.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-14, 06:05:01 (24.199.93.150)
...and the difference between a lacquer, a mother, and a stamper. Then you have to know how each record company indicated the lacquer, mother, and stamper information in the deadwax. Not all of them .......
244: Vinyl Asylum, These particular recordings, however.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-11, 19:02:59 (67.83.115.52)
....date from 1960-62. .......
245: Vinyl Asylum, Those are famous Mercs that every collector knows in their stereo incarnations.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-11, 17:45:23 (67.83.115.52)
....and you only have to shout out the catalog number and an image of the cover will pop into their perverted brains. For those of you who are NOT experienced Mercury collectors, go to Google images .......
246: Vinyl Asylum, He doesn't include jazz and classical.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-12-11, 10:07:34 (67.83.115.52)
....which have had some pretty impressive sales of stock-copy records. Recent examples from eBay: the Kogan Lalo for $7500, the Mobley Blue Note for $4500. .......
247: Vinyl Asylum, One problem with classical is... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-29, 17:04:22 (24.199.93.150)
....they keep changing the cover with every reissue. Sometimes, it's not even a reissue, but they change the cover anyway. Many collectors know what they have through visual recognition. .......
248: Vinyl Asylum, If you do direct comparisons.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-28, 10:44:57 (24.199.93.150)
....you will discover that the Acoustic Sounds reissue is far superior to the original Classic Records. I have several matching sets for demos. The Acoustic Sounds reissues are definitely a full ste .......
249: Vinyl Asylum, I read all the replies - I think the cartridge is simply defective... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-27, 12:25:40 (67.83.115.52)
....and you should contact the US distributor with your complaint. .......
250: Vinyl Asylum, Well 3 x 30 x 19 * .4 = 684 hours... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-27, 12:22:17 (67.83.115.52)
....so I don't think we're up to the point where we expect the cartridge to be worn out. I have never seen a high-end cartridge go less than 1500 hours. .......
251: Vinyl Asylum, The Acoustic Sounds reissues.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-27, 12:12:54 (67.83.115.52)
....are at a different level from the old Mike Hobson Classic Records. I think Chad has really upped the ante with these, and they are really very competitive. They are kind of expensive to try if y .......
252: Vinyl Asylum, Actually, the highly collectible LPs are down from the peak.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-27, 12:10:21 (67.83.115.52)
...in many cases. The Blue Notes that sold for $3000, $4000, $5000 before the crash now struggle to get $1500 or $2000. Collectors at this level are not impacted by the hipster mass market. ::: TOP .......
253: Vinyl Asylum, As a member of several audio societies.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-25, 19:38:11 (67.83.115.52)
....I am always getting chances to buy LPs. Either the member passed on and his widow is selling the collection, or guys are downsizing or selling off duplicates. Prices are typically low to move the .......
254: Vinyl Asylum, The power of Harry Pearson.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-24, 09:43:58 (67.83.115.52)
....from beyond the grave - that's the answer. 'Stardust' was on the Super Disc List in TAS, so list completists all want a copy, and will buy audiophile reissues. .......
255: Vinyl Asylum, Small volume, small companies (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-24, 09:38:40 (67.83.115.52)
You can't get any efficiencies if you make only 100 or 200 units a year. You still have to pay corporate fees, taxes, rent, web site costs, distribution, and everything else out of your small revenue .......
256: Vinyl Asylum, I find living in two places tough... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-18, 15:47:14 (24.199.93.150)
....because my system can only be in one of them. No records for a week. I am really ready to listen! .......
257: Vinyl Asylum, Here's a little background info about the reissue.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-15, 16:49:30 (67.83.115.52)
....from my good buddy Dave Nemzer. .......
258: Vinyl Asylum, That's nothing to the Rick Wakeman solo albums.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-15, 16:44:53 (67.83.115.52)
....talk about aimless keyboard doodling! .......
259: Vinyl Asylum, What happened to our friend Munkie_NL? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-01, 09:44:21 (67.83.115.52)
I had just thought of him, and upon checking I found he had last posted to the Asylum about a year ago. He used to be a very frequent visitor here, and I enjoyed his posts. .......
260: Vinyl Asylum, The New York Times is dumber than a box of rocks (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-11-01, 09:41:07 (67.83.115.52)
The city is full of audiophiles and audio clubs. There are numerous listening groups. The Chester Group's Home Audio show is at the Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South next week. Grado and DeVore .......
261: Vinyl Asylum, Grado hum is caused by the turntable motor (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-10-30, 05:39:41 (24.199.93.150)
They usually do hum with DD turntables. Does the hum increase as the cartridge approaches the center of the platter? For a Grado, you want a belt drive where the motor is well off to the side, like a .......
262: Vinyl Asylum, PCM digital has a lot of problems... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-10-23, 12:27:09 (24.199.93.150)
....even at very high sampling rates. IMHO, DSD is the way to go. If you do use PCM, you should definitely rip to 24/192. .......
263: Vinyl Asylum, Is this record a compilation? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-10-23, 12:25:46 (24.199.93.150)
I don't see any original for it. Do you know what the original DG catalog numbers were? .......
264: Vinyl Asylum, If you've got a monopoly... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-10-23, 12:21:26 (24.199.93.150)
....you can take the distributor's markup, the wholesaler's markup, and the retailer's markup! What's not to like? .......
265: Vinyl Asylum, Time for some late 70s/early 80s rock/prog (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-17, 19:04:55 (24.199.93.150)
Sting: Dream of the Blue Turtles Peter Gabriel Adrian Belew: Lone Rhino Art Bears: Hopes and Fears John Hassell: Earthquake Island .......
266: Vinyl Asylum, It's not the word size, it's the bit rate (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-15, 15:58:01 (24.199.93.150)
Sampling at 96 KHz allows them to set the anti-aliasing filter to 48 KHz. This will move most, but not all, of the digital distortion out of the audible spectrum. .......
267: Vinyl Asylum, Digital can sound very good... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-15, 11:07:35 (24.199.93.150)
...provided it is a direct DSD rip of an analogue master tape with no filtering or editing. Otherwise, you will still hear all the problems of PCM. .......
268: Vinyl Asylum, It is well known that the Nautilus is not very good (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-15, 11:05:17 (24.199.93.150)
I think they used a digital master of something like that. Anyway, nobody likes it much. The early stock US pressings can sound very, very good. You can buy a bunch and try them. .......
269: Vinyl Asylum, What does your DNS point to? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-09, 19:17:51 (24.199.93.150)
C:\Users\vinyl1>nslookup Default Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com Address: 8.8.8.8 > analogueplanet.com Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com Address: 8.8.8.8 Non-authoritative answer: Name: a .......
270: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Differences in RCA pressings (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-09-09, 17:32:40 (24.199.93.150)
The brown label monos were issued before the red labels. I believe the transition took place about 1960. .......
271: Vinyl Asylum, Third party swiped two records? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-07-08, 05:33:58 (24.199.93.150)
And said the three were all that were in the box? Some friends he's got. .......
272: Vinyl Asylum, This album is too late for that (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-07-02, 15:54:01 (24.199.93.150)
They did drill-throughs in the 50s and early 60s, but by 1973 they confined the cutting to the corners of the jackets. .......
273: Vinyl Asylum, A guy I know.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-07-02, 06:10:02 (24.199.93.150)
...has a custom, all-analogue hearing aid. If he could buy one with vacuum tubes, he would get it! .......
274: Vinyl Asylum, Tubes are good, but there are many competitive SS stages... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-29, 16:06:35 (24.199.93.150)
...at various prices points. I have heard some truly stunning SS phono preamps, but they are much more expensive than the Tavish. Scott Reynolds is a good guy, too, so you made an appropriate choice .......
275: Vinyl Asylum, If you look at Tom_B's system, he has a Lyra Helikon mono... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-19, 08:01:53 (24.199.93.150)
...that would seem to be suitable for the job! .......
276: Vinyl Asylum, One thing about record shows... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-18, 15:28:24 (24.199.93.150)
...is that they charge admission, excluding many people who are more trouble than they are worth. .......
277: Vinyl Asylum, $25K a month for 500 square feet... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-12, 15:22:47 (24.199.93.150)
....I'm surprised there are any stores at all! .......
278: Vinyl Asylum, "Jacket Printed in Canada".... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-10, 17:48:25 (24.199.93.150)
...probably because they have a lot of cheap printers with spare capacity up there. The bids from US printers were substantially higher, so the Canadians got the job. .......
279: Vinyl Asylum, Can you edit to correct URL? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-09, 04:28:32 (24.199.93.150)
You left off the 'e' at the end, causing a 404. .......
280: Vinyl Asylum, I have heard the K&K... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-07, 18:22:24 (73.143.134.243)
....and I thought it was good value for the money. However, phono stages that cost much more are undoubtedly better, if the rest of your system will do them justice. But if your system is roughly at .......
281: Vinyl Asylum, Folk? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-06-04, 19:17:38 (24.199.93.150)
Five Hand Reel, For A' That. Lyrics mostly in impenetrable dialect, or in Scots Gaelic, nice electric guitar and fiddle. "As I cam in by Auchindoun, Just a wee bit frae the toun, When tae the highlan .......
282: Vinyl Asylum, Joan Jett, Neil Young, Rolling Stones, Antonin Dvorak... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-30, 18:39:56 (24.199.93.150)
.......one of these guys doesn't fit in! Seriously, Joan Jett, Hit List Neil Young, Ragged Glory Stones, Get Your Ya-Yas Out Dvorak, The Wild Dove/The Golden Spinning Wheel .......
283: Vinyl Asylum, Probably will be killed by The Bored (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-21, 07:39:18 (24.199.93.150)
You can say "This is not an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of offers to buy", but that is exactly how it will be viewed by some of the members here. .......
284: Vinyl Asylum, The one I was remembering is... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-19, 17:00:32 (24.199.93.150)
....the Abbington Musical Research PH-77. You punch the buttons and it displays the load and curve you are using. I'm not sure if it's still made. It does sometimes lead to irresponsible listening .......
285: Vinyl Asylum, Have you seen the ones.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-19, 05:47:29 (24.199.93.150)
...where you can change the loading and equalization curve with the remote control? .......
286: Vinyl Asylum, I don't fault the OP (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-02, 07:12:25 (24.199.93.150)
His request seemed sincere. It was the responses offering to buy, or to help sell, that were inappropriate. .......
287: Vinyl Asylum, We have to obey the rules of this site (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-05-01, 18:20:04 (24.199.93.150)
It was fine to offer general advice, and discussion of the current market. But once individuals offer to help sell the collection, or imply they would buy the collection, they are breaking the rules. .......
288: Vinyl Asylum, Is this the same event... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-04-21, 08:37:13 (24.199.93.150)
...referred to in Brian Walsh's post of January 13? If so, I presume those who replied then need not reply now. .......
289: Vinyl Asylum, The thing about some reissues.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-04-05, 14:43:18 (24.199.93.150)
....is that when they go out of print, they sometimes become valuable collector records, particularly if they are the only vinyl release. But if it was sold world-wide, and some guy in Hong Kong had s .......
290: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like middle 70s stock... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-03-30, 16:27:31 (24.199.93.150)
...with a lot of 'Super Savers' with a $5.98 list price. One of the ways they did this is to remove one song from each side of the LP, saving 4.8 cents in songwriter royalties. Gatefold? No, not fo .......
291: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry, you've got the wrong Klemperer (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-03-05, 19:42:34 (24.199.93.150)
"When Klemperer's father, the famous conductor, saw his first episode of Hogan's Heroes, he said to his son, "Your work is good . . . but who is the author of this material?" .......
292: Vinyl Asylum, There are number of professional manufacturer setup vids... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-27, 11:57:24 (24.199.93.150)
....on YouTube. Presumably, they know what they're doing. .......
293: Vinyl Asylum, Are you sure it's just the table? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-22, 19:10:30 (24.199.93.150)
Having listened to a number of very expensive phono preamps recently, I would say that it's the whole analogue front-end that is doing this in certain cases. You have to be selective with your gear, .......
294: Vinyl Asylum, There are plenty of audiophiles with huge collections.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-22, 19:07:44 (24.199.93.150)
....starting with Sid Marks and Harry Pearson, to name two. I have known plenty of guys with top equipment who also have thousands of records, and are very knowledgeable about pressings and matrices. .......
295: Vinyl Asylum, Those 50s records.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-22, 07:13:52 (24.199.93.150)
.....used to be big on the record-collector market. If you go to eBay and look up singers like Julie London, Doris Day, Ann Richards, Diana Trask, you'll see there is still some collector interest fo .......
296: Vinyl Asylum, Tonight? Obscure classical records (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-17, 18:34:00 (24.199.93.150)
I played the following: Peter Maxwell Davies: Dark Angels Nicholai Medtner: Piano Sonatas Nicholas Maw: Life Studies I decided the Maw was terrible and put it on the discard pile. .......
297: Vinyl Asylum, Their ignorance is our wealth.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-13, 15:57:14 (24.199.93.150)
....imagine if everyone knew as much as we do about analogue. No bargains, no deals. .......
298: Vinyl Asylum, Prices go up and down (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-09, 07:08:49 (24.199.93.150)
Frequently, eBay leads to the discovery that a record thought to be rare is not so rare after all. Either that, or everybody who wants the record already has one. In both cases, prices fall. ::: TOP .......
299: Vinyl Asylum, Better phono stage and cartridge (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-02-02, 20:18:48 (24.199.93.150)
The VPI will take a much better cartridge, and then you'd need much better electronics all the way through, starting with the phono stage. This won't be cheap, of course. Right now your turntable a .......
300: Vinyl Asylum, Speaker cables are nothing but giant hard-coded tone controls... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-01-27, 19:01:05 (24.199.93.150)
.....that emphasize some frequencies and de-emphasize others, without the electronic artifacts of an equalizer. That's why they all sound different. If you are lucky enough to buy the one that compe .......
301: Vinyl Asylum, He is a turntable modifier and tinkerer with decades of experience.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-01-27, 18:57:11 (24.199.93.150)
...so perhaps he might know something? There's nothing like experimenting and listening. The theoreticians can come along later and try to make sense of the observations. .......
302: Vinyl Asylum, The only sales I see... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2016-01-18, 14:41:37 (24.199.93.150)
...range from $20 to $35. Perhaps those asking $100-250 are not getting it? I see one on eBay right now for $149.99. .......
303: Vinyl Asylum, Chad has the right idea..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-30, 18:28:22 (24.199.93.150)
...the devil is in the details. You can do it right or wrong with either old or new presses, you just have to take pains if you want to get it right and maintain quality. .......
304: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Mozart clarinet concerto (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-29, 10:45:23 (24.199.93.150)
It's Westminster XWN 18287. About $25-60, depending on condition. .......
305: Vinyl Asylum, Spinning Richard Thompson - Still - new release, mastered by.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-28, 15:50:56 (24.199.93.150)
....Robert Ludwig. The music is good, but it doesn't say anywhere on the jacket it's 45 RPM. Fortunately, I noticed it on the records. .......
306: Vinyl Asylum, These sorts of acquisitions...... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-27, 20:14:13 (24.199.93.150)
....are often disappointing. It is surprising how many of the records can be really bad if the guy had poor taste. I have seen collections of multi-thousands where there were hardly any desirable rec .......
307: Vinyl Asylum, You should see the real high-end systems... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-27, 20:11:35 (24.199.93.150)
...where the cables are all 3 or 4 inches in diameter. It looks like a bunch of elephants entwining their trunks! .......
308: Vinyl Asylum, Read the reviews first (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-22, 18:11:56 (24.199.93.150)
Many of these labels are just exploiting the vinyl fad. They use any old tape, or even a CD to master. Which labels do this? Read Analogue Planet and the Steve Hoffman forums to find out. ::: TOPI .......
309: Vinyl Asylum, Funny, I forgot.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-15, 15:33:22 (24.199.93.150)
....I also have this one, which is not inexpensive. But sometimes collectors like me get lucky; I paid about 2% of the going rate for these two, which are stone mint and just like you would have boug .......
310: Vinyl Asylum, Yeah, get the EMI pressings, the mastering is much better (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-15, 15:27:05 (24.199.93.150)
The reissues are not that expensive. I've got an ASD reissue of the 4th and a German Electrola reissue of the 9th. .......
311: Vinyl Asylum, Here is the eBay completed auction URL.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-15, 15:23:31 (24.199.93.150)
....however the item was relisted, looks like the buyer didn't pay. It sold for $525 the second time around. .......
312: Vinyl Asylum, I'm glad to hear that.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-12, 14:30:48 (24.199.93.150)
....since it will result less competition for good records. .......
313: Vinyl Asylum, I said 'direct'! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-10, 17:01:58 (24.199.93.150)
If you convert the DSD to 24/384 PCM for mixing, and then convert it back to DSD, it will not sound good. .......
314: Vinyl Asylum, Direct DSD rips of analogue master tapes are fantastic... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-10, 10:51:10 (24.199.93.150)
....and DSD128 and DSD256 are even better. However, if you convert them to PCM, there will be rounding errors. It would have been much better to go back to the original tapes and convert them direct .......
315: Vinyl Asylum, As I recall, they were DSD masters..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-10, 06:11:11 (24.199.93.150)
.....issued simultaneously on SACD. Or am I wrong? .......
316: Vinyl Asylum, Then your best bets would probably be.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-09, 09:25:59 (24.199.93.150)
....the Academy rock store, which is now located at 415 E 12th, and A-1 Records at 439 E 6th. .......
317: Vinyl Asylum, That's really old (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-09, 09:23:08 (24.199.93.150)
Don't expect to find Academy Records at 77 E 10th, they moved 12 years ago! .......
318: Vinyl Asylum, Er, what type of music do you like? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-12-08, 19:29:19 (24.199.93.150)
No use sending a classical guy to a jazz store, or vice versa. .......
319: Vinyl Asylum, That wasn't my question (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-29, 07:48:35 (24.199.93.150)
I was asking how the OP's turntable could have had the wrong speed, if they are all checked at the factory for the correct speed. Presumably, something must have happened to throw it off. ::: TOPIC:: .......
320: Vinyl Asylum, How do you account for these differences? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-28, 15:19:36 (24.199.93.150)
I am thinking of getting a Prime myself, but reports of the speed being off are a bit disturbing. Can they get out of whack in shipping? Does the ambient temperature impact them? If you test each o .......
321: Vinyl Asylum, The obvious thing to do.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-14, 17:13:00 (24.199.93.150)
....is to contact Bob Graham. He's a nice guy, and might have some sort of suggestions. .......
322: Vinyl Asylum, They hold their value very well (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-14, 08:43:49 (24.199.93.150)
This is probably because you can order parts and they are easy to work on. A new Scout 1.1 is now $2000, so you should be able to get at least $1000-1200 for a box-stock 10-year-old Scout in good con .......
323: Vinyl Asylum, What is the rent on his factory in Brooklyn? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-11, 19:02:24 (73.143.134.243)
Is it $900 a square foot or something? Does a slice of pizza cost $5 in his neighborhood? I think I see the problem. Time to open a factory in China.... .......
324: Vinyl Asylum, Your equipment has to roughly match (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-11, 18:48:56 (73.143.134.243)
Guys who use $40K phono preamps mostly likely used very expensive turntables, cartridges, and amplifiers. It is not surprising, because each component in the chain has to pass on the signal. What you .......
325: Vinyl Asylum, Er, do you have all the tools you need? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-06, 16:47:18 (24.199.93.150)
I know, you can't have too many! .......
326: Vinyl Asylum, I have one.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-04, 06:22:31 (24.199.93.150)
....and it's a very nice phono stage for the money. However, it is tube, although the tubes seem to be very reliable. I can personally endorse Keith Herron's customer support - he is absolutely the .......
327: Vinyl Asylum, Well, what do you suggest? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-11-01, 19:24:39 (73.143.134.243)
Maybe they should have asked the mayor to shut down the subway system so they could make a better recording? .......
328: Vinyl Asylum, Interestingly, the price of collectible records is mostly down (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-31, 18:31:46 (73.143.134.243)
If you look at what they're getting for collectible classical, jazz, and rock on eBay, prices are mostly down. Take an important RCA, a top Blue Note, or a Parlophone Beatles or Decca Roling Stones, .......
329: Vinyl Asylum, A Festival of Obscure Classical Music! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-19, 18:02:02 (24.199.93.150)
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemaya, Redes; Mata/NPO Florent Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome; Martinon/ORFT Arthur Sullivan: Incidental Music to The Tempest; Dunn/COBSO I am beginning to suspect there is a .......
330: Vinyl Asylum, Das Liebesverbot! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-19, 15:42:38 (24.199.93.150)
"Poorly attended and with a lead singer who forgot the words and had to improvise, it was a resounding flop and its second performance had to be cancelled after a fist-fight between the prima donna's .......
331: Vinyl Asylum, My interpretation is.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-16, 08:36:24 (73.143.134.243)
...that there are only two sources in the world of the blank lacquer discs that the mastering engineers use to cut the record. When the lacquer is cut, then they electroplate it. .......
332: Vinyl Asylum, What records are you listening to? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-11, 07:58:08 (24.199.93.150)
Many modern pop/rock records sound better on less analytic systems. An extremely high-end system will take them apart, and make them sound like a bunch of players sitting in isolation booths with sep .......
333: Vinyl Asylum, And mine (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-10-03, 16:26:08 (24.199.93.150)
I will keep Markevitch, and replace the other four: 1 Horenstein (best interpretation of the Dvorak New World) 2 Monteux 3 Fricsay (did not live long enough to record much on LP) 4 Kondrashin Runners .......
334: Vinyl Asylum, Motor vibrations are a big problem with DD (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-15, 10:05:46 (24.199.93.150)
It is much easier and cheaper to isolate the motor properly with belt drive. Many high-end belt drive turntables have a separate motor that can be mounted on a physically separate platform from the m .......
335: Vinyl Asylum, He didn't actually give the asking price.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-14, 16:28:38 (24.199.93.150)
....in his post. Presumably, it is a reasonable buy or he wouldn't be considering it. But as I said, there's lots of competition in the new, demo, and used market. .......
336: Vinyl Asylum, There is a lot of competition in that price range (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-13, 10:01:41 (24.199.93.150)
Each of the turntables in the $10-15K range is slightly different, and the arms do make a difference. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to set up comparisons to see which one would work the best in .......
337: Vinyl Asylum, Most interesting (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-08, 16:18:26 (24.199.93.150)
The elite producers of high-end vinyl probably have an easier time of it. It you can sell your records for $40 or $50, you will have the cash flow to deal with these sorts of problems. If you look at .......
338: Vinyl Asylum, I only have the Van Cliburn LP..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-06, 09:56:25 (24.199.93.150)
....and I'm playing it now. It sounds OK, but it won't have the 'clarity' that is introduced by multimiking the orchestra from a few feet away. If you attend an actual concert and sit in the middle .......
339: Vinyl Asylum, I remember the final sale of vinyl records... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-04, 16:29:24 (24.199.93.150)
....at Barnes and Noble, back in 1990. This is it! These are the last vinyl records we have, there will be no more! I did get some good deals..... .......
340: Vinyl Asylum, You'll never get anything near retail... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-09-04, 12:08:45 (24.199.93.150)
....if you sell the entire collection. Wholesale is generally considered 10% of retail for common records, and 20% of retail of collectibles worth over $20. For high-value records, they might go as .......
341: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, there is a connection (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-28, 15:20:30 (24.199.93.150)
When Sir Ted Lewis was facing bankruptcy in the 30s, he sold off his US Decca subsidiary in order to stay afloat. He kept the UK Decca company and label, but obviously could no longer use the Decca n .......
342: Vinyl Asylum, Herron has himself stated... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-23, 09:10:00 (24.199.93.150)
....that he tunes his equipment to the characteristics of the tubes he supplies, and he thinks that they sound best with the original tubes. However, I don't think you can get Sovtek 12ax7WA tubes an .......
343: Vinyl Asylum, Seems to be worth about... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-20, 18:55:16 (73.143.134.243)
.....$500-700 in that condition. It's a great find, you can use it as the gem of your collection. .......
344: Vinyl Asylum, Congratulations, you have stumped the experts! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 08:42:09 (24.199.93.150)
It's not the first time, strange records do turn up every now and then. I once found a new Mercury promo label that nobody had ever seen before, and I had to send the record to Canada so the label co .......
345: Vinyl Asylum, Did you check for 'Made in Canada' on the jacket? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 07:14:02 (24.199.93.150)
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. What you see as II may be a sloppy JJ, as John Johnson cut most of the Mercury LPs that George Piros didn't. He may have grabbed George's P17 lathe when he got a chance. .......
346: Vinyl Asylum, Somebody posted a scan of the Columbia ad... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 07:08:41 (24.199.93.150)
...and that was the price. Of course, that was the era of 15 cent hamburgers at the snack bar and 30 cents a gallon at the gas station. .......
347: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry, the difference is huge.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 07:06:55 (24.199.93.150)
.....the FR and RFR pressings have gigantic, deep bass that the Columbia pressings do not. I'm talking 30-60 Hz here. If your system doesn't go down that low, you might not hear much of a differenc .......
348: Vinyl Asylum, The deep maroon of the label he posted.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 06:21:37 (24.199.93.150)
....shows that the record is early to mid, so there should be more somewhere in the dead wax. .......
349: Vinyl Asylum, Piros always marked the Columbia Record Club lacquers..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 06:19:34 (24.199.93.150)
....with the distinct CBRF- prefix. Columbia required him to drastically reduce the bass so the records would play on the $9.99 Columbia House record players. He complied, but didn't like it. ::: TO .......
350: Vinyl Asylum, That is an early pressing label.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-04, 06:16:32 (24.199.93.150)
....and should have either an FR-X or an RFR-X somewhere in the dead wax, unless it is a Columbia Record Club pressing, in which case it will have a CTRF-X number. Sometimes these markings are very f .......
351: Vinyl Asylum, Seems strange.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-03, 19:05:26 (24.199.93.150)
....can you post a good pic of the label? .......
352: Vinyl Asylum, Following the SR-90054... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-03, 18:04:25 (24.199.93.150)
...you would normally expect to see a lacquer number along the lines of RFR-3. Is there anything there? The 'P17' is a strong hint that it is an early or middle pressing cut by George Piros, so you .......
353: Vinyl Asylum, That's a bad sign.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-03, 12:24:29 (24.199.93.150)
...but you never know. 'Big Band' is the prototype of the unsaleable LP, and 'jazz' could be anything. .......
354: Vinyl Asylum, May be good, may be disappointing (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-08-03, 11:21:01 (24.199.93.150)
You would think 1000 records couldn't be all bad, but it is at least possible. I hope that is not the case. .......
355: Vinyl Asylum, "..a bunch of stuff I have never seen before..." (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-31, 04:37:02 (24.199.93.150)
Could you elaborate? .......
356: Vinyl Asylum, Storage space? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-30, 08:24:12 (24.199.93.150)
My apartment is 440 square feet, and I have 4000 records. So there NO reason not to collect records. .......
357: Vinyl Asylum, I looked at your system.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-29, 11:37:43 (24.199.93.150)
....with that kind of equipment, you should certainly be able to hear the mastering quality, or lack thereof, on these reissues. However, without an original or a $50 45-RPM reissue to compare them t .......
358: Vinyl Asylum, Not all reissues are the same (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-29, 11:21:56 (24.199.93.150)
There are quite a few '180-gram' reissues that are semi-legal, and mastered from the CD. This is likely to be true if the LP is from Italy, where they have a 25-year copyright law. The Scorpio reiss .......
359: Vinyl Asylum, Well, we do have a few very fit guys in my audio club.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-28, 09:06:02 (24.199.93.150)
.....listening to records is not incompatible with working out and eating properly. Although, curiously, the food at the meetings usually attracts greater interest than the gear being demo'd. ::: TO .......
360: Vinyl Asylum, I commented on YouTube (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-28, 09:03:33 (24.199.93.150)
If you look at the tonearm carefully, it is definitely moving in and out, so the record is off-center. The wow is very slight, but it will get worse on the more inner grooves. .......
361: Vinyl Asylum, I was about to suggest that.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-28, 05:18:42 (24.199.93.150)
....as it is the most common cause of this sort of thing. The other possibility is that it is the horns. The horn is very difficult to play cleanly, and few orchestras attain the level of the Vienna .......
362: Vinyl Asylum, That cartoon is unusually accurate...... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-27, 16:33:33 (24.199.93.150)
.....with the high-end turntable with the two-inch-thick platter, the tubed preamp and the retro power amp. Note the bottle of record-cleaning fluid and brush, and the super-tweeter at the top of the .......
363: Vinyl Asylum, This is a US pressing, right? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-26, 05:39:00 (73.143.134.243)
I have always liked the Levine Mahler, but the German pressings are usually significantly better than the US. I would be interested to hear if that is the case with these later digital recordings. :: .......
364: Vinyl Asylum, I would nominate the VPI Traveler with the Grado Gold... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-15, 18:53:05 (24.199.93.150)
.....but it depends on what your budget actually is. .......
365: Vinyl Asylum, Time for some SR/2 classical! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-15, 18:06:08 (24.199.93.150)
The Solti 'Romantic Russia', recorded by Decca, followed by the Previn 'Carmina Burana', an EMI, both MoFi reissues from the late 70s. The sound on the originals was formidable, and I don't think Dec .......
366: Vinyl Asylum, There are many famous linear-tracking arms... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-14, 16:50:25 (24.199.93.150)
....such as the Souther and AirTangent. They were expensive, difficult to execute, and had many problems. Putting a giant air compressor in the basement and running 50 feet of plastic tubing was not .......
367: Vinyl Asylum, They are a loophole label... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-13, 15:24:58 (24.199.93.150)
...taking advantage of loose Italian copyright laws. That means the major labels won't give them original tapes or anything else, which makes it difficult to cut a good reissue. They are reputed to u .......
368: Vinyl Asylum, That's a very competitive price point.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-06, 09:54:41 (24.199.93.150)
...with lots of tables from VPI, ClearAudio, Basis, etc. .......
369: Vinyl Asylum, A grado would probably hum on an MMF-5 (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-07-04, 10:18:28 (24.199.93.150)
Always check the Grado hum database. .......
370: Vinyl Asylum, Classical records at record shows..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-28, 13:16:56 (24.199.93.150)
....where the dealers know every Pink Floyd and Led Zeph pressing variation, but don't recognize big money classical, are my usual target. I recently took a Furtwangler Urania for $2 at one of these. .......
371: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I never leave $100 records in the $1 bin... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-28, 10:35:25 (24.199.93.150)
What you should do is go to eBay, classical records, sold items, sorted by price highest first. The same few records come up over and over again. Memorize the appearance of the covers. .......
372: Vinyl Asylum, I never leave $100 records in the $1 bin... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-28, 09:53:52 (24.199.93.150)
....does anyone? I have piles of records for my eventual eBay selling career, if I ever get around to it. .......
373: Vinyl Asylum, Pink Floyd, DSOTM (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-27, 16:16:17 (24.199.93.150)
I had not played my copy for about 20 years, since it's not really the type of music I'm into. Anyway, we had played it at my audio club on a 3-watt single-ended tube system, and it sounded terrible. .......
374: Vinyl Asylum, When possible, remove headshell or arm wand... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-27, 16:13:26 (24.199.93.150)
...and put it on a high shelf before attempting to clean the turntable. I have made this a habit, knowing what a klutz I am. .......
375: Vinyl Asylum, VPI sells the Traveler with a Grado mounted.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-27, 04:11:28 (24.199.93.150)
....so the Grado cartridge doesn't hum on the Traveler. You might consider one if you are into that type of sound. .......
376: Vinyl Asylum, Leinsdorf and Richter didn't hit it off.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-26, 18:07:10 (24.199.93.150)
....so they agreed to disagree in that Brahms Second. It was just offered on the basis of Richter's name and reputation. The sound is not that good for a Living Stereo, either. .......
377: Vinyl Asylum, Did the store know what it was? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-26, 14:31:59 (24.199.93.150)
Or did they just treat it as another $8 EMI classical import? .......
378: Vinyl Asylum, There is a fine Prokofiev series on RCA... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-26, 14:30:06 (24.199.93.150)
....with the BSO. These were unfortunately released just after the shaded-dog era, and were all Dynagrooves. However, they are all fine performances in decent sound. I would particularly call your .......
379: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, Grados are unshielded and hum.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-24, 05:30:41 (24.199.93.150)
...in many turntables. The guys over at Audiokarma have a spreadsheet for this. All three users who tried a Grado on the MMF-5 got hum, so it definitely hums with your turntable. .......
380: Vinyl Asylum, What is really interesting is... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-23, 16:17:51 (24.199.93.150)
...if you go onto eBay, open the "Records" category, select "Sold Items", and sort on "Price Highest First". About 99.9% of the population will never have heard of the most valuable items. Robert Joh .......
381: Vinyl Asylum, The Chinese guys should get back into the business.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-15, 08:58:58 (24.199.93.150)
...that $4000 one is very nice, but it could use some competition. .......
382: Vinyl Asylum, I have a very clean original pressing of that... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-15, 08:56:16 (24.199.93.150)
....they are not that hard to find in good condition, and don't cost much. I think I paid 8 or 9 bucks at a record show. .......
383: Vinyl Asylum, Man, they'll reissue anything! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-15, 05:54:45 (24.199.93.150)
I once suggested to Chad Kassem that he should reissue Bill Keith's "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue". I had played it in several rooms at the 2003 Stereophile show, a .......
384: Vinyl Asylum, You might try an ultrasonic cleaning machine.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-14, 17:29:51 (24.199.93.150)
....if you get a chance. The $4000 one does get everything out of the grooves that's stuck in there. I suppose there's little hope that you're near a record store that has one.... .......
385: Vinyl Asylum, How about Doc & Merle Watson, PIckin' the Blues... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-14, 17:27:20 (24.199.93.150)
...a too-little-known record, Flying Fish FF-352. Recorded in 1985, never reissued as far as I know. .......
386: Vinyl Asylum, I use a Herron VTPH-2 myself... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-09, 09:08:58 (24.199.93.150)
...but I don't kid myself, it's not as good as the phono stages in the $25-50K price range. Try listening to the Ypsilon and the Vitus SP-102. They are out of this world....and so is the price tag! .......
387: Vinyl Asylum, You should explain to the largely US readership... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-06-02, 18:32:55 (24.199.93.150)
.....that "TAB, Australia's Number 1 racing and sports betting site", is what you mean. We didn't think it was the diet soft drink..... .......
388: Vinyl Asylum, Beethoven 7th? Casals/Marlboro Festival Orchestra.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-31, 18:35:25 (24.199.93.150)
...performance wonderful, sound abysmal. I played it anyway, why not? Available in better $1 bins everywhere. .......
389: Vinyl Asylum, What pressing of the Starker Merc do you have? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-31, 17:47:36 (24.199.93.150)
They are not all created equal. .......
390: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, they play it on Caliburn Continuum with the Koetsu Coralstone.. (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-28, 16:31:40 (24.199.93.150)
....Platinum Mono. Why do you think they sell $15K mono cartridges? Somebody must be using them for something! .......
391: Vinyl Asylum, I have not played any Jimi Hendrix in the past 12 years... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-25, 14:07:36 (24.199.93.150)
...but the Chad Kassem interview bought him to mind, and caused his music to enter my brain without conscious effort on my part. Therefore....Are You Experienced? .......
392: Vinyl Asylum, In the expensive commercial ultrasonic machines... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-18, 06:06:02 (24.199.93.150)
...the cleaning solution, which is distilled water, remains in the machine. These machine do a pretty good job, and automatically clean and dry the record in about 4 minutes.....all for only $4000! : .......
393: Vinyl Asylum, Richard Thompson... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-16, 16:52:52 (24.199.93.150)
..."The Old Kit Bag" - one of his best later albums. It took me a while to get into it, but it is definitely up there. .......
394: Vinyl Asylum, I have taken out my copy and am playing it now.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-09, 16:22:33 (24.199.93.150)
....it's an RCA pressing, FR2/FR1, with absolutely stunning dynamics. Despite the limitations of the early cutters, Piros managed to get huge bass on this one. .......
395: Vinyl Asylum, I played that one lately.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-09, 09:52:16 (24.199.93.150)
.....for my AudioKarma thread 'I am going to play all my Living Stereos', although I haven't posted it yet. Truly a fabulous record, one of the best-sounding of the Boston series. They really did som .......
396: Vinyl Asylum, Do you want to be a member of the club or not? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-05-09, 09:50:00 (24.199.93.150)
In casual conversation, serious RCA collectors do use catalog numbers instead of titles. You in? .......
397: Vinyl Asylum, We are just telling you to buy better masterings of these performances (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-27, 10:08:50 (24.199.93.150)
You can try the Living Stereo shaded dog, the Living Stereo white dog, the plum Victrola, the Chesky reissues, the RCA .5 reissues, the Hobson-era Classic Records, or the current Chad Kassem Classic R .......
398: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, they are bad (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-27, 06:08:09 (24.199.93.150)
Anyone who has done a comparison with a good original Living Stereo shaded dog, or a early plum Victrola reissue, can tell you the Gold Seal reissues are inferior. RCA put out this series as a cheap .......
399: Vinyl Asylum, CM97331 is the mono (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-24, 16:07:05 (24.199.93.150)
Surely, for a spectacular orchestral piece, you would want the stereo - which is London CS6331 for the Ansermet, or Decca SXL6027. Other good ones: Munch/BSO, RCA LSC-2341 Paray/Detroit, Mercury SR9 .......
400: Vinyl Asylum, Don't forget the Basis Work of Art.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-22, 14:31:12 (24.199.93.150)
...which Fremer has never reviewed. A.J. is not big on sending out review samples, but it is probably a formidable turntable. The best ones I have actually heard myself are the Kronos Sparta and the .......
401: Vinyl Asylum, People that rich are hard bargainers.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-22, 13:23:25 (24.199.93.150)
....and will offer him $65K max. Why do you think they're rich? .......
402: Vinyl Asylum, It's been there quite a while.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-22, 11:09:56 (24.199.93.150)
....and he's not getting any nibbles. I doubt if eBay is the appropriate marketplace for this sort of item. He did manage to unload a pair of Sonus Faber Stradivaris for $25,900, but that's probabl .......
403: Vinyl Asylum, The Oasis is pretty good.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-14, 15:06:12 (24.199.93.150)
....and I did like it when I heard it. It is about $20K with tonearm. However, the VPI 3D tonearm is definitely special, and a step up from machined metal tonearms. You would have to consider how muc .......
404: Vinyl Asylum, I had more in mind... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-14, 13:32:58 (24.199.93.150)
....flea markets, antique malls, and estate sales. Generally speaking, record stores tend to know a lot about the value of records, although they don't know everything. At record shows, I always look .......
405: Vinyl Asylum, It is the cost of running a company (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-14, 13:27:24 (24.199.93.150)
If you just bought the parts and put them together in your garage to make one for yourself, the cost would not be very high. But if you want to go into manufacturing, you need employees, or at least a .......
406: Vinyl Asylum, The deals are still out there (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-13, 19:45:38 (24.199.93.150)
It's getting harder to find things, but discoveries are still being made every day. Collectors with huge collections are either giving up the hobby, or passing on to the next world, every day. Their .......
407: Vinyl Asylum, I have heard the Music Masters.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-12, 09:38:05 (24.199.93.150)
....but I have never done a one-on-one comparison of the same LP. The MM reissues are good, but they have a distinctly modern, audiophile sound. .......
408: Vinyl Asylum, There's nothing like the real thing.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-12, 06:05:42 (24.199.93.150)
....the sound of an original deep groove, RVG, ear, West 53rd St pressing played on a high-end system is absolutely distinct. Many reissuers have tried to match it, but they cannot. Having heard sev .......
409: Vinyl Asylum, The Mahler 4th is not so much a sonic dud.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-11, 16:19:52 (24.199.93.150)
...as an illustration of how not to play Mahler. A martinet like Reiner is not going to produce the gemütlich effect called for by the music. .......
410: Vinyl Asylum, No such shaded dog - Victrola was first LP issue (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-11, 16:16:58 (24.199.93.150)
However, the shaded dog LSC was 'reissued' by Classic Records, creating some confusion. They also did several other RCAs that never came out, such as LSC-1831 and LSC-1900. .......
411: Vinyl Asylum, The Slatkin is musically flat, IMHO (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-11, 05:50:38 (24.199.93.150)
I have it, but I usually listen either to the Abaddo, the Schippers, or the Ancerl. Those are the top performances for me. .......
412: Vinyl Asylum, Always look at every record! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-09, 11:19:17 (24.199.93.150)
You just never know. I once was faced with 10 boxes of records for $5 each at a tag sale - in 1996! I dutifully looked at each record, although none of them were even worth a dollar. Then I came t .......
413: Vinyl Asylum, But it is of dubious legality to sell them in the US.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-08, 16:47:09 (24.199.93.150)
....and if the labels made a stink about it, they'd disappear from the bins. .......
414: Vinyl Asylum, I almost always listen to whole albums.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-07, 11:24:54 (24.199.93.150)
....or at least whole side, so that is not a problem for me. I usually listen to about 800-1000 sides a year. .......
415: Vinyl Asylum, That's nothing (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-07, 05:34:15 (24.199.93.150)
I have a spreadsheet of what records I have listened to over the past ten years, so I can generate statistics about the records played most often in each genre. .......
416: Vinyl Asylum, The art of pressing is what is lost (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-02, 19:21:56 (24.199.93.150)
Sloppy pressing practices create more bad LPs than worn stampers. In order to make good records, the press has to be thoroughly and evenly heated. The vinyl 'puck' as to be inserted exactly in the .......
417: Vinyl Asylum, A stamper is not a lacquer (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-02, 19:18:23 (24.199.93.150)
In the classic 4-step plating process, a lacquer was cut. It is the element that was engraved with the 1S or whatever. Each lacquer was plated, and several mothers were created. Each mother was use .......
418: Vinyl Asylum, You should have held that Soria, it's worth $1500 now... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-04-01, 09:43:24 (24.199.93.150)
....and still going up! .......
419: Vinyl Asylum, And my best find ever? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-31, 13:58:23 (24.199.93.150)
At the WFMU record show, under an overloaded table, the Mahler Second Symphony with Klemperer. UK EMI SAX 2473 and 2474, two separate records, both completely mint, for $14. The eBay price is $600- .......
420: Vinyl Asylum, Huge demand at pressing plants... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-30, 13:39:26 (24.199.93.150)
....has ruined quality control. They have more customers than they can handle, so they don't care. That's why Chad Kassem had to build his own pressing plant to get the quality he wants, and even he .......
421: Vinyl Asylum, The decoders are cheap.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-26, 17:49:06 (24.199.93.150)
.....and are easy to pick up. It's an obsolete technology, so few are interested. .......
422: Vinyl Asylum, That seems strange, since.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-26, 12:46:20 (24.199.93.150)
...the 1959 sessions apparently produced SXL2125-7, which were good stereo recordings. I don't see why they would re-record such a small-selling record when they had a good recording with the same art .......
423: Vinyl Asylum, I suspect.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-20, 07:31:47 (24.199.93.150)
...that this is the effect Dylan wanted. .......
424: Vinyl Asylum, Try a DynaFlex from the 70s, you might be surprised (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-17, 11:13:04 (24.199.93.150)
Some of them are nearly as good as the shaded dog originals, but they can be had for $1, and are more likely to play without noise. .......
425: Vinyl Asylum, PayPal will refund you..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-17, 11:11:28 (24.199.93.150)
....if you don't get what you ordered. When I bought something from a guy in Singapore, I added 3% for PayPal fees so I could pay with PayPal. .......
426: Vinyl Asylum, Post properly, keep on-topic! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-10, 19:36:31 (24.199.93.150)
I'm surprised at how tolerant the Bored is, but we shouldn't push them. Keep it with records and turntables, be polite, avoid religion and politics, and all should be good. .......
427: Vinyl Asylum, Those who shop at Academy used to allege... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-10, 16:16:21 (24.199.93.150)
....that Joseph would sometimes put a low price on a highly collectible record if he didn't like the artist. I haven't found anything like that lately, but it does keep people looking through the bin .......
428: Vinyl Asylum, Come to New York, go to Academy Records.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-09, 16:12:24 (24.199.93.150)
....they have much better prices than that on common stuff! .......
429: Vinyl Asylum, He couldn't use a Grado.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-06, 09:01:39 (24.199.93.150)
...since they are notoriously subject to 'Grado hum' on a Rega. .......
430: Vinyl Asylum, How about some more Sibelius? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-03-05, 18:08:36 (24.199.93.150)
I'm playing the Karajan/Ferras version of the violin concerto, one of my favorite performances, along with the Ashkenazy/Belkin. .......
431: Vinyl Asylum, Are you using a mono cartridge? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-20, 11:16:11 (24.199.93.150)
A cartridge that does not respond electrically to vertical modulation is the first step in removing noise. .......
432: Vinyl Asylum, Piros really knew how to cut deep bass.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-19, 14:37:01 (24.199.93.150)
....on those stereo Mercs. I've got a white label promo of SR90253 that is absolutely stunning in sound. .......
433: Vinyl Asylum, Solti on Decca for the Rite, Horenstein on Reader's Digest... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-15, 18:19:04 (24.199.93.150)
...for the New World. If you can't find the Reader's Digest box, then you may have to get the cheap Quintessence reissue as a fill-in. .......
434: Vinyl Asylum, Some do - Basis Turntables supplies dust covers... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-12, 06:34:39 (24.199.93.150)
....build to a very high specification. Why that matters, when you have to remove the dust cover before playing a record, I cannot say. .......
435: Vinyl Asylum, After all those RCA Living Stereos, it's time for - Robert Crumb! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-08, 19:47:49 (24.199.93.150)
Haven't played the Cheap Suit Serenaders for a while, but I played the original and Volume 2 tonight. They do a great version of Willie the Chimney Sweeper: Did you ever hear the story of Willie the W .......
436: Vinyl Asylum, By a strange coincidence, I played that yesterday... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-03, 20:50:33 (24.199.93.150)
....I haven't played it for a while, my listening log shows 5 plays in the past 11 years. .......
437: Vinyl Asylum, Relativity - S/T (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-02-03, 20:47:39 (24.199.93.150)
Have a listen (the record sounds much better, of course): .......
438: Vinyl Asylum, Well, you never know (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-30, 13:15:27 (24.199.93.150)
Tag sales, flea markets - people have found clean copies for very cheap. If you know what you are looking for, you sometimes find things. .......
439: Vinyl Asylum, From the audiophile point of view, yes... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-30, 10:52:41 (24.199.93.150)
...but that leaves the record collectors. The price of a black-and-gold Parlophone from 1963 is not going to come down any time soon. .......
440: Vinyl Asylum, Parlophone pressed the original UK pressings.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-30, 08:15:15 (24.199.93.150)
....and was the pop/rock subsidiary of EMI in the UK. There are a wide variety of pressings available, as the LPs stayed in print in the UK from their first issue until the 'end' of the LP in the earl .......
441: Vinyl Asylum, Hi-end prices don't seem to be impacted... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-27, 08:49:26 (24.199.93.150)
...by the vinyl revival. You can still pick up a VPI HW-19 or a Linn from the 90s very reasonably. .......
442: Vinyl Asylum, It's not only classical... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-25, 07:21:23 (24.199.93.150)
....at a church sale in the early 90s, the teenage kids from the church priced the records. They put $5 on the Beatles and Stones records they recognized. I bought two rare psyche records for $1 eac .......
443: Vinyl Asylum, I always look. (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-24, 15:54:10 (24.199.93.150)
In the 90s, when you couldn't give classical LPs away, I went to a tag sale where all the LPs were $5 each. The last LP in the last box was a stone mint Sibelius Violin Concerto, LSC-2435, shaded dog .......
444: Vinyl Asylum, Whether it has vertical compliance or not... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-23, 16:19:36 (24.199.93.150)
....is not as important as how the coils work. While old mono cartridges from the 50s did not have vertical compliance, and so ruined stereo records, modern mono cartridges usually do have vertical c .......
445: Vinyl Asylum, How do accountants depreciate $175K turntables? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-22, 18:58:39 (24.199.93.150)
I'll bet they didn't cover that in the CPA manual! .......
446: Vinyl Asylum, I wonder how they're doing now..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-21, 14:19:57 (24.199.93.150)
....it's really tough to be a high-end audiophile when your economy is collapsing. Over in Switzerland, they have the opposite problem - nobody can afford to buy their products now. .......
447: Vinyl Asylum, Here you go... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-21, 13:26:05 (24.199.93.150)
....an appropriate track for this thread! .......
448: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Working on listening for my Living Stereo thread... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-20, 15:22:16 (24.199.93.150)
I have the original LSC shaded dog, a plum Victrola, and a later London reissue. .......
449: Vinyl Asylum, Working on listening for my Living Stereo thread... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-17, 17:10:23 (24.199.93.150)
...over in Audiokarma. Playing various pressings of Venice, LSC-2313. .......
450: Vinyl Asylum, His price is high, but not outrageous... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-16, 08:03:47 (24.199.93.150)
.....he might get $800 or $900 if he tries. At auction, this would be a $500-600 set. .......
451: Vinyl Asylum, Maybe there are 100 guys... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-16, 08:01:37 (24.199.93.150)
....busy writing cartridge pricing guides? .......
452: Vinyl Asylum, No, there were some Carlos Kleiber digitals.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-12, 13:01:21 (24.199.93.150)
...such as the Brahms 4th. .......
453: Vinyl Asylum, These guys mostly operate out of Hong Kong.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-07, 12:42:45 (24.199.93.150)
...and are not authorized to sell in the US. They probably have contacts in Japan and ways of buying in bulk. The '2juki' seller is definitely very good and can deliver the goods, but there are a nu .......
454: Vinyl Asylum, LSC-2303.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-01, 18:10:01 (24.199.93.150)
...the Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures Living Stereo, for my thread over at audiokarma.org. Before that, I played the Lynn Harrell/James Levine Schubert Arpeggione Sonata, and a couple of sides from .......
455: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like it will just fit - all I need is $3800! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-01, 10:56:05 (24.199.93.150)
Less value of my trade-in, that is. I would like to hear some feedback on how it performs, and whether there are any issues with the first batch that have to be corrected. .......
456: Vinyl Asylum, "New Year's Concert" (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2015-01-01, 10:52:43 (24.199.93.150)
Willi Boskovsky and the Vienna Philharmonic. One has to play these sorts of records sometime, so why not on New Year's Eve - or New Year's Day? .......
457: Vinyl Asylum, Contact points, please... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-31, 08:25:37 (24.199.93.150)
...outside of foot to outside of foot, width and depth. .......
458: Vinyl Asylum, Thank you Matt... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-31, 05:24:14 (24.199.93.150)
...I think everybody suspected that it was just an error on the site. If the spec was indeed as posted, the first time you tried to mount a cartridge on a test table, you'd see the problem. Whereas .......
459: Vinyl Asylum, OK, another question for you, if I may (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-30, 18:11:37 (24.199.93.150)
I can't find anything in the specs about the footprint of the turntable. What is the distance from the outer edge of each foot to the outer edge of the opposite foot, if you get what I mean? I want t .......
460: Vinyl Asylum, I have a digital volume control... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-30, 16:37:13 (24.199.93.150)
....on my line stage. I normally listen to records at 15%, or maybe 20%. I turned it up to 50% with the phono selected. Absolutely nothing is audible at 6 feet from the speakers. I would get a nice .......
461: Vinyl Asylum, Somebody here may have one by now... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-30, 15:15:28 (24.199.93.150)
...maybe FSonicSmith got his. We could ask what the actual angle is on the turntable as delivered. .......
462: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like he kept the hair... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-30, 13:23:59 (24.199.93.150)
...although most of them cut it off when they get to be 50 or 60. .......
463: Vinyl Asylum, Well, VPI does post here - why not ping them? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-30, 06:43:14 (24.199.93.150)
I'm sure if they made a mistake in the printed literature they'd admit it. That would be a minor peccadillo compared to making a mistake in the tonearm design, which I don't think they would do. ::: .......
464: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Vpi prime on audiogon NOW (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-29, 18:08:24 (24.199.93.150)
Is that your diagram and calculations, or VPI's? .......
465: Vinyl Asylum, Well, how good is good? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-28, 05:31:24 (24.199.93.150)
Moravec was recorded direct to 2-track 30 IPS tape without any processing, and the earliest pressings were half-speed mastered at 45 RPM. Backhaus was recorded by Decca engineers at the peak of the g .......
466: Vinyl Asylum, I'm sure the sound is great.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-27, 20:08:25 (24.199.93.150)
...but are you really going to listen to Beethoven, Schumann, and Chopin with these pianists? The recordings of Wilhelm Backhaus, Wilhelm Kempff, Sviatoslav Richter, and Ivan Movavec have excellent .......
467: Vinyl Asylum, Richter on EMI, for one... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-27, 19:12:53 (24.199.93.150)
....there are three records from the early sixties that sound great on original pressings. Simple miking and tube cutting is what does it. At the other end of the spectrum, the Malcom Frager Telarc C .......
468: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Westminster XWN first issue or not? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-22, 14:17:48 (24.199.93.150)
The XWN2218 number belongs to the two-record set, while the XWN18347 refers to the individual record. As far as I can tell, both were offered. Some of the XWN series are reissues from the WL series. .......
469: Vinyl Asylum, A particular formulation of plastic is the culprit (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-16, 05:26:50 (24.199.93.150)
Modern plastic-lined inner sleeves are completely safe. They have a frosty, slightly crinkled appearance. .......
470: Vinyl Asylum, Probably due to high value of Swiss Franc (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-11, 13:25:54 (24.199.93.150)
They just aren't competitive any more outside of the high-priced models. The Ace at $400, the Glider at $750, were nice cartridges, but they can't sell them for twice as much. .......
471: Vinyl Asylum, Jon Hassell, Earthquake Island, on.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-12-06, 06:34:04 (24.199.93.150)
...Tomato Records. There's one you don't hear every day! .......
472: Vinyl Asylum, So the 10" version is complete? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-18, 14:36:01 (24.199.93.150)
I would think it would be rather compressed and bass-shy if they stuffed all this music onto a 10" LP. I agree the SB is the one to have. The rights for this LP would have reverted to Decca after the .......
473: Vinyl Asylum, I have about 20.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-14, 06:32:17 (24.199.93.150)
....and some of the 'budget-label junk' are actually reissues of important overseas performances that were not on major labels. For example, you can get the Vox Cum Laude of the Fedoseyev performance .......
474: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry, didn't see it was you... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-10, 19:13:50 (24.199.93.150)
...since of course you would have heard those. I just re-listened to the Markevitch 2nd and 3rd, he seems to bring out a lot of things in the music that others don't. .......
475: Vinyl Asylum, You need to hear the three M conductors... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-10, 06:56:49 (24.199.93.150)
....Mravinsky, Monteux, and Markevitch. .......
476: Vinyl Asylum, Trees - Garden of Jane Delawney.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-08, 18:50:04 (24.199.93.150)
....on my temporary turntable, an original Rega Planar 2 with a Van den Hul One cartridge. The table is from 1983, the cartridge is from 1991. This old stuff isn't bad. .......
477: Vinyl Asylum, Christie Moore - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-04, 16:03:49 (24.199.93.150)
....Irish Polydor 2383 344. Good musicians and well-recorded, but Moore as a protest singer can grate. .......
478: Vinyl Asylum, Not sure what you mean.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-03, 07:38:40 (24.199.93.150)
...by UK Black Angel and White Angel. Can you post pics of a couple of labels? .......
479: Vinyl Asylum, How do you define a 'first pressing'? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-11-03, 07:37:20 (24.199.93.150)
Some guys are looking for the first stamper from the first mother from the first lacquer - on both sides of the LP! Others will cheerfully take anything from the first year or two. So what is the ask .......
480: Vinyl Asylum, Do you think they could sell records, for $50, $100, $500... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-10-31, 17:28:28 (24.199.93.150)
....if they used a digital preview head? Those who are willing to pay are still getting analogue. .......
481: Vinyl Asylum, Double DSD is pretty good, provided that..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-10-31, 17:26:22 (24.199.93.150)
....it was never converted to 24/384 for mixing. The conversion to PCM and back seems to ruin it. As good as analog? I listened to raw rips of analogue studio master tapes, and it was better than vi .......
482: Vinyl Asylum, Harry Weisfeld is still the designer.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-27, 14:37:37 (24.199.93.150)
....he just got tired of the business aspects of the company. Now that he has more time to just work on new products, we are seeing a lot of interesting stuff. .......
483: Vinyl Asylum, One sentence is a little unclear (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-27, 14:36:08 (24.199.93.150)
"I did not have the 3D arm". You don't have one on your Mk IV, or the VPI Direct Drive you heard did not have one? It makes a big difference on both tables. I thought the DD came only with the 3D arm .......
484: Vinyl Asylum, So, you're going to put in your order? (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-26, 08:28:13 (24.199.93.150)
With those two $2300 arms, I would say retail would be around $10-12K. .......
485: Vinyl Asylum, A mono cutter head.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-20, 04:08:00 (69.86.16.213)
...cuts a U-shaped groove that goes back and forth, but not up and down. There is only one signal encoded. A stereo cutter cuts a V-shaped groove in which there are two channels, one on each side of .......
486: Vinyl Asylum, Since it's not a true mono record, nothing (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-19, 19:20:44 (69.86.16.213)
All modern monos are stereo cuts with the same music in each channel. .......
487: Vinyl Asylum, High Level Ranters and John Coltrane.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-09-19, 19:19:02 (69.86.16.213)
....do they go well together? Believe it or not, someone has played free jazz on Northumbrian pipes, so anything is possible. .......
488: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Apologies (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-08-19, 05:07:53 (69.86.16.213)
Cactus is right - I keep all the valuable records I find, I've never sold anything. I rely on the stock market to make money, it's much better than used classical records! .......
489: Vinyl Asylum, The Milstein Bach LP, Capitol P8298.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-08-17, 18:40:02 (69.86.16.213)
...is the only truly valuable record of the lot. They still get $30-75 for good copies. The Fiedlers have good sound, but you can't give away the his later shaded dogs nowadays, particularly that one .......
490: Vinyl Asylum, Be sure to properly conserve the picture sleevs of the 45s (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-08-17, 18:28:06 (69.86.16.213)
They can be quite valuable, and a single crease or tear can put a major ding in the price. I know you didn't buy the collection for monetary value, but if value is there you might as well preserve it .......
491: Vinyl Asylum, Not necessarily... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-26, 10:53:58 (69.86.16.213)
....go to eBay, select Records, Classical, 78 RPM, Sold Listings. Sort by price, highest first. There are things out there that collectors are looking for. .......
492: Vinyl Asylum, They still get $100-150 for UK-pressed Angels... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-20, 19:04:16 (69.86.16.213)
....like this, although ten years ago, they would get close to $200. .......
493: Vinyl Asylum, Boult and the recording really emphasize the brass parts... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-16, 16:34:17 (69.86.16.213)
....so that aspect comes through most clearly, compared to many other performances. .......
494: Vinyl Asylum, Schubert! (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-15, 19:36:29 (69.86.16.213)
The 9th symphony with Boult/LSO on EMI. The sound quality and the performance are both first-rate. .......
495: Vinyl Asylum, They have to pay rent, utilities, insurance, web site fees... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-15, 19:35:00 (69.86.16.213)
...and send out free samples to reviewers. It's not the parts that are expensive, it's all the costs that come with running a company. They only get about 50-60% of the retail price from their deale .......
496: Vinyl Asylum, Only $189 on eBay... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-13, 04:21:58 (69.86.16.213)
....so you can buy it now! If you have unlimited funds, that is.... .......
497: Vinyl Asylum, Five from different genres.... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-07-12, 04:12:45 (69.86.16.213)
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces Bunny Wail3er - Revolution Bill Keith - Something Old, Something New Something Borrowed, Something Blue Sviatoslav Richter - Richter in Italy John Coltrane - Giant Steps .......
498: Vinyl Asylum, Paul Simon, "Hearts and Bones"... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-06-28, 10:19:52 (69.86.16.37)
...would be appropriate. .......
499: Vinyl Asylum, If not a thrift..... (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-06-28, 10:16:24 (69.86.16.37)
...then what was it? Flea market, boot sale? .......
500: Vinyl Asylum, I'll learn to buy the SAX-o-tone (0.00)
Posted by vinyl1 on 2014-06-18, 17:32:47 (24.215.173.113)
I'll pay just what I feel Play rare records all night long And bid beyond what's real. They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Canfield the Perfect Guide, Just .......
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