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« Reply #15 on: 11:23:03, 05-04-2008 » |
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Welcome JP. Hope you enjoy browsing all the different threads. There are some very knowledgeable people on here (not me incidentally, but I've learned a lot).
All the best,
Milly.
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« Reply #16 on: 13:46:09, 05-04-2008 » |
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Hello JP from me too.
Any recommendations you require on 19th century piano music, especially Liszt, please ask!
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« Reply #17 on: 00:12:33, 06-04-2008 » |
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I'd just like to add my welcomes here; hope you make yourself at home &c.
look forward to seeing you about on the board
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« Reply #18 on: 13:27:29, 08-04-2008 » |
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Members,
We are shocking in our tardiness! Please welcome JPV.
Have fund here, Member Vinyl.
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« Reply #19 on: 13:28:22, 08-04-2008 » |
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Oh, just seen the "er, hello" thread.
Well, hello JPV
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« Reply #20 on: 14:58:34, 08-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #21 on: 14:59:58, 08-04-2008 » |
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(or perhaps to immortalise his blushes where they would otherwise soon have slipped off the front page and into oblivion?  - anyway, I'm sure we can push them off this page too before long.  ) |
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« Reply #22 on: 15:36:24, 08-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #23 on: 03:33:16, 12-04-2008 » |
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As are you, Thompson. Thanks for the welcome!
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« Reply #24 on: 09:58:54, 13-04-2008 » |
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Hi, JPV. Like you, I got into the world of classical music through acquiring recordings: LPs at first and then CDs. I never bought many cassettes, although I enjoyed following a Great Composers series which came out every fortnight with a cassette and a magazine, and I find many of the ones I have haven't aged very well. I was never one for recording off the radio. I find that having the proper album sleeves or cases is part of the pleasure.
I bought a turntable a couple of weeks ago because the system I was using didn't have a phono socket and this model worked through an auxiliary socket. It's also one of those that makes transferring vinyl to CD easy. However, when I came to play some of my old LPs I was disappointed with the surface noise - too many pops and crackles. I wondered whether it was the turntable or the state of my records so I looked around for an LP I hadn't played much and it turned out to be Mahler's Ninth (I've posted on this elsewhere).
The reason for that was that I had bought a boxed set of all the symphonies with Haitink and the Concertgebouw. This was at a time when it was unusual to see recordings of Mahler in the shops. I started with the first symphony but by the time I was getting towards the ninth, CDs had come out and so I tended to concentrate on them. The arrival of the CD served Mahler very well.
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« Reply #25 on: 12:23:07, 13-04-2008 » |
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Tony, JPV, Yes, Crackle on vinyl is a problem with some of the transfers I do to CD. Much of my vinyl is very near mint, up to 50 years old but aquired via charity shops and have been hardly ever played. They may have no visible scratches on them but you can make some assessment of how often they are played by looking for part fingerprints on the rim and also by looking at the spindle hole. Most of my near mint LPs have just one or two slight marks on the label near the spindle hole. Despite their near mint quality some LPs still produce a lot of crackle. Brushing and anti-static cloths help but it's clear that there is some problem with the grooves in some records, and it's not always the cheaper vinyl, I have some DG, HMV vinyl which suffer badly. Hmm, this discussion belongs in the Vinyl section not the Welcome  |
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« Reply #26 on: 12:39:54, 13-04-2008 » |
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How much crackle you get off an LP is also related to the ergonomics and build quality of the machine on which you play them. Most inexpensive players/decks have a high mechanical resonant frequency which emphasises record noise: more expensive decks take care to avoid resonance in the two areas where noise is most troublesome.
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>>Despite their near mint quality some LPs still produce a lot of crackle. Brushing and anti-static cloths help but it's clear that there is some problem with the grooves in some records, and it's not always the cheaper vinyl, I have some DG, HMV vinyl which suffer badly.
Yes I find that, and with some of my DG and HMV vinyl as well. I suspect Ron Dough's post is very much to the point here - one of my players is a second-hand used Philips and the other a piece assembled in Singapore, I believe, from a kit produced somewhere in the UK, if the stickers can be trusted, and sold in a shop here in Bangalore. The newer player actually produces more crackle but the old one has a very tired belt. Yes, I should take this discussion to the vinyl section after browsing the threads there to see if there is already any pertinent information.
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« Reply #28 on: 14:44:06, 16-04-2008 » |
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First tip:
Make sure that the screws holding the cartridge to the headshell are tight - as tight as is possible without causing physical damage: be very careful not to damage the cantilever as you do this - if there's a stylus guard to hand, use it, holding it in place with Blu-tac or Sellotape if need be. The reason for this is simple physics - the cartridge will have a high 'Q' (resonant frequency), which will exacerbate the high frequency of record noise by resonating in sympathy with it: if the cartridge is firmly bonded to something with a higher mass, its 'Q' will become lower. Sadly, unless the arm has really good bearings, the frequency may not be lowered enough to solve the problem all that much, but you should still gain more detail and less noise. If you can't source a new belt straight away, then a really good trick is to slip it off the pulley, take a cloth sprayed lightly with a silicone polish, fold it in two, and holding it between index finger and thumb, run it right round the belt a few times. Obviously this won't help a stretched belt, but it will revive one that's gone dry or sticky.
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Whilst the belt's off the pulley, give the belt-path a good cleaning with a cotton bud dipped in a cleaning fluid. Isopropyl alcohol is ideal, but most countries have now restricted its sale except to industrial concerns: the good news is that the nearest substitute, vodka, is easily obtainable. (Muslim countries excepted).
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My name's Jayaprakash and I live in India. I used to be a 10-year old classical music fan, then a few years later adolescence kicked in and I took to more angsty musical interests. Although I've acquired CDs of some favourite pieces like Mahler's 1st over the years, and well-known pieces like the Peer Gynt suite, Rite Of Spring, Pictures At An Exhibition, I didn't concentrate much on classical music. I recently saw a bunch of classical CDs on sale at a local record store, recognised a lot of composers and pieces that had given me a lot of pleasure as part of my original, cassette-tape, classical collection, and decided to pick some up. A few days later, I returned because I just had to have some more Brahms. A week later I stalked zombie-like through the store, sale now long over, for more Mahler. A set of Beethoven's complete symphonies. Mozart's horn concertos. Haydn! Schubert! Dvorak! Tchaikovsky! Rimsky-Korsakov!
And so the madness grew.
Hi everyone, have a great day
In parallel, having become a part-time vinyl enthusiast some time back I've also been scouring the junk and antique stores for good LP records. I picked up some oods and ends - Bernstein directing the New World Symphony, excerpts from Carmen, some Grieg, some Sibelius, and so on, and then a month back I found a motherlode - a vast collection of unopened 60s and 70s vinyl, all classical, mostly Deutsche Gramophonnen. Lots of Karajan, Bruno Walter's Brahms symphonies, Rite Of Spring directed by Stravinsky and much more.
After spending some time lurking on the Radio 3 board at the BBC site, I decided that this would be a good place to plunge in, share my enthusiasm, crow about my finds, and perhaps pick a brain or two. Cheers!
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