I've found that you always get this with certain qualities of vinyl,
except with Shure's wonderful M447s, which I can't praise enough. The
villains of the piece are definitely the Stanton 500als, which
basically cane vinyl in a horrifying way - though there's always
those little battery powered bus/car things that drive round your
record with a little speaker on their back, don't ever use these if
you want to listen to the record again.
Through collecting old vinyl I've noticed that the quality of the
vinyl varies a lot with economic circumstances. e.g. during the 70's
and the oil crisis pressings became a lot thinner and peeps came up
with silly ideas like RCA's shonky 'Dynaflex' pressings. These thin
pressings, or worse still the ones pressed on adulterated vinyl, seem
to be particularly prone to needle burn.
A bit OT I'm afraid (especially for a first posting - please be
gentle) but Richard started it.
Dan
while we are kinda on topic.....I wanted to ask about vinyl burning and
stylii
if you've got old styliil can they damage your wax?
I was playing around with two copies and repeating the intro for ages...and
then when I played the same record the next day the intro was all staticy
and defintely sounded damaged. is this vinyl burn? on some stylli/cartridge
ads they talk about this 'vinyl burn'.....can old needles damage your wax?
rc
on 21/11/02 7:18 AM, Jonny McIntosh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK. If I've misread I apologise, though I'll confess I'm still unable to see
it when I read your emails. That's not reading between lines :) Just one
point, I'm sure you *can* play unknown records on the fly: all records are
unknown at some point. That's precisely my point about pitch control: it's a
lot easier. If it isn't your bag, then fair enough. I don't think we
actually disagree there, given my misreading. And I'm not suggesting you do
have to do it all the time. As Neil pointed out to me, if you need to be at
plus 8, you're going to have to use your hands. I'm not claiming there's any
more merit in it than as a general approach. If I've given the impression of
suggesting people must mix in one way then that'll be my mistake. My last
post on this.
Take care,
J R McIntosh ;)
