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Posted by AnthonyR on 10/21/05 22:45
"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:Ion1KJ.1ou7@wjv.com...
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>>> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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>>Bill,
>>You might be right, I was just guessing the price from memory,
>>Yikes...that's a lot for a record player.
>
> It is targeted to a specific market - places that have archival
> storage and are fragile enough that they can not be played on
> physical contact equipment without the risk of damage.
>
> Those include a lot of old transcriptions where the lacquer can
> start peeling off.
>
> And other delicate things like the stack of 16" glass based
> transcriptions I have. Those were used for live recordings on
> portable recorders, and the reason for the glass was that during
> WWII all aluminum was being used for making such things as
> airplanes.
>
> In many respects the glass base was better as it was much flatter -
> but it is breakable.
>
>>They do however make all kinds of corrections for pitch
>>distortion and other linear anomolies which is great.
>
> Well I have a turntable that does tempo changes flawlessly.
>
> I've used it to take old recordings that I felt were cut too fast
> or too slow and brought them into what I thought felt good. I've
> played them for others and they agree with my judgement.
>
> But then I did spend a lot of years as music director in radio
> and then wound up as a recording engineer running a fairly costly
> [for it's day] recording studio. The day we got it up and running
> we had $850,000 invested - and that would take $3-5 Million today.
> Analog studios were NOT cheap - nor were huge sound-proof rooms.
>
> But the turntable is a Stanton ST-150. It has a built in
> preamp with SPDIF outputs and is locked into the turntable speed
> control and pitch. You press the lock pitch button and move the
> slider and tempo changes. It was designed for DJ [club] work
> but with the S-shaped tone arm it does quite well on the humoungous
> stacks of '45s that I accumlated as MD over the years.
>
>>Maybe the price will drop to $300 one day, so i can afford one?
>>LOL But by then all my records will already be converted and in
>>the trash as I'm doing them little at a time now.
>
> The thing I like about this TT and I have a Stanton cartridge on
> it, is that it is rugged enough and the cartridge is exposed enough
> so that I can 'wet-play' the disks. Then taking the SPDIF output
> and running the click supression on the software I can make decent
> transfers. I avoide the noise-reduction as it's really more of a
> filter and taking the 'hiss' out that so many dislike also takes
> away a good hunk of the music.
>
> Bill
>
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> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
Hey Bill,
Thanks for the informative post.
I transferred most of my old vinyl using the cheaper Stanton STR8-20 and
going into PC with a preamp
and then cleaning and removing pops with the pinnacle "clean" program. It
was pretty buggy however
and since bought the magix audio studio cleaner, but haven't had time to
learn it well, and keep using the clean as i am use to its simplicity.
What's amazing about digital restoration is also how you can capture a sound
sample from the beginning of the record and create
a noise pattern to remove from the rest of the recording, sorry I forgot the
proper terminology at the moment.
The pops can also be removed individually when pretty bad, but I use sound
forge for that. :)
Thanks again.
AnthonyR.
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