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Location: Glasgow/Italy
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I'm Drew.
Location: Manchester
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I'm John.
I prefer to buy used vinyl locally. All the record stores I frequent have turntables where you can give it a spin and listen to the LPs to assess their condition. The downside of course is unpredictable selection, but sometimes that's a positive thing, as I discover some nice records that otherwise I'd never consider purchasing.
Don't you just hate it when you cannot detect where the post ends and a signature line begins?
Alex.
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 1,998
I'm guy.
Just wondering whether dull sounding copies could have been owned by a smoker?
I don't think that standard record cleaning (very small amount of surfactant) would remove any tar if it had been in a smokey environment.
You could check out my theory by wiping one of the bad ones with a cotton bud soaked in IPA or similar? (or sniff the covers!)
I raise this point as I used to smoke - many years ago - and I was surprised/disgusted by the thin layer of tar that I kept on finding on various household items even years later.
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Sony CDP XB930.
I’ve had much success removing nicotine from old records. And it’s probably one of the most common forms of pollution on your records. Certain ones that were excessively dirty, I’ll also give it a good cleaning with my Enzyme formula cleaner, and the waste water shows about the color of tea, apparently the nicotine coloring the water. And of course the proof is in the playback! A badly soiled record can take 3 cleanings or more before the waste water looks clean. I use plain old MoFi brand fluids in my Pro-Ject RCM, so far the only thing it won’t remove are scratches.
It’s true that old records that were played on a child’s record player, or record players from before the 1950’s, can be worn out by the needle. But modern record players that use a tracking force of less than 2grams, I don’t think you could ever wear a record out with it? As records I’ve owned for near 40 years and had literally hundreds of plays can be cleaned up to sound like new!
Russell
Location: Glasgow/Italy
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I'm Drew.
Could be bad stamps fro.m end of a stampers life
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Location: Suffolk, UK
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I'm Paul.
Regards,
Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***