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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    You're absolutely right, I'd love an RCM. But I'll just have to add it to the ever-growing list of "things I can't afford" I suppose it should jump to the front of queue, hi fi upgrades-wise.
    Bring it over to mine Steve and run it through my RCM


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    Cheers Mike, you're a star! Any evening or Saturday afternoons are best for me, so if you say what's best for you I'll be there - I'm only 5 minutes away.

    My vinyl collection isn't particularly big, about 400. But still probably enough to make owning an RCM worthwhile.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    That's a sensible idea and good result. We'll defo hook up sometime soon though, Steve

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Cheers Mike, you're a star! Any evening or Saturday afternoons are best for me, so if you say what's best for you I'll be there - I'm only 5 minutes away.

    My vinyl collection isn't particularly big, about 400. But still probably enough to make owning an RCM worthwhile.
    Mine is less now but need a cleaner to get anywhere near the best out of the system. Even new they are often dirty. Vinyl passion stuff aside as they seem to clean them first. Always pristine
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    That's a sensible idea and good result. We'll defo hook up sometime soon though, Steve

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    Cheers Marco, look forward to it
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Cheers Mike, you're a star! Any evening or Saturday afternoons are best for me, so if you say what's best for you I'll be there - I'm only 5 minutes away.

    My vinyl collection isn't particularly big, about 400. But still probably enough to make owning an RCM worthwhile.
    Any evening this week after 6 mate suits me


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    For the second time in a month or so I've bought new vinyl which, after a clean on an Okki, has played flawlessly except for several cracks and pops on the last 10 seconds of the final side as it goes into the run off. Doubtless a pressing issue and very annoying. It's probably the pinnacle of first world problems, but it's a dilemma whether to go to the hassle of returning it or just put up with it. As a new item, and let's face it new vinyl is not exactly a bargain, it 'should' be perfect, but often life just seems to short........

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breezy View Post
    For the second time in a month or so I've bought new vinyl which, after a clean on an Okki, has played flawlessly except for several cracks and pops on the last 10 seconds of the final side as it goes into the run off. Doubtless a pressing issue and very annoying. It's probably the pinnacle of first world problems, but it's a dilemma whether to go to the hassle of returning it or just put up with it. As a new item, and let's face it new vinyl is not exactly a bargain, it 'should' be perfect, but often life just seems to short........
    If it’s new, and cleaned, I suspect the ticks you refer to in the lead out groove will be on every copy?

    That’s the one drawback of a manual turntable, the needle riding in that lead out groove until you get up and lift the needle. Some albums have a quiet lead out, and it’ll barely makes a shuffling sound as it spins, waiting for someone to lift the needle. And others make an infernal racket! With loud pops and bangs as the needle jumps that last groove! That’ll have you jumping from your chair to save it! I have in the past fallen asleep and woken an hour later to the sound of the needle in that last groove, it didn’t seem to hurt anything, but it is worrisome. And of course they do make those arm lifters for manual tables, perhaps if I had a more expensive cartridge I may invest in one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Mine is less now but need a cleaner to get anywhere near the best out of the system. Even new they are often dirty. Vinyl passion stuff aside as they seem to clean them first. Always pristine
    When you say Vinyl Passion are you referring to the record label? I thought they were one of those cheapo European domain labels like DOL?

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    Returning to the importance of vinyl quality and sound... I had an interesting exchange with the owner of an online audiophile vinyl shop yesterday who warned me off buying several new release records I was interested in, noting that those- and indeed the vast majority of vinyl nowadays- were essentially junk, using as source a cd master on a usb stick or CDR, mastered in a couple of hours buy an engineer in a studio who rattles through 3 or 4 albums a day. The vinyl is cut using a digital 16bit cutting head on a DMM lathe instead of an analogue VMS one. His advice was save money and buy the CD instead. Not really news I suppose but pretty depressing nonetheless. If only all new releases were as stunning as Mofi Ultradisks (and a fraction of the price!!!!), I think we'd be hearing fewer complaints about TTS, carts and other ancillary equipment...
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