Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used...

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Posted by carvinman on May 28, 2012 at 13:26:36

Hi,
I've got a growing collection of jazz vinyl, around 70+ albums. Heres the problem- I'm getting more and more frustrated with the fact that far too high a percentage (in my opinon) of the jazz vinyl I buy, new or old, has some kind of sonic flaw, usually distortion on the horns. I'd say about 1/3 to 1/2 of the jazz LPs have distortion that drives me nuts. I don't have this problem with anywhere near as many pop/ rock LPs-maybe 10% or less of those, and I've got close to 200 pop/rock/etc. LPs.
My turntable and cartridge is nothing great- a Music Hall MMF 2.2 and an Ortofon 2m red. I have it set up with a Geodisc and the Analogue Productions test LP I use shows no significant flaws in the setup. I have fooled around with VTA, VTF, Azimuth, and antiskate.

During a test on some unimportant LPs, one thing I did notice is that I lost most of this distrortion when I skewed the VTA (or is it azimuth?) of the arm to the point where the needle was visually angled in toward the center of the turntable. However, I changed this knowing that it cant be good for the records.

What am I doing wrong? LP is supposed to be better than CD right? Not in my current setup...

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Topic - Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - carvinman 13:26:36 05/28/12 (23)

tonearm and cartridge XXXXX - cpielock@eaglebrook.org 20:20:22 05/29/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - jazzthusiast 16:28:59 05/29/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - Lew 08:17:26 05/29/12 (0)

Playing rock albums doesn't stress much with TT playback, - Dan_ed 04:03:17 05/29/12 (0)

70 records is not that many - jbcortes 23:01:25 05/28/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - learsfool 21:32:36 05/28/12 (12)

However, there are also alot of really crappy jazz records out there. - richardl 11:24:56 06/01/12 (0)

RE: Or, dare I write it, the OPs ears.... - amioutaline? 07:15:36 05/29/12 (0)

Blue Note - elix 03:15:22 05/29/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - WOStantonCS100 22:17:21 05/28/12 (8)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - learsfool 19:13:17 05/29/12 (0)

I didn't detect any passive-aggression in his post. - soundnut 06:18:56 05/29/12 (4)

RE: I didn't detect any passive-aggression in his post. - WOStantonCS100 11:30:07 05/29/12 (0)

RE: I didn't detect any passive-aggression in his post. - WOStantonCS100 11:22:22 05/29/12 (2)

RE: I didn't detect any passive-aggression in his post. - soundnut 17:15:02 05/29/12 (1)

RE: I didn't detect any passive-aggression in his post. - WOStantonCS100 21:41:31 05/29/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - jbcortes 23:53:45 05/28/12 (1)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - WOStantonCS100 00:51:05 05/29/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - WOStantonCS100 18:39:32 05/28/12 (0)

most jazz I have plays better than rock or classical... - gkargreen 18:03:22 05/28/12 (0)

You turntable/cartridge is not up to the job.... - vinyl1 15:27:02 05/28/12 (0)

RE: Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used... - Biff 14:49:16 05/28/12 (0)

First thing I would do is have a fellow vinyl freak.. - nocoastjazz@gmail.com 13:37:04 05/28/12 (0)

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