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In Reply to: RE: Something wrong with my ears? posted by jbcortes on July 28, 2015 at 02:33:11
I just hope it's the pressing and not the equipment, I'd hate to spend that much $$$ and have it sound that bad! It makes my old Garrards, Thorens and Rek-O-Kut sound very good.
TR
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Actually, all belt drive turntables need to have their belt replaced periodically. I think we all tend to wait too long between belt replacements. I know I do. Moreover, some of us are much more sensitive to slight pitch variations than others. I have always been very sensitive and I hear it in nearly all records to one degree or another. CDs, on the other hand, are usually rock solid unless they were sourced from analog tape.
Best regards,
John Elison
just because they are premium audiophile records, there is no guarantee for the dead on centre hole.
I had to return a few records because of it. Most notably show up on a sustained piano or single horns.
Things that reveal off-center pressings:
1) Piano, especially slow, sustained piano
2) Organ with tremulants not in use, especially slow, sustained music. Doesn't matter if its loud or quiet; the on-or-off character of organ pipes ruthlessly reveals pitch instability.
3) Sustained orchestral chords. Last night I played a record of "Also sprach Zarathustra" that was ever so slightly off-center; it didn't reveal itself until the end of side 1, with the big, slow, full orchestra statement of the C-G-C motive. Another ruthless one is the very end of Mahler's Symphony No. 3--big, full, organ-like chords spread through the whole orchestra, played with all the steadiness and rich sonority brass players can muster up at the end of a long piece. Any waver gives itself away.
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