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Living with one

Posted by jeromelang (A) on April 3, 2017 at 09:16:57

In Reply to: ELP laser player posted by Uncle Mike on April 1, 2017 at 02:45:59:

Lived with one for more than 4 years.
At one stage I had 3 units at home.
2 fitted with the $3500 hi-resolution upgrade, and one without.
Once you heard the hi res version, it is very difficult to go back to the normal version.
If you own one and wish to make a comment, it would be appreciated if you could tell us which version you own.

Here's a few other experiences:

The noise filter can be switched off.
But it is not printed down in the owners manual.
I think Chiba san intentionally blanked out this noise blanker function.
When asked about it, his initial reply was to tell his customer to look up a certain page in the manual. But in that page where he said the instructions would be, there is just a blank area. Haha! He had forgotten that he had blanked out that section.
The audibility of the switchable noise blanker filter is system dependant.
On some systems you may hear it so clearly, it compells you to switch it off religiously, even if you are only going to listen to it causally.
On some system it isn't so audible at all.
Now you don't really hear it as a "sound"
It manifest itself as taller, wider soundstage if the filter is disengaged.
If left turned on you may notice it as if the soundstage isn't as naturally life sized as you would normally hear it.

The surface noise doesn't really bothers me, and I am one who gets bothered with many things.
I've a few records that I've cleaned once and continued to play them subsequently straight after taking them out from their paper inner sleeves. Just a couple of nights ago, I pulled a bunch of 7" records bought many years ago and haven't been cleaned and proceed to play them without cleaning them at all.

The other thing is - many records dun really sound great if they had just been cleaned and dried. They may sound harsh in some cases. But after a few hours of letting them breathe in open air, they then sound much better. The other way of making them sound better is let them played through the ELP, then play another record, and then play the first record again. Very often there is very audible sound improvement. It is a very large degree of change. If you do own the ELP and wish to do this test, remember not to let the side that has been played to be touched by another surface because you will hear a change in the sound if you do. Whatever last touched the surface of the vinyl will impart its sonic signature onto the surface of the vinyl.

Which brings me to the next topic:

Different water/fluid that is used to clean the viny will imparts its own signature on the vinyl surface. On the ELP, this is very audible,

I generally prefer the sound of any vinyl that has been cleaned and dried without any physical contact with any material other than water. I have a spinner that allows me to clean my records with just water spray and then it spins and dry my records without touching any other materials. It all contactless cleaning and drying. Records cleaned/dried this way sound way way better.

Lastly, I shut down and re-powered up my ELP before playing any side of records. Soundstaging is twice as big and twice as tall compared to the usual way of playing. The sense of dynamics is dramatically heightened. Overall there is greater sense of musical ease and separation and delineation is much much improved. The difference is like comparing an expensive $5,000 esoteric SACD player vs a $50 Samsung did player.

If I have the money I would buy a second or 3rd unit to keep as spares, in case the company founder dies and the company folded. That's how much I like mine!

Edits: 04/03/17

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