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Question for the vinyl heads. If an album is available as a single or double LP, which do you choose, and why? |
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You-can-call-me-kal 22,783 posts
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Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Double, every time as theoretically if there is more space between the grooves it can be mastered to have better dynamics, bass etc.
Question for the vinyl heads.
If an album is available as a single or double LP, which do you choose, and why? -
You-can-call-me-kal 22,783 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAnd less inner groove distortion.
Do you align your cartridge accordingly? -
Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
What do you mean?
And less inner groove distortion.
Do you align your cartridge accordingly? -
You-can-call-me-kal 22,783 posts
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Registered 15 years agoBearwald, Loefgren, Stevenson etc. -
Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Aha, I used the mint protractor and checked using the hi-fi news test record plus well loved LPs to test.
Bearwald, Loefgren, Stevenson etc. -
You-can-call-me-kal 22,783 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI was mainly asking as I prefer single LPs because I just can’t be arsed with the ballache, but I’m aware it’s not a very audiophile attitude to have.
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Registered 11 years agoI only buy singles if the master was cut in the Southern Hemisphere because it cancels the distortion due to the Coriolis force. -
Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Aha, not that far tbh, I didn't align specifically as I'll always have a mix.
I was mainly asking as I prefer single LPs because I just can’t be arsed with the ballache, but I’m aware it’s not a very audiophile attitude to have.
And then when you said you prefer double I wondered how far you take it. -
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Registered 3 years agoDoes Katie Melua release her albums on vinyl -
You-can-call-me-kal 22,783 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI have a couple of old LPs designed for stacking systems, which are A/C on the first record, and B/D on the second. They are the fucking balls achiest of ball aches and I rarely listen to them, despite them being two of my favourite albums. -
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
Didn't know that was a thing tbh.
I have a couple of old LPs designed for stacking systems, which are A/C on the first record, and B/D on the second. They are the fucking balls achiest of ball aches and I rarely listen to them, despite them being two of my favourite albums.
Out of curiosity, what are they? -
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Registered 15 years agoYou’ve probably seen them and not realised what they are. They were really popular in the 70s (to the extent that records like the ones I’ve got were designed to work with them).
Basically you stacked up a bunch of records and the player would play the top one, then automatically suspend it in the air before moving onto the record underneath. I think you could stack like 10 records or more on them.
I’ve seen them at AudioGold. I bet they’re a fucker to own but they’re very cool. -
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Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
My Uncle's hi-fi had the long spindle and arm, I used to stack singles as a kid, I never realised about the whole LP side aspect of it though
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Registered 15 years agoMy gran had a set like that. Used it to blast out her Harry Secombe records. I dunno if the records themselves were made of different material, but I can still remember the smell of them like they are in the room.
I used to collect a lot of vinyl (part of it it still in the garage, part of it got robbed by my brother and taken half way around the world) and its like weed to skunk. -
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Shellac 78s. Mmmmmmm... -
Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou-can-call-me-kal wrote:
I quite like that guy, "chastise audiophiles" - tick!
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Registered 15 years agoOne of my boi's is a bedroom producer and occasionally puts things out through a label who just do bandcamp and whatnot, so whenever he has a tune released, he gets Vinyl Carvers to do him a one off 12" of it. £40 quid a shot for a one off, mail order dubplate is a 90s junglists dreamland. -
Armoured_Bear 29,798 posts
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Registered 9 years agoAny stupidly priced records you're lusting after?
I'd love a nice copy of Animals (PF), either UK or Japan, a met copy starts at 100 quid but can easily be 1000. A weird number of the copies on Discogs are in Russia, no idea if I should be suspicious or not. -
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Registered 15 years agoI’m not really a vinyl chaser, I’m generally happy with represses, even remasters. The things I tend to lust after are the old indie hip hop and electronic records that will never be repressed, that I easily could have got at the time but just didn’t. Some of those really haunt me.
Also not having things like the DOOM or Daft Punk back cat, then something happening which immediately makes them impossible to get, is very annoying. -
Why do some audiophiles seem to insist that an amp makes no difference to the sound? I understand that other things make a bigger difference, but it can be disproved within a few minutes by swapping out an amp. I switched from a Denon AVR3600 AV Receiver to a Cyrus One stereo amp (both a similar price) and the difference was huge.
I'm sure the difference between 2 similarly priced and style of amps is probably pretty small, but I saw people on Reddit claiming a cheap old amp would sound the same as a modern, high end one, and using Science to back themselves up.
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