slartibartfast wrote: > I think I've just had a bit of an epiphany [emoji3]. All the years I > have had LP records I always blamed a dodgy sounding one on a worn > stylus. The only cleaning I did was a carbon fibre brush before playing. > > I was fed up with sibilance and a bit of surface noise on a Sting album > so thought I had nothing to lose by cleaning it. Don't laugh but I used > a multi surface cleaning wipe from Tesco. Now it sounds like a totally > different record, in a good way. Sibilance is gone and high frequency > details which were hidden are now clear. > I was going to buy a new stylus, now I think maybe a cleaning machine > would be a better idea. > > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk
I've just come back to vinyl after a 20 year break where I tried to obtain replacement CD's for my favourite Vinyl as well as collecting loads of new music. I had, in the past, recorded my vinyl to mp3 and aac before the days of flac and decreased storage cost/capacity and then subsequently ditched my vinyl and the recordings I had made. I plumped for the Audio Technica LP5X which has Line Level USB and Phono Outputs and quite a reasonable cartridge but no matter how I align the cartridge the channel levels are not balanced and I need to correct in Windows settings. I had the same record cleaning issues as you and tried a baby wipe which indeed seemed to improve things but I did find that paper residue tended to end up on the stylus on the last tracks of each side. I plumped for a Groove Washer cleaning kit (about £20.00 from Amazon) which does a pretty reasonable job. I use Vinyl Studio on d6dg's suggestion and find this very useful and relatively easy. He's got track clean-up and editing down to 10 minutes but it does take me about half an hour, mainly cleaning up the audio between tracks. Next year it will be 60 years since I bought my first Buddy Holly LP on Rawtenstall Market. I've still got that one but how my tastes have widened, particularly since I bought my first Squeezebox Classic about 15 years ago. *Music Store and VPN Server: *Synology DS215J NAS *Study Server:* LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *Refurbished 1962 RCA Stereo Console Server/Player *LMS 8.2.0 on Pi 4B pCp 8.0.0/IQ Audio DAC+ *LAN Players: x2:* pCp 8.0.0 on Pi 3B / IQ Audio DAC+ *LAN Player/ADC* pCp 8.0.0 on Pi 3B / IQ audio Codec + *PC Players: x2: *Squeezelite on Windows 10 PC. *VPN Mobile & Car Player:* Material/SqueezePlayer on Android Phone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ian_heys's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2629 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115093
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