ian_heys wrote: > > 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. I used Cool Edit in the past but it was acquired by > Adobe and it's price rocketed. > > 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.
Maybe the channel balance issue is to do with the built-in phono stage/ADC? Can you bypass this and take the output to an external phono stage? The first LP I bought would have been about 44 years ago - Dark Side of the Moon. In the same transaction I bought Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Phoenix Records on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, sadly long-gone. Both those records disappeared in a burglary - I got most of my LPs back, but not the more mainstream stuff. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 4/pCP7.0/LMS8.1.2/Material with files on QNAP TS-251A Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 > Rega Fono Mini; Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired), 1 x SqueezeAMP *Office:* LMS8.0.0 running on Raspberry Pi3; Raspberry Pi 3 player with touchscreen/piCorePlayer/IQaudIO DAC and Amp *Portable:* Raspberry Pi 3B/pCP7.0.1/LMS8.1.2/Material, files on Seagate portable drive, powered via power brick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115093
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