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Today's find!!!
I just picked up, at the SA, a copy of Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams"
soundtrack and Lou Reed's "Berlin"- as well as a "low-rent" 45 minute blank. I just aboot peed myself finding the Patsy Cline! I've been looking for it for 10+ years now. I popped it in on the ride home and DAMN it sounds good. I had always assumed the later Columbia House tapes sounded bad, but this one is excellent! Nice highs, good lows. There were a ton of mid-80s country CH tapes, some sealed, but nothing I'd listen to- mainly MOR "country". A few Merle Haggard, but the only song of his I like is "You Take Me For Granted", and it wasn't on any of 'em. The vinyl of "Sweet Dreams" I have is from RCA Music Service- it's gawdawful. Blech. It sounds (and looks) like polystyrene- well, the first half of the side sounds okay but halfway thru it gets bad and by the end, fatigue sets in and the ears start to bleed. The vinyl itself is nice and shiny, but upon closer inspection the grooves have an almost whitish look when the disc is tilted. I'm gonna pitch it. Does anyone out there have her other "remix" album, "Always", that they'd be willing to sell, on 8 track or LP??? |
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Today's find!!!
On 9 Oct 2006 11:49:46 -0700, "Stereo__8"
wrote: I just picked up, at the SA, a copy of Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams" snip Rare. soundtrack and Lou Reed's "Berlin"- snip Not as rare, but more valuable. as well as a "low-rent" 45 minute blank. I just aboot peed myself finding the Patsy Cline! I've been looking for it for 10+ years now. I popped it in on the ride home and DAMN it sounds good. I had always assumed the later Columbia House tapes sounded bad, but this one is excellent!snip Not true. Later CRC "gray" carts were far better in quality than the original "TC8s" because of newer dupe line equipment. I've never run across a newer "gray" cart that wasn't better than the DayGlo orange original. Example: Chicago's first album was released on the usual TC8s, and these had the usual frequency response issues as well as notable distortion. I'd gotten multiple copies, and found each to have similar quality problems with the dupe process. A later CRC rerelease was free of all of them and sounds almost as good as the LP. The vinyl of "Sweet Dreams" I have is from RCA Music Service- it's gawdawful. Blech. It sounds (and looks) like polystyrene- well, the first half of the side sounds okay but halfway thru it gets bad and by the end, fatigue sets in and the ears start to bleed. The vinyl itself is nice and shiny, but upon closer inspection the grooves have an almost whitish look when the disc is tilted. I'm gonna pitch it. snip It's been played on a "nudo" turntable, probably with a worn out sapphire stylus in a non-compliant ceramic cartridge. Those garbage turntable/cartridge combinations are responsible for about 90% of the rejected records I've collected over the years. If you see a whitish cast to the 45° groove wall surface, it's usually caused by heavy tracking force, no anti-skating facility and, more often than not, a worn out stylus. I can always tell when a disk has always been played on a good table with a good cartrdige...groove wall damage is minimal in comparison, if there's any at all. Even awful "flea store" disks that have more fingerprints on them that the Feebs' AFIS system can clean up and sound almost as good as new, whereas even well handled records played on crappy "all in ones" or "consoles" with those awful, record butchering changers will have permanent distortion caused by groove wall damage. |
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Today's find!!!
Consoles may *look* cool, but they are sooo trash. Too bad. I stated
here that I'd love to find one and fix it up with a decent receiver/amp and magnetic cartridge turntable. And isolate the hell outta the speakers. I think I saw one on eBay with a mag cartridge turntable. As much as I love the Velvet Underground, I have no desire to get any more Lou Reed albums. "Berlin" is blech. I don't like it at all. Eh well, I have a trader. The "Sweet Dreams" is a white-shelled cart. I picked up the Merle & Willie tapes just now- my dad loves them, and he's had some health problems, so I'm gonna CD them for him. One thing about the "Sweet Dreams" soundtrack: it sounds good on my car player and a couple of mid-to-lower-high fi decks but on the Pioneer the treble sounds a *bit*... gritty. Kinda like the LP. I wish I still had the cassette, just to compare them. Maybe it's a mastering error? It's listenable, but not as much as it could be. An aside comment: I picked up Culture Club's "From Luxury to Heartache" (the LP done with George all smacked out- not a bad LP though)- I compared "Move Away" from the LP to the import DVD of "Culture Club's Greatest Hits". Guess which one sounds better? The LP!! That surprised me, especially from mid-80s vinyl. Much wider soundstage and the treble has more detail. |
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Today's find!!!
Stereo__8 wrote: Consoles may *look* cool, but they are sooo trash. So white-trash, like those who sell them from their vacation shack in Drums PA. |
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Today's find!!!
On 10 Oct 2006 15:22:49 -0700, "The Dummy From Drums"
wrote: Stereo__8 wrote: Consoles may *look* cool, but they are sooo trash. So white-trash, like those who sell them from their vacation shack in Drums PA. snip Must be "Triple D"...the Dumpster Diver from Drums! |
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