On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:25:58 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke
wrote:

Two random remarks:

Java Jive wrote in
:

I also rejigged the pickup wiring underneath the arm mounting so that
it drops off at a smaller radius. As the arm tracks through its
maximum sweep, the drop-off point now only moves through an arc of
about 5mm in length, whereas after the first rewiring it was moving
through about 50mm, and as expected this has greatly improved the
tracking.

A tangential tracking turntable would be a solution.

Hardly a solution, but maybe a slight improvement. Although I suspect
if redressing the leads is proving to be an issue, implementing
tangential tracking will be a rather larger one.


Yes this worked. I've now re-recorded the entire collection, and
listened critically to the most important half or so of it.

You digitised your entire record collection? IMO it's not economical to
digitise vinyl in DIY as long as the same albums are available on CD
commercially. You'll spend 2 hours minimum recording, post processing
and burning the tracks of a single album, and that is not counting the
time for scanning the artwork. Unless you value or own free time very
low, just buying the same album on CD is much more cost effective.

This all very well, but I have found that the both mix and mastering
tend to get wrecked when old vinyl recordings are re-issued as CDs. I
have recorded most of my vinyl onto hard drives and performed some
reasonably radical cosmetic surgery to remove the crackles, hiss and
rumble. These are now recordings I will listen to quite often.

d