"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Dave Matthews" wrote in message
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If you don't mind me saying so, I think your approach to vinyl is wrong -
there is no way it will compete for silence/noise floor with CD or 24/192
and it's is a Fool's Errand to try.

Oh, indeed - I agree... up to a point. In a previous post frankwm
mentioned his Nimbus disks - my 27-year-old copy of Tangerine Dream's
"70-80" boxset was also done by Nimbus and its surface noise is virtually
non-existent while there are no clicks/pops at all (indeed the tonal
characteristics of the musical signal is preferable to my ears than
subsequent CD releases of the same tracks)....

Another LP I transcribed once (Roy Budd's "The Final Option"
soundtrack - from Varese Sarabande, 1982) produced a brilliant result with
no fancy cleaning technique other than a velvet pad and Hunt EDA carbon
brush. Yes, there is *some* surface noise there but it's perfectly
acceptable.. in fact it's largely covered by the hiss from the master tape!

On the other hand, despite owning four copies of Mainframe's "Tenants of
the Latticework" (1983), I can't get a decent transcription from any of
them. Although all copies are original pressings, I can only assume they
were always pressed on low-quality vinyl - in which case maybe even a
professional RCM couldn't help much...?

Meanwhile the "throwaway" LP I've been experimenting on (as mentioned in
previous posts) underwent such a huge improvement to its surface noise when
wet-playing it that I would have been happy to use that for transcription
(albeit it with mild further digital "clean-up" and the now-occasional
clicks/pops digitally removed).

... I suppose what I'm wondering is, even accepting that LPs will never
render CD-like quality, irrespective of any amount of cleaning done to them,
is it still worth forking out for a professional RCM? Frankwm doesn't seem
to think so.

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Cheers,


Dave