In Reply to: Re: did you have left and right only with no center? posted by hairydog on July 25, 2006 at 16:17:21:
I am a classical person, play ~80% LP's; of those from my own personal collections and from a collection given to me by a friend who just returned from over 10 yrs overseas, they play almost perfectly with only occasional noise or surface clicks.I started a collection for my family in the mid 60's. Those are about 80% clean, some originally with noise (esp. DGG and RCA, but Decca/London and Philips are silent for the most part). My own collection from the late 70's on during grad and professional school has over 85% clean surface LP's and sound great.
This year, I started to buy thrift and ebay. 70% are ok to almost perfect used, once cleaned, and I do the sink thing with DIY water and alcohol with detergent mix. No fancy machines or synthetic cleaning, not yet anyway. Most of my purchases are $1 or less now each LP.
The sound on good condition clean LP's is definitely superior except for some SACD's.
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Follow Ups
- gave you the wrong impression... - docw 17:44:10 07/25/06 (3)
- Re: gave you the wrong impression... - hairydog 06:05:51 07/26/06 (2)
- you don't accept email, so send me one if you care re ebay record folks - docw 11:48:52 07/26/06 (0)
- agree with your conclusions... - docw 06:52:34 07/26/06 (0)