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| AUDIO-PURIST?
If
you are seriously interested in very old vinyl and 78 rpm shellacs, then
visit Vad Lyd on the Internet.
Jørgen
Vad knows more about 78 rpm than most people wants to know, and he has
some very interesting solutions
Press
the HMV dog to get to the links page and Vad Lyd:
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It is still
possible
to buy new turntables - some with the possibility of playing 78 rpm
shellacs. If 33 and 45 rpm is enough, you have a lot
of machines to chose between. I'm
personally keen on tinkering with old turntables, and I'm not that much
of an audiophile, so I am the right one to guide you to the
best new machine at a given price, but do avoid the cheapest
super-market models, often sold with USB-connection for your computer,
free software, flimsy tonearm and a lousy cartridge.
If you want to have fun playing records, start to listen to a ProJect
Debut and then a model twice og triple it's price. Then you'll
understand a bit about difference and similarities in tables with
different price tags. And be sure that a few hundred Euros or Dollars
spent on a better cartridge or complete turntable is often a
good investment in future pleasure listening to vinyl or shellac
records. Find
a sensible hi-fi dealer and make her or him demonstrate what is in the
grooves, listening to different cartridges/turntables. If you listen
carefully, you'll probably be amazed how nice a good turntable and
a well made record matches the sound of a good cd-machine with the same
material. Wider
stylus for 78 rpm
If you want to play
more than a few shellacs, it´ll be a good investment to buy a special
stylus for this purpose.
The grooves of the
78
rpm records are wider, and playing them with a stylus for 33 and 45 rpm
records will result in poorer reproduction than necessary.
Ortofon and Shure
are among the numerous companies still offering pickups and styli for 78 rpm reproduction.
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To
use a Moving Magnet pickup, your radio/amplifier must have a
phono-input. The cartridge here is the now discontinued Audio-Technica
derived Linn K9 that was quite dynamic at it's price. |
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your radio or amplifier has no input for Moving Magnet (or the more expensive
Moving Coil), you need a small pre-amplifier, also called RIAA-amplifier. |
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The
RIAA pre-amplifier is connected between the turntable and the radio/amplifier
- use a line input (often referred to as "aux").
When
you shop for this black box be careful to choose one matching your equipment.
Moving Coil (MC) pickups call for a special pre-amplifier. |
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