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Old 24th March 2009
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Originally Posted by roddierod View Post
How old are the albums? Because if they need to be played at 78RPM then your going to need a special turntable. The only one I know if in current production is the Rega Planar 78.
I was going to mention the same thing. The old records also used a different stylus geometry. You want a spherical one for those, whereas the newer ones use some variation on an elliptical shape.
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There are a different schools of though on wet versus dry cleaning. I prefer dry cleaning, but I think it all depends on your ear.
*grin* Clearly I come out on the other side.

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I also prefer converting to flac or wav as mp3 sound muddy to me but that all depends on how you intend to listen to the convert audio.
Agreed. Have you played with oversampling at all? Or is "Red Book" format good enough when you do the A/D conversion?
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