Karyn

Willy Jones [Cakewalk
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I've actually come to really enjoy the silence (insert Depeche Mode reference here) between flipping sides.  Not all current music takes advantage of it but there is definitely an emphasis that gets put on certain tracks by the physical attention involved in getting up and turning it over.  Sometimes the space almost becomes part of the album.

Jeff Waynes'  War of the Worlds is a classic example of this.  The short break you get while turning over / changing to disk 2 is just right to seperate the sections of the work.

I agree, the silence whilst changing sides or disks is certainly the best part of that particular work.

Is Dave going to need to know whether he has a Moving Magnet or Moving Cartridge cartridge?

 
Good point ... MM is probably more common so some of the more budget minded phono pre's only have MM inputs (such as the Audio Technica) but the audiophile community like their MC's.

I am not trying to plug Needle Doctor but I looked more closely at their site and they also carry the Pro-Ject line of pre's along with many others with some nice descriptions.

http://www.needledoctor.com/

I was thinking under $100 is if its possible to get something good at that price point.

Is Dave going to need to know whether he has a Moving Magnet or Moving Cartridge cartridge?

Yes.  Mine has a switch on the back to handle either type.

that would be moving magnet or MM

the deal with the moving coils (or MC) is that the design typically has a lower output than a moving magnet so the moving coil input on a phono preamp has a higher gain than the moving magnet input
 
personally, I think you are perfectly safe with a phono pre that only has a moving magnet input

the moving coils are typically the domain of audiophiles and you could literally spend thousands of dollars on a moving coil cartridge (that said, there are good moderately priced moving coil cartridges so you need to be aware when you buy a new "needle")

I don't miss them as much as I used to, but I miss the overall relation that we had with music back then, when you had to walk to the record store, pick the one thing you wanted to ear and then just sit there and listen over and over, studying the artwork and reading the credits. Listening to music on computers certainly doesn't help, as it's an invitation to multitask...

You buy an album on iTunes, you start vaguely reading the credits, and you inexplicably end up on wikipedia reading about the Mexican Starring Frog of Sri Lanka because you clicked on a series of links when all you really wanted to know in the first place was who else that engineer has worked with... But that was like, 3 minutes ago, before your attention shifted for the 5th time. :s

scratchy crackle crackle pop

In recent years I have bought some CDs to replace vinyl editions that had some scratches and pops on them.
When playing the CDs, I still hear the pops and scratches in the expected places.
Can anyone say 'Pavlov'?

57Gregy


In recent years I have bought some CDs to replace vinyl editions that had some scratches and pops on them.
When playing the CDs, I still hear the pops and scratches in the expected places.
Can anyone say 'Pavlov'?

It's been over twenty years since I haven't listened to the vinyl yet I still hear them every time I listen to the first Black Sabbath album - the pops and scratches are forever associated with that one...  along w/ a certain quite distinct smell. ;)