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Old 10-02-2010, 11:09 AM
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Hi everybody.

As I said in this post, my vinyl-spinning/listening habits have been reinvigorated after fixing a couple of annoying problems with my turntable. Because of those annoyances, I had stopped transferring some of my old records to digital format. Now that I'm doing it again, I'd like to hear your opinions on a restoring job. Not that I'm looking for a comparison with the direct-from-vinyl sound (as for "how effective was the restoration"), but just the overall sound quality. Here's one track from one of my old "colombian Salsa" records, which is actually in very good shape (as most of my collection), but anyway I applied some filters to reduce clicks, crackle and background noise. Do you think the sound quality is acceptable (at least) from an audiophile perspective? There's absolutely no EQ, as the audio was captured directly from the turntable, with no EQ in-between or applied later. Aside from the filters, I applied one normalization pass (at 96%) to increase the overall output level with no clipping. No compression or any other kind of tweak.

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Old 10-04-2010, 11:27 AM
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Sounds pretty good. Nasty sibilance in the "S"es, especially on the right channel. That could be caused by many things - budget cartridge, worn record, bad stylus, improper tracking force, wrong anti-skate, etc.

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Old 10-04-2010, 11:38 AM
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Sounds pretty good. Nasty sibilance in the "S"es, especially on the right channel. That could be caused by many things - budget cartridge, worn record, bad stylus, improper tracking force, wrong anti-skate, etc.

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I was waiting a comment on the "S"s. The record and the stylus aren't in bad shape. The cartridge is a Pickering V-15, which was the best I could find when I bought the turntable back in 1993 (I don't know if it's actually good or bad). About tracking force and anti-skate, I've never known what's the best way to adjust those variables. I've done it by "feel", but nothing well-fundamented. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you for your comment!
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