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This thread has really influenced my purchases here lately. 
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The Senator Giroux posted:This thread has really influenced my purchases here lately. Nice buys. I wish I could find some Sparks albums.
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May 25, 2018 23:33
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speaking of Sparks... https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/999798247169384448?s=21
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May 25, 2018 23:40
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So I ended up picking up the Sony PS-LX210. I have come across a couple of issues. I know I have to change the needle (the seller told me) and I know which model needle I need to pick up. What I can't figure out is if the reason the arm runs across the record and keeps skipping constantly is a problem of the needle being worn or a problem with the arm. There is an anti skip dial but it doesn't seem to help. I don't have a scale to test the arm strength either. How can one adjust the arm force and do records skip because of a worn needle?thanks.
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May 25, 2018 23:41
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e: Wrong thread
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May 26, 2018 00:00
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Wizgot posted:So I ended up picking up the Sony PS-LX210. I have come across a couple of issues. I know I have to change the needle (the seller told me) and I know which model needle I need to pick up. What I can't figure out is if the reason the arm runs across the record and keeps skipping constantly is a problem of the needle being worn or a problem with the arm. There is an anti skip dial but it doesn't seem to help. I don't have a scale to test the arm strength either. How can one adjust the arm force and do records skip because of a worn needle?thanks. You need to manually balance the tone arm. Turn the counter weight until the tonearm is pointing upward then slowly turn it back until it is perpendicular? Is that the right term? To the platter. Now it should be at 0 grams, you might have a 2nd dial that you can set to 0. Now turn the weight to the suggested weight for your cartridge. Set anti skate to about the same, I if the weight is 2g set it to 2.
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May 26, 2018 00:27
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trdn89 posted:speaking of Sparks...  This lady rules. Also: holy balls that setlist got an upgrade.  What the Hell Is It This Time? Hasta Manana Monsieur Unaware Propaganda At Home, At Work, At Play Tryouts for the Human Race Probably Nothing Missionary Position Hippopotamus B.C. I Wish You Were Fun The Rhythm Thief Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth My Way (Claude François cover) When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" The Number One Song in Heaven This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us My Baby's Taking Me Home Encore: Change Amateur Hour Suburban Homeboy
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May 26, 2018 00:44
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I trust my eyes as much as i trust my ears and just bought a scale. $14 to Know For Sure. I spent 10 minutes getting it level by eye, zeroed out the counterweight, weighed it on the scale, found out it was a little over a gram too heavy. Buy the scale
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May 26, 2018 00:45
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Wizgot posted:So I ended up picking up the Sony PS-LX210. I have come across a couple of issues. I know I have to change the needle (the seller told me) and I know which model needle I need to pick up. What I can't figure out is if the reason the arm runs across the record and keeps skipping constantly is a problem of the needle being worn or a problem with the arm. There is an anti skip dial but it doesn't seem to help. I don't have a scale to test the arm strength either. How can one adjust the arm force and do records skip because of a worn needle?thanks. So... this turntable apparently has a really wacky balancing system. This is an image from a manual for the LX310 and LX311. The 311 has a simple adjustment screw, but the 310 (which I believe yours is like) adjusted differently. I don't really understand it but maybe someone else can chime in.  I think the gist of it is you just slide the weight until it's at the right tracking force (1.5-2.5 grams for your cartridge). I don't know what the pivot screw nonsense is. wa27 fucked around with this message at 00:54 on May 26, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 00:52
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pwn posted:I trust my eyes as much as i trust my ears and just bought a scale. $14 to Know For Sure. I have that same scale, it's a good one. Edit--> oh wow, yeah looking at that diagram above I would get a scale unless there is some standard weight like a dime or other coins you could use that you know the weight of. Boinks fucked around with this message at 00:56 on May 26, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 00:52
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They just released the Prince version of Nothing Compares 2 U as a single. I picked that up today and it sounds great.
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May 26, 2018 01:12
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CPL593H posted:They just released the Prince version of Nothing Compares 2 U as a single. I picked that up today and it sounds great. Awesome. I dont have to keep waffling on buying a $120 copy of it from Discogs.
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May 26, 2018 04:34
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Weekend haul at a garage sale. 10 bucks for all of them. 
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May 26, 2018 17:53
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Rad. What are the other X albums like, compared to Los Angeles and Wild Gift?
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May 26, 2018 19:18
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Flaggy posted:Weekend haul at a garage sale. 10 bucks for all of them. I'd like to know where these garage sales are that have poo poo like this instead of Barry Manilow comps and showtunes from the 50s.
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May 26, 2018 21:02
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CPL593H posted:I'd like to know where these garage sales are that have poo poo like this instead of Barry Manilow comps and showtunes from the 50s. Also last time I was in a Goodwill, they were asking ridiculous prices like  for the usual beat up 70s Country and lite rock. It took a decade or two but news of The Vinyl Resurgence has finally made it to Susan at Goodwill Industries International, Inc. Finding cheap records at Goodwill. It was fun while it lasted
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May 26, 2018 21:19
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pwn posted:For real. Seriously this. A year ago, Goodwill was selling every record for a dollar. I went last week and almost everything was at $3 a record, even lovely 50s records no one wants.
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May 26, 2018 21:25
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Now is a great time for CDs at Goodwill though
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May 26, 2018 23:42
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wa27 posted:So... this turntable apparently has a really wacky balancing system. This is an image from a manual for the LX310 and LX311. The 311 has a simple adjustment screw, but the 310 (which I believe yours is like) adjusted differently. I don't really understand it but maybe someone else can chime in. Thank you for the info. I will test this out later on. I am currently buying a replacement needle since the seller told me that it should be replaced soon. This pages tells me that the repalecement cartridge for my turntable is a Sony VL-42G VL42G cartridge and a Sony ND-142G ND142G needle stylus. I am not sure what the difference is between the two but I am planning to buy an Audio Technica 00974-DS-OR cartridge that says it is compatible with my turntable (sony ps-LX-210)(here). Am I correct? Sorry for all the questions but I just want to double check. Thanks guys.
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May 26, 2018 23:44
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pwn posted:For real. The thrift store I got to usually just throws all the records in a bin for a buck but occasionally they put one in a display case with a price tag. The other day I was in there and there was a copy of some Toto album for ten bucks. Meanwhile I went in there last summer and found a pristine first pressing of Husker Du's Zen Arcade and bought it for less than a dollar along with some other stuff that fetches decent but not especially high prices. All in all I got about a hundred dollars worth of records for under six dollars. So they're trying to price gouge but they don't know how.
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May 26, 2018 23:45
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Wizgot posted:Thank you for the info. I will test this out later on. I am currently buying a replacement needle since the seller told me that it should be replaced soon. That stylus should be compatible with your cartridge. The cartridge is the part with the wires plugged in, the stylus is the needle.
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May 27, 2018 00:02
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Boinks posted:Now is a great time for CDs at Goodwill though cassettes float around 50 cents at the ones around me, and 8-tracks are around 25c when they show up.
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May 27, 2018 01:47
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Toe Rag posted:Rad. What are the other X albums like, compared to Los Angeles and Wild Gift? I liked Under a Big Black Sun, but they get to be diminishing returns and by the time you get to See How We Are, its weird alt-country
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May 27, 2018 02:41
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Grand Prize Winner posted:cassettes float around 50 cents at the ones around me, and 8-tracks are around 25c when they show up. UK shops and charity places pretty much dropped cassettes even though there are a lot of good ones out there and they still sound as good as records. Vinyls on the other hand are populating everywhere more and more.
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May 27, 2018 22:34
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Uncle Kitchener posted:they still sound as good as records. Not even close to being true.
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May 28, 2018 00:04
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finally got my favourite EP of the last year  
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May 28, 2018 10:01
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Great haul this weekend, can't believe all the rare finds!
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May 28, 2018 17:50
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Flaggy posted:Weekend haul at a garage sale. 10 bucks for all of them. for real, special beat service is one of my all-time favorite records - it's just so fun
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May 29, 2018 10:16
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CPL593H posted:I'd like to know where these garage sales are that have poo poo like this instead of Barry Manilow comps and showtunes from the 50s. This haul was from the "rich" section of my town. hexwren posted:for real, special beat service is one of my all-time favorite records - it's just so fun Agreed.
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May 29, 2018 18:06
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I met a record dealer through another dealer who i had met on Craigslist and I can definitely say that networking is the absolute way to go if you are serious about collecting. First off, the guys I met and talked to are really cool and super knowledgeable about tons of music and music production. This guy gets new inventory of really top quality stuff about every week and calls me up so I can come by and have a first look at it before he organizes it and puts stuff on ebay/discogs. The guy I met up with this weekend is incredibly knowledgeable so its not like I am finding $100 records that I am getting for a dollar, but he usually sells any 45 for $1 (everything is VG+) and if I buy a stack, he usually drops it to 50 cents a 45. LP's are $3 for most of them, all media is VG+ and the covers vary, but I have gotten some really quality stuff. He let me grab a "Moods of Marvin Gaye" LP for $10 and the thing is in pristine condition (see it on discogs for at least $20). The cool part was that after I had put together my LP's and 45's that I could afford and paid him, he told me "Ok now pick out 5 more 45's and 5 more LP's for free". And after that he said "Ok now let's go to the garage and you can grab anything you want, it's all free." Now, there was a lot of country in the garage that I wasn't interested in, but still plenty of great 45's like Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, Doobie Brothers, etc. Meeting good people, talking music, and digging for records. I don't know if it gets much better than that.
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May 29, 2018 18:20
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Forced Exposure's %15 off sale for *IN STOCK* (not LOW STOCK, bummer) ends today, just FYI.
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May 29, 2018 18:43
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CPL593H posted:Not even close to being true. Type IV tapes with Dolby-S sound incredibly warm with no noise and their quality is excellent.
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May 29, 2018 21:20
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Uncle Kitchener posted:Type IV tapes with Dolby-S sound incredibly warm with no noise and their quality is excellent. Yes, I know. But those are a very specific tape, the tape decks with Dolby S are fairly uncommon and the record labels usually put commercially released music on lower quality tapes.
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May 29, 2018 22:39
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I've been getting big into cassettes recently for some reason. I've got a few hundred and probably less than half of them even use chrome tape, much less metal tape (I've never even seen a type-IV in the wild). Most use Dolby B at least. While I like collecting them and I listen to them quite often, I'm under no illusion that they sound anywhere near as good as digital or even vinyl. Call it "warmth" if you want, but the high end just isn't there. Tape hiss has never bothered me, and neither has vinyl pops and clicks. Muffled sound is no good, though.
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May 30, 2018 00:08
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my car has a working tape deck so i buy tapes on occasion and listen to them in my car.
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May 30, 2018 00:23
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I have a bunch of pre-orders rolling in but unfortunately almost all of them have arrived with significant warps. Prince Nothing Compares 2 U - Warped to the point that it warbles. Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull - Pretty bad warp, might affect the sound, but definitely big and noticeable. Donald Austin - Crazy Legs - Huge warp The Nineteenth Hole - Smilin' - Big gentle warp Been in touch with Southern Lord and they are trying to track down another silver copy, but I told them I would take the regular press. I have been wanting that album for a while. Sent an email out to LITA, hopefully can get a replacement copy of Crazy Legs, Smilin' isn't that bad so not gonna press my luck with that. I don't know if this is a pressing plant problem or how they are stored or shipped but new records are such a crapshoot. But, I did get to see Mduo Moctar again. If you are into Tinariwen or desert blues check them out if you get a chance. I bought this record the first time I saw them and had it signed.  More pictures... Madlib arrived in pristine condtion  Warped Earth...  And some funky stuff... also warped. 
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May 30, 2018 00:54
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wa27 posted:I've been getting big into cassettes recently for some reason. I've got a few hundred and probably less than half of them even use chrome tape, much less metal tape (I've never even seen a type-IV in the wild). Most use Dolby B at least. Please support your local noise scene by buying their scum tapes, thank you
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May 30, 2018 01:00
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sporklift posted:Warped Wax Assuming you live anywhere north of the equator, summer is always a dicey time to ship records. They end up sitting on a hot truck at various points along the way and if they aren't packaged just so they'll warp pretty easily.
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May 30, 2018 01:39
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JACK WHITE, SEND ME MY TROUT MASK REPLICA.  I know they said early June and I don't care. Gimme.
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May 30, 2018 04:02
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caligulamprey posted:JACK WHITE, SEND ME MY TROUT MASK REPLICA. 
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