OT: Turntables (was RE: Brainboost.com)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:01:10PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:31:15PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:18:22PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > > > Clicks and pops come from treating LPs like magazines and not
> > > > like books. I also have a vacuum system for LP, and you can
> > > > remove almost all clicks and pops with wet-playing. I found a
> > > > replacement for my old Lenco Wet Playing attachemnt on a German
> > > > site, but got no repsonse from my English letter to the people
> > > > there.

> > > At the price of reducing the life of the album sharply, and *never*
> > > being able to play it dry again, or so I'm informed.

> > Not true.  I've played wet, and I've also vacuumed, and I have LPs
> > that are 30+ years old that sound new.  The 50 year old ones
> > suffered from cheap players but I have those replaced - execpt the
> > ones that went through a flood and they require vaccuum first and
> > then wet-play to sound silent

> I was misinformed.

It seemed to be spoken of a lot and that was bantered around a bit.
I've often found that negative comments get pushed around by people
who have never done it.

> :-)

> > So if you really want to know all about them go to:
> > http://www.elpj.com and drool.

> Uh, Bill?  I don't think *that's* what "wet playing" means..

I answered two things in one message.  The elpj.com is the laser
player.    The "them" in the above was meant to be the laser
players - and the special of $4980 :-)  But at that price it's
still cheaper than top of the line analog.

Bill
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