HW RE: off into dodgy vinyl ness

[Jon Jarrett]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Paul Mather wrote:

> Now that vinyl is a niche market, and pretty much a collector's
> medium, the new vinyl releases tend to be very well pressed, often
> using virgin vinyl.  I've not had the benefit of hearing any (my
> turntable is many, many miles away), but I'd imagine such audiophile
> pressings would sound superb.

        I've got a couple of decent pressings (the Gates of Dawn releases
of Steven Wilson stuff most rapidly spring to mind) and they are rather
gorgeous, both in sound and as artefacts. I can tell I'm listening to
vinyl, partly because my stereo's turntable has a silly low output and
has to be turned up, so more line noise; but the vinyl surface noise I get
off something like my old Flicknife _Zones_ is fabulously absent.

        I'm curious as to this idea of recycled vinyl; what was it being
recycled from? Not old records surely!

        Oh, and while I'm on the subject, does anyone know if such things
as one-channel pre-amps are available which might solve my turntable
problem? Yours all,
                    Jon

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