Gene C

Looks good. Nice job!

Welcome Kennett! Yeah, photos are a good thing around here. Glad you already know Greg.

Yep, that's me. The old hitchin post as Dom coined it. ;-)

Nice! Have fun breakin those babies in.

Cool score!

Welcome DAC! Sweet looking setup!

I don't think dano said it enough yet so.... Welcome to the site. Cruise the trends and feel free to jump in. Enjoy your stay and have your say. J/K Welcome aboard, hope you stay awhile.

Those are good headphones for your C-1. But if you drop some bucks into a headphone tube amp your going to want to go anywhere from 200 ohms on up to 600 ohms say.

I would listen to them first before geting into a hedphone tube amp. Tube amps could sound better depending on the specs of the headphones. The higher the ohm rating the more detail your going to hear from what I can tell with my WA6.

Ever think about getting a Photobucket account to upload those photos here seeing since some people here don't facebook? That is if you want to share them with us..... It's easy getting a Photobucket account, I'm sure there are plenty here that would love to see and hear all about your speakers you speak of and know that would be a nice contribution from you.

That sounds great. Do you have any photos? Have you posted them here on the site? Would be interesting to see these...

I was listening to Hotel California a few hours ago when I heard it for the first time, never paid attention to it. I have heard it on cassete tapes in the past but never on record before. I thought I was trippin.

You ever notice when you put a record on occasionally you'll hear a faint pre echo, groove echo or print through 1 or 2 seconds into the song before it starts at it's regular sound level? There are two theory's. 1. It is caused at the master tapes end. 2. It's caused at the pressing's end. Which one is it?

I was going to use just my C-1 or C-11 pre's headphone jack. Should I be thinking along different lines? No, not if your budget is $200.00. I edited thread above with some links and info you can do some reading on. Let me know if you have any questions about the headphones I use.

What are you plugging these headphones into? If they are for general purpose I also have a pair of and would recommend these. Also have the Beyerdynamic DT660 32 ohm, DT880 600 ohm and Sony MDR-150. Here's a post Steve started last year 50 Headphones Compared and if your interested a thread I started last year as well Headphone Tube Amp.

Record Grooves The average LP has about 1,500 feet (460 m) of groove on each side, or about a third of a mile. The tangential needle speed relative to the disc surface is approximately one mile per hour, on average. It travels fastest on the outside edge, unlike audio CDs, which change their speed of rotation to provide constant linear velocity (CLV). (By contrast, CDs play from the inner radius outward, the reverse of phonograph records.) This allows the lock groove effect used by The Beatles on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, on which the last track, "A Day in the Life", runs into a continuous loop that will repeat as long as the record player is on. Thin, closely spaced spiral grooves that allowed for increased playing time on a 33⅓ rpm microgroove LP led to a tinny pre-echo warning of upcoming loud sounds. The cutting stylus unavoidably transferred some of the subsequent groove wall's impulse signal into the previous groove wall. It was discernible by some listeners throughout certain recordings but a quiet passage followed by a loud sound would allow anyone to hear a faint pre-echo of the loud sound occurring 1.8 seconds ahead of time. This problem could also appear as "post"-echo, with a tinny ghost of the sound arriving 1.8 seconds after its main impulse. The RIAA equalization curve (used since 1954) de-emphasizes the bass notes during recording, allowing closer spacing of record grooves and hence more playing time. On playback, the turntable cartridge pre-amplifier reverses the RIAA curve to flatten out the frequencies again.

I'll go along with that too.

Does it matter how thick a vinyl record is? Most new albums, particularly those released by independent labels, will be very well made and sound great on even a mediocre stereo system. A lot of new records will have some sticker announcing that it’s on “180 gram” vinyl, and that’s a good thing, especially if you’re an audiophile. The thicker, heavier vinyl will degrade more slowly than a thinner pressing and the records will stand up to repeat play a little better. That said, all vinyl degrades a tiny bit every time you play it. That’s just the way it is.

Turned out real good dano, that's a fine job. Your too critical of your own work.

Welcome. Your account was probably deleted due to inactivity. Stick around, post on some threads, be a contributor to the site in anyway that you can and you won't disappear...again. Hope to see you around.

Nice scores Perry. That must have been fun to browse through.

LOL! Spent $84.00 on 4 albums today, the Blue Note was $50.00 new. If I would have stayed out longer may have spent north of $300.00, but between talking with Greg and Gary today I hit the road later than expected.

Hit up Stinkweeds an hour ago. Wanted to head over to Revolver and Tracks in Wax, but didn't want to get caught up in the early Friday rush hour traffic. Got some good picks. The Blue Note was new.