Preserving your old LP records

Subject: Preserving your old LP records
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:54 AM

So you thought you've pirated everything huh?

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: gnomad
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:07 AM

Ingenious, but why? A digital copy is so much easier, and more useable. Or is it the old Everest thing - "Because it's there"?

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:38 AM

I bet it doesn't do the original vinyl record any good.

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:48 AM

One should CLEAN the original carefully BEFORE attempting this. ANY dust, and the copy will be unplayable.

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: Van
Date: 18 May 06 - 09:51 AM

How about keeping them in the covers they came with. Simple but effective.

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: John Hardly
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:11 AM

Vinyl is a very new technology for the average mudcatter. The average mudcatter is still trying to figure out how to pirate copies of their hot wax recordings.

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:38 PM

I have a good buddy who is a real hifier & is gearing up to digitize my LPs. He has actually borrowed a packful of them. He has a special turntable just to clean them. The turntable that will actually play them has little holes in it to suck the disc down so it will be really really flat. He has to be careful where he plugs in the vacuum pump. He is still tweaking the software. In the meantime, I still have a Japanese device that plays them in the old-fashioned way.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: You shall love your crooked neighbor With your crooked heart. :||

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 May 06 - 12:17 PM

We have two of them!

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 May 06 - 12:20 PM

Oops, the Google ad at the bottom caught my eye as I hit "submit message." We have three of them in the house, if you count the beautiful and functional Victrola in the front room. And during WWII my father picked up a portable Victrola in Burma on the road (literally--in the middle of it, set up as if it had been wound up and played while the British soldiers marched out). That's out in the garage.

SRS

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: frogprince
Date: 19 May 06 - 01:13 PM

Man, all this newfangled stuff; I didn't know there was any way to hear music after it was performed except sing in the mountains and listen to the echoes!

Subject: RE: Preserving your old LP records
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 19 May 06 - 08:45 PM

As you play all your new CDs, / Give a thought to your old LPs. / Throw them out with a cold cold heart, / Or transform those LPs into art.

Spray them gold like the harvest moon. / Hang them up in the living room. / Go right now to where paint is sold. / Buy a can, go outside, spray them gold.

--Berryman & Berryman

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. :||