I enjoy reading, drooling and listening to all the records available on John Manships website however some of the titles I listen to seem a lot faster than on my turntable, the most recent and obvious Willie Kendricks - Change your Ways. Does the speed alter as its recorded from vinyl to whatever the format is that we listen to on our laptops etc?

i've never listened to music via a laptop, so i have no idea.

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Could it not just be that either their turntable is running too fast or yours too slow? I noticed on a recent sales list from a different dealer the sound clips seemed faster and having bought a record from them and put it on my turntable it indeed was. 

Mmmm....rightly or wrongly, I quite often 'speed up' or 'slow down' tracks by up to 5%, cos I think they sound better! Maybe Mr Manship has done the same ( or not altered the speed from previous disc!)

You would be amazed at how many people haven't a clue how to use basic equipment.

Most turntables are belt driven and don't have strobe lights. They can be miles out.

Also, if someone has been playing with the pitch control and not put it back to -0+ it may not have been noticed by the person recording the sound files.

A lot of the early northern soul CD's were recorded at the wrong speed. I only noticed when years later I got the original vinyl.

Good question! Could either be the speed adjustment on one of the turntables, or perhaps caused by the file format/conversion. When converting from .wav to .mp3 or video formats, sometimes there are adjustments to bit rate or other codec issues that can change the speed or pitch of the song.

 Not that the times printed  on record labels are always accurate... but one way to test would be to see if the time on the record matches the play time of the file on the website you are viewing/listening on. Even a +/- 1 or 2 % speed difference could seem significant. 

 

Edited June 28, 20169 yr by WakefieldArchive
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It would be interesting to see how much more turntables have tended to get 'accidentally' set slower as we get old and creaky and less chemically pitched up : )

...Is this how interest in deep soul develops?

Must admit the cheapo turntable I have at home DOES seem to run significantly slow.

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