Quinvy

Get yourself another hobby/interest. My other interests leave me without the means to buy records. 🤣

I’ve never understood the whole collecting thing. I back in the early 70’s I bought a lot of stuff blind. That’s just the way it was then, no YouTube or internet. I’ve never been wealthy enough to buy huge numbers of records. Since those early days, I’ve only ever bought records that blew me away, and that I wanted to play to other people. I always loved Dj’ing. Once that was over, I couldn’t sell up quickly enough. I had too much money invested in them. Everything I ever owned, I have recorded in full files, and can hear anytime, anywhere on multiple media devices. I’ve also borrowed some fantastic vinyl from friends, and in return supplied them with recordings. “Things” don’t belong to us, we only look after them for the next person.

Doesn’t sound anything like it to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It sounds like an unfinished demo to me. It could have been so much better with some strings to fill out the sparse arrangement.

Unfortunately it’s not the volume they turn up, it’s the gains! Which sounds terrible, and will kill your speakers.

A friend of mine used to Dj for me, there was no way he would cue up his records. We had some lovely long silences during his spot, with everyone looking around to see what was up. 🤣🤦‍♂️ If you’re going be a promoter, then for goodness sake try and be professional. Quality sound system. Including a quality microphone. Turntables adjusted correctly, with regular new styli. Sound system set up correctly, without making people’s ears bleed.

So you know better than Ortofon? Let’s just agree to disagree. 👍

To allow for back cueing.

You are quoting from an audiophile publication, which is aimed at getting the absolute perfect reproduction, in a perfect setting. The video that I posted, is produced by a leading stylus manufacturer, and shows how to set up your turntable in a club setting. i.e. full of people banging and crashing about, and clumsy Dj’s trying to cue up the next record. Also your quoted publication would, I’m pretty sure, be primarily concerned with 12” albums. There is more skate pressure present on albums than 7” singles.

I agree with the weight comment, but I always leave the anti skate off when back cuing.

That’s the other problem with promoters and Dj’s. Most haven’t got a clue about PA, they can’t set one up, and they just turn the gains up, until it's making your ears bleed. They think nothing about paying thousands for a record, but buy the cheapest pile of crap to play it on. Including the microphone,

It’s a nightmare as a promoter. I used to have to arrange the timetable to make certain that we never had two non speakers on one after the other. Otherwise it would kill the night.

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I’ve had a couple of copies, and labels were correct.