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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo,...I unpacked my LPs last evening. They've been stored in cardboard boxes since 1989. They
traveled from Vancouver BC, to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas over the past 23 years. During that period they were in conditions ranging from sub-freezing temperatures to heat in excess of 120 degrees. They experienced the Northridge earthquake. On Monday I brought them in from the garage. On Tuesday I opened the boxes. Last night I unpacked them expecting an assortment of cracked, warped, and mildewed albums.
Without exception, they are all in great shape. The only damage is to some of the jackets that separated as a result of the glue dissolving.
I'm a happy guy!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the only thing that's gonna hurt them is water. Even high ambient temps won't necessarily cause warpage if they are packed that way.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)I've kept them in a consistent climate but the box is buried under a bunch of other ones so I don't expect to see it for a while. But it's a U-Haul book box that records fit in perfectly so they should be fine.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)A lot of the albums never made it to CD. The turntable works great and I've got about 100 albums out at the moment (along with about the same number of LaserDiscs). I'll probably end up waiting until fall when the house is more empty during the day and I can crank the hell out of the stereo. The speakers are wall mounted so I don't get any bouncing now. The woofers on my 35-year-old Genesis speakers (no relationship to the band) deteriorated a few years back, but they are the size (and weight) of large beer coolers and could knock the paint off the ceiling. Bouncing was an issue with those.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Last week I disconnected the rear channels cause the surround sound transmitter is shit.
Can't wait to spin my vinyl.
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)with a couple of cables, free audio editing software, and a USB turntable!
rocktivity
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)remember. Right now my biggest problem is finding a turntable I like at the right price. hifiguy has given me some great leads.
Most of my favorite albums I already have on CD.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I have lots of records that never made it to CD. The only problem is that when the volume in the recording is low, the software thinks it's the end of a song, and will end the file.
The only way to record classical stuff properly is to record an entire side of a vinyl as one file without separating movements. But that is OK. I have a lot of chamber music that was probably not reissued in CD.
You can use the software to take out pops. I wash my vinyls under the faucet, with a small amount of liquid soap smeared on them, and then rinsed, taking care to keep the label dry.
I suspect a lot of my old jazz and rock'n'roll never got to CD either.
i've had the same CD player on my 1970s era component stereo since 1990. Got a Denon six-stacker that works great. The idiot sales-kid couldn't understand why anybody would load up a six-stacker and let it play all day. Thought that music only comes in 3-minute singles, I guess.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)csziggy
(34,141 posts)You record the entire side of a vinyl record, then set the split points for the tracks manually. It's easy to set the split points or to move them. I've had a number of albums that had low audio points in the tracks, or that had low sounds at the ends of tracks. Plus sometimes, you want that few seconds of silence at the end of a track before your CD player or other digital audio software goes on to the next one.
Looking at it, CDWave has added a lot of features since the last time I upgraded - I may have to get the new version!
Kali
(55,032 posts)the only problem with vinyl is a result of laziness - damn things only have about 20 minutes to a side - you have to keep getting up and turning them over or getting out a new one...
I think they still make dixcwasher too - I did an OP on it back on DU I think...probably hifiguy knows - and probably answered me then too
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)Can my wife and I come stay with your for a couple of weeks????? Thanks, dude, what a pal!!
Bake
You two never beg to come see me in Boise, Idaho. Told the boys you'd come to band practice. What am I gunna tell 'em, now?
Bake
(21,977 posts)But hey, VEGAS, BABY!!
Bake
Tee hee.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)fuggedaboutit!
Bake
Ptah
(33,057 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Dino, Dezi, and Billy. Freddy and the Dreamers. Gary Lewis and the Playboys. All the greats!
Ptah
(33,057 posts)ALL the greats?
Samantha
(9,314 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 8, 2012, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Here are some I just pulled off the shelve to post here:
Aretha Franklin (includes Since You've Been Gone and Chain of Fools) -- I still love her
Bee Gees Live (a double album) -- most of the tunes you would recognize, but my favorites, "I Started a Joke", "Massachusetts, "How Can you Mend a Broken Heart" (will always play this song), "To Love Somebody", "Words" this one will live forever, "Boogie Child", "Nights on Broadway" and "Jive Talking", along with others
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
Wilson Pickett, "In The Midnight Hour"
The Best of Little Anthony and The Imperials - Remember "Going Out of My Head", "Hurt" and "Hurt So Bad"?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles LIVE
Janis Joplin In Concert (this is a treasure among my treasures!) -- double album -- "Kozmic Blues", "Try", "Get It While You Can" among others.
Janis Joplin, "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama
Janis Joplin, "Pearl" -- need anything be said about this one except "Cry Baby", "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Mercedes Benz"
Journey with "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" -- I would not take a million dollars for this one
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rolling Stones Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)
Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
Rolling Stones Through the Past Darkly (Big Hits Volume 2)
Blue Cheer New! and Improved!
Boogie with Canned Heat
Carley Simon (Come Upstairs)
The Platters, including The Magic Touch -- another one that I totally love
Heeeeey, "Elvis Golden Records" -- okay, I am from Tennessee
I will never forget THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS and their Greatest Hits (the white men of soul), includes "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and "Unchained Melody" among others
(Always Made Me Feel Good to Listen to) The Mama's and the Papa's, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears -- many of their greats
OMG -- The Dobbie Brothers -- Minute by Minute, remember "What a Fool Believes"
The Supremes A' Go-Go (okay this one a present given to me in college but it has some great songs on it)
The Doors L.A. Woman
Santana
I have others but these are all I can list now. It has been great fun looking at these and letting them take me back. Most of you guys probably don't even know a lot of these groups but I am sure that some of the Oldie But Goodie DU'ers might have enjoyed a musical trip back in time even if just for a moment.
Sam
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)Well, maybe you will let us know some of your titles when you get the chance.
I have others I didn't mention, like about 10 Gene Pitney ones. "Only Love Can Break A Heart" -- this was the first album I ever bought when I was about 12. My father fussed me the whole way back to the car, saying that guy is no Frank Sinatra!
I wonder when we say the equivalent some times these days about popular singers, if the younger folks think of us the way we thought of our parents.... I am sure they must, it is just a generational thing; however some of the artists I listed above I think will be heard forever!!
Sam
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Who's Next, Disraeli Gears, Kiln House, The Cake, Wipe Out, Days Of Future Passed, The Pied Piper,
Stereotomy, Long Player, Completely Well.