Warbling vinyl

[that_punk_guy]

Hmm.

So I have this new LP, with a really bad "wowing" varying pitch during playback. On side A. Side B sounds fine.

It's not entirely flat but I have more warped vinyl that plays fine and the dips don't appear to correspond with the pitch changes. And wouldn't that affect both sides? In any event I don't have a clamp. :-(

Maybe a heavier table would be enough to pull the disc round at a more consistant speed?

Gah! This is frustrating. I'm going to put it near the bottom of the pile overnight and hope some miracle happens to fix it.

[that_punk_guy]

Karlos wrote:
What you need is one of those laser stylus based turntables.

I remember talking to Mike about these, pretty cool and I'd like to hear one in action. Although I seem to remember reading that they aren't all-analogue and there's some D/A conversion involved.

@all

Thanks for the suggestions. Too tired to try them tonight but I will tomorrow. :-)

[that_punk_guy]

:lol:

Well, it seems to be a few mm off-center. Am I right in thinking that towards the inside of the disc the music becomes increasingly squashed together to compensate for the shorter distance the needle is running with each spin? I guess that'd account for it.

This means contacting the guy who sold it to me, which is a case of big-time embarrassment and pride swallowing since he's (a) the singer and guitarist of the band and (b) my hero (well one of them - my other personal heroes to date include Vincent and some red-haired girl from California. If you'd like to be on my hero list, apply in writing.)

Heh. :-D

As a side-note, I came across this interesting page whilst on my travels:

http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html

[that_punk_guy]

Porn links? :-?

[that_punk_guy]

:-o

That wasn't there when I posted it!! I must have had the page cached too.

[that_punk_guy]

Have any connoisseurs of high technology here heard DVD-Audio yet?

[that_punk_guy]

What I meant was that since the outside of the disc moves a lot faster than the inside, that physically each second of audio occupies a shorter distance on the groove. So if you played the groove linear somehow, it would steadily increase in pitch. That would account for the varying pitch where the groove isn't concentric with the centre hole.

Um, that's if I'm right. My head hurts, I'm not sure, heh. :-)

[that_punk_guy]

I find myself sitting on the fence really with the analogue/digital debate. I remember the first time I heard vinyl on a good system, my uncle had this big Pioneer system. This is when those standalone cabinet hi-fis were still the norm, and I'd grown up with the hype about CD's superiority. I just thought vinyl was supposed to sound like crap, and it blew me away.

So while I never became an audiophile (in fact the most time I get to listen to music these days is on the move... in mp3) it's still an interest. (My vinyl collection's pretty small though.)

This is why DVD-Audio (and SACD) interests me, although I can't help thinking, what if they had waited a little while longer and gone for an even higher resolution? I hope they left the door open for higher bitrates in those formats, anyway.

I don't like the encryption though.

I'm rambling and it's not very interesting, but I'm trying to talk about something other than politics and racism for a while.  :-D

[that_punk_guy]

Well my current player's mp3-only. Just a cheap CD-based thing. But I have been eyeing up an iRiver (iPod clone) which supports Ogg. Maybe when I'm rich.