TT's don't make snap crackle POP, only reproduce it. Do you know what I mean?

Don't think the stylus or cartridges removes ticks and scrathes in the goove or surface of a record....even the Stanton brushes do minimal dust catching......how does the tone arm take care of the snaps pops and clicks in an LP? this has to be from what maker with magic tone arms now. It cannot remove the built in surface noise. Now if you are speaking of electrically induced noise hum etc, that is part of the cartridge, interacting with the phono pre amp...in teh record itslef, nope. If you of ocurse use teh wrong stylus say, one for 78's (which why anyone whould have such a best?) for 33 1/3 mechanically they are wrong together, that's not what it's meant to say. A noisey record is noisey.

Stanton had CS100 pretty great sounding cartridge, priced on this planet.

Don't believe it. How does the TT take out snaps, clicks, pops from a scratched up LP? Surface noise is in the vinyl, how does the TT change that? What is a portable record player, like they had in the 50's and 60's made out of cardboard? to play 45's?. Steven, did you miss the 50's 60's early 70's? cus there is no reason for vinyl in the 21st century. They don't make 1962 Valiants either from Plymouth, even Plymouth is gone. If you are talking bout things like a lousy noisey rumbly TT, then play onto a better TT, of course the rumble is gone, snap crackle pop....or if some really crappy TT, is speed off, of course everything will sound off....the snap crackle pop, from a scratch, is still there on the LP. SNAP!

If the Lp is scratched, and it doesn't play the scratch, you must have limited high freq ressponse system, if the speakers can play out to beyond 20K along with teh electronics, a scratch will certainly be heard. Isn't this the same argument you throw out, that if i can't hear wires, my system isn't "revealing" enough. Tracking ability on a warped record is easily explained with a better tone arm, i think my 3 VPI JMW arms would qulaify as decent, I never have a skip problem, the scratch surface noise etc is in teh groove, teh tone arm ain't taking it away, maybe a better cartridge reproduces what's in teh groove, and certainly a different stylus shape plays a different position in teh groove, if teh groove has a large enough scratch, it's not gonna be missed, unless your system is deficient in transinet response that blurs past stuff. How can you hear how a wire sounds, yet you can't hear the noise in an LP? Maybe you have politican ears, you only hear what you want to...hardly critical listening, another "audiophil;e" thing i thought you all had. I just listen, and i can hear all defects, etc.....Then ya put on the CD or SACD of the same recording and all of a sudden, it's the 21st century.....And 99.9999% of my LP's are pristine, no touches in over 30 years, and when even a brand new super duper overpriced LP, on magic heavy vinyl, has a snap.....it's a DEFECT. I do have a few that are quiet, but that is the rarity...Maybe your system ain't "revealing enough" back at ya. But then mine must be STABLE enough that wires have no sound....they ain't better than digital, that's for sure.

Audi A6 with Quattro takes care of all that crap....but i also bet if you have crappy tires on a better car it also will loose it, part of the system, so if you have some super duper TT and arm and cartridge, you put lousy tires on it (crappy vinyl with pops snaps clicks) it sounds like crap....And it's way too easy for LP's to develop those problems, they are obsolete, like a car without EFI or disc brakes, obsolete and un useable. How come most LP's are copied onto digital, but no one is taking their CD's and converting them to an LP? If teh Lp sounds so much better. And most recording artists when they talk about how the ANALOG sound is what they prefer, yeah, they are listening to reel reel 2" tapes done at 30IPS, not some crap record....

I gots records, i gots Cd's I gots SACD i gots DVD-A, i gots, I gots to enjoy. But the ultimate enjoy is DSD/DVD-A Or even some of my own LIVE recordings at a mere 48Khz 24 bit, I am gonna finally do a DSD live recording next time....but it uses a lot of space 1GB per 11 minutes, it'll be fantastic. I throw a record on once in a while, that's why I say, all the vinyl freaks, are that. They are not superior, the reviewers who claim it to be, such a godly revelation are keeping a fad going so they can sell some products. MF is basically full of nonsense, in his observations. He latched onto some goofy stuff, his first magazine flopped, so now he does it online, he's kinda of a tool actually. What is his engineering or technical background anyway? He reminds me of a used car salesman. Telling you a product is great, while the ckts are miswired, etc. What a tool. Why don't he publish his hearing test, since stuff he claims to hear borders on insanity, or one with a very prolific imagination, as a fiction writer. He is an ad writer for obsolete product mostly. As far as enjoying listening to records, I thought all you "critical" listeners have such superior abilities, now you claim those snaps pops, clicks etc don't matter...but you can hear what a magic AC line cord does....I think there is too much BS going on. If analog is so good, then why don't all the super ears have reel-reel high speed decks, if you are so into analog, records are a poor copy of teh original source, DSD/SACD is a perfect copy of it. And if you say well, reel-reel is too inconvient, so you take a LP copy, well, then that's why DIGITAL is superior, it has convience with exact copy abiltys, a vinyl record ruins what is on teh tape, digital doesn't. Now if MF starts reviewing analog tape machines, he may realize records suck for analog source material.

With the upgraded Eibach springs it took the float out,lowered it tightened it up big time, then if you get the S6, it's another world better. Car ain't been in for repair in years, you know not what you speak, as usual. 6 speed stick 2.7 Bi turbo, it's not your sloppy luxury boat....it takes off ramps with gusto, leaving all the tailgaters way behind, I love leaving asswipes behind, as they try to keep tailgating and almost go off the ramps. My goal might be an RS6....now we are smokin!!!

Every recording you listen to has be EQ'd processed, re moved and processed again. Explain to me how a better cartridge can deal with a scratch in the goove, it rides over it, and just decides to not see it? that would mean it is probably missing some of the data in the groove if it can do that? Maybe it's a smart stylus, , it knows a scratch or dirt particle from music? Now if you change stylus shapes, it rides in a different portion of the groove, of course that portion is scratch free and dirt free right? and do records not wear out now, every time you play em? don't think that's been done. LP is an inferior medium, iwth lotsa coloration, that maybe you find delightful, but you sure ain't hearing the original recordings, you are hearing something else, something with less dynamics, less freq extension, less of what was on teh original recordings....the physical media just cannot hold the data of the original recording, digital DSD can, even teh CD comes a lot closer than LP playback, it's the coloration you must like not accurate playback of teh recording, and you tell me not to use the EQ, which merely gets rid of some room stuff, but if you listen to an LP, you are messing with the source right into your stuff, the LP is a poor poor poor media. Unless you like to be a DJ and do some of that goofy back and forth on the TT, and call it music. You can be DJ Dopey Dope

I CRACKLE don't have a VPI Scout I have the SNAP MK III HW-19 with the incredibly grossly POP over priced first gen VPI speed SNAP controller. And some SNAP JMW 10 arms, with different CRACKLE cartridges on em. I think what you hear SNAP from a really cheap TT, is rumble. Of course POP the tone arm cartridge affects POP how it tracks over warps and stuff, but it still ain't gonna clean up scratched lousy noise surface of an LP, and each time you play it, you shave off a little more data..no SNAP matter how SNAP good your arm is...so how can a critical SNAP listener not hear the effects of a record wearing down, POP but can hear a FUSE making a difference...selective hearing? SNAP

Are you still clueless after all these posts? that's why the Audi catalog has em as an upgrade, or why they have them as a factory option, it's amazing what people don't know. http://eibach.com/cgi-bin/htmlos.exe/09613.2.4698459120400015457

Bentley GT is a massive car, it does things things a giant large should'nt do, yet it does....it is the 21st century, time to join it. Are you still thinking the 61 Impala is on the road? Same for the S8.

That is true, my GLX Jetta is much stiffer which I like stiffer seats, side bolsters, STIFF is RS4.....street legal race car.

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