Opening Brand New Vintage Classical Records
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2024
- Opening brand new Classical records from years ago. We open a 60 year old Archive, A 42 year old Deutsche Grammophon and 36year old RCA Red Seal. We then go on to Review some Red seals looking for that audiophile sound.
Red Seal Records from the late 60's through the 70's seem to have a bad reputation and usually this would be a correct and justified assumption. I have been in the trenches and singled out some excellent examples. I offer a bit of humble advise to help navigate this troubled era of RCA classical on vinyl. There are nuggets to be found.
Also there is an Audiophile pressing from a small Belgian audiophile label called "Accent" and another from a small American label called HnH. 
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Great video! I liked how you discussed the labels and cover design, etc, as well as giving your evaluation of the music itself.
Thank you for the kind words and checking out the channel !
Great video. Finally a place that is not just expensive reissues. Honest evaluations
Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks, will do!
Discovered your YT channel last week. And immediately addicted.This video is awesome!
Many thanks!! More to come.
You're the new Music on Record! Love it!
That is high praise but I'm afraid I do not possess half his knowledge, I am learning though.
Great videos and really good to have a such a wide range of label and performances.
Thank you for watching, I'm working the next episode :)
Great content as always 🎉
Thank You!!
love that Telemann quartet! takes me back to my bassoon days. it's too bad it didn't sound as good
I'm in the process of deep cleaning and making some progress. It is a really great piece!
Another audiophile who loves classical music, and lp's at that. Will miracles never cease! How large is your lp collection?
Hey Bob, thanks for watching! I'm not exactly sure how large in number, I would say it is substantial but not toooo big. It is fairly large but within the realm of sanity. In truth I went full in and cannot stop acquiring more. The sound is so addictive.
Great channel. Hey, oddly enough, what initially caught my attention is the SAE MM cartridge shot in your opening sequence. Ha! There's a vintage cart you don't see every day! LOL
In fact, could you be nice enough to describe the rest of your system please? Thanks. Even the headshell looks very different so I am now wondering what type of arm or turntable you are using. Listing your phono stage would be nice too.
Thanks!
Oz
Let There Be Sound, L.L.C.
Hello! Sure it is an SAE 1000e High output Moving Coil cartridge (NOS) in the video which I am still currently running, you can see a small cardboard shim to run it a bit "tail up" to give a bit more sparkle to the high end. Then a Grace G-704 unipivot oil dampened tonearm, The deck is a Technics Sp10 MK2 with stock obsidian compound plinth. The phono stage I am currently running is EAR 834 clone. I'm happy with as it stands but have a small desire to go back to a shibata profile diamond for a bit more presence, I will try to run the SAE out to it's lifespan and send it for a more exotic retip.
There is (or was) a seller on ebay selling both the 1000e and the 1000lt for $100 each. Is that where you got yours? I picked up three of them.
@@roward48 That’s where I bought mine some years ago. That seller off eBay.
@@roward48 Yes exactly :) About 6 months ago. I missed out on the LT, I was too late. even so the E is still incredible value in my opinion. I read there were some difficulties with decaying contacts but mine plays quite well.
You put the first record BACK in that decomposing inner sleeve. Aaarrrgghh!! I can’t watch this. Next.
hahah take a breath it will be ok :) The video was rolling so no time for everything to be perfect. I have since deep cleaned and placed in a new sleeve.
I have a James Galway with Marisa Robles from 1979. Is it maybe a re-release?
That is an interesting thought. It would explain the random 2 disc set with very little info. Does your copy have the 3 people with with brown wood panel background? If so I'm seeing they both have Concerto In C Major For Flute, Harp And Orchestra K.299 but the timings seem to be different, not sure if that is just a cut point difference or different performance altogether.
If you put it in that bag, wouldn't the vinyl change chemically and make the record bad?
if you mean the Archive, that might have been what happened, it might have gone though a few heat cycles over the years and the gas built up from the plastic. I don't think it will do much damage now but yes I changed the inner sleeve to a standard plastic modern one.
Great content. Appreciate your information. You are pronouncing Galway's name incorrectly. It's GAWL-way.
Oh man , I thought I had that one right. Thank you for the correction. Also I used your "Große" correction in a soon to be released video thank you again.
You don't need a voiceover. You are good on camera. The sleeve may of degassed on the record leaving white streaks and causing more noise.
Yes that makes a lot of sense. I did notice the streaks don't travel the length of the record to the inner groove , only about 1/3 of the way, but I should examine more closely. I'm thinking a wet clean.
Great video, loads of entertaining and really informative content. You’ve managed seamlessly to build on the voiceover strengths with a nice relaxed visual presentation style, although possibly some of the mix of chemical fumes from smelling those ancient sealed records may have steadied any initial nerves! The RCA Red Seal overview was excellent I appreciate you emphasised that the UK Red Seals have different qualities to the US ones from the same period. A while back on a thread after a Pressing Matters video on Julian Bream we 0:02 realised we were discussing two completely different record pressings both called Red Seal. Incidentally do you have any Canadian ones as I have a Red Seal of Bream’s Rodrigo/Vivaldi/Britten that I had always enjoyed, assumed to be UK Decca pressing and recently discovered pressed in Canada, I then read Salvatore commenting that some can be very good. Thanks for the name check and revisiting the Kleiber Beethoven 5 in the later reequalised pressing, glad you enjoyed it more.
@@analogueanorak1904 Hahah! yes in hindsight taking a full double nostril whiff of a 60 year old sealed chemical based product is probably not the best of ideas. About that Bream Rodrigo/Vivaldi/Britten : Ahh that cover looks very familiar, I may possibly have a LM mono but not a stereo. I have listened to some Canadian pressed red seals and my general feeling is that they were/are not as good as their American counterparts. I will try to sample some more when I get a moment, I do have some kicking around.
@@VinylBliss Taking in the aroma after opening a sealed record is all part of the fun. I’ve got some footage I’m likely to use later this year of me getting a nose full of the musty bouquet from a previously sealed Lyrita record vintage 1973. As far as your suspicions of James Galway Argerich sexual chemistry from their album cover you should definitely Google the cover of the James Galway Cleo Laine album, crikey!
Do you not clean before you play, and put in a clean sleeve. There will be so much gunk in the grooves, every time you put in back in a dirty cover you reinfect it ?
I agree about reinfecting but I'm not sure where I did that in this video? I'm opening sealed records or else playing flawless examples in this episode. The Archive indeed would have benefited from a deep clean but I did that recently and it is better but still too noisy. @truestereo1323 mentioned the disc might be "gassed" and I would have to agree. The DG and RCA sealed did not need a clean at all, dead quite out the seal, listening with headphones.
@@VinylBliss sealed records are not clean, I buy a significant volume and all get a light clean first in my Degritter, and the filter requires frequent cleaning. A vinyl pressings plant is a dirty environment and paper sheds. One chap in our Degritter forum produced some images from a medical grade type of scope he had access to and showed a before and after from a brand new record, it was incredible . I’m able to remove a lot of clicks and pops which have been caused during the pressing packing process., and we get regular feedback about the overall improvement in soundstage, and in the highs and lows, I sometimes have to give 4/5 passes on a heavy setting in extreme cases, that’s an hour of a sonic clean on older “mint” classical recordings especially.
@@celtic-audiophile thank you I will try. I have to get one of those degritters.
Maybe an enzyme cleaner but it may be permanently part of the record. I have picked up too many in thrift stores that have suffered from degassing.
I don't have any enzyme on hand but did wet clean with 1/4 99% isopropyl alcohol,3/4 water 1 drop of dish soap and a carefully selected microfiber cloth. It did get rid of the plastic residue stain and removed quite a bit of the noise. There is a still fair bit of noise almost too much but it is a step in the right direction. That Sonata in G Major (side A track2) is a revelation considering the 1951 recording, it is so alive and natural.