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ITEM# BKAA49
7.95


The LP Is Back!

from Audio Amateur Inc.

From the pages of Audio Amateur magazine and other sources, absolutely everything you need to get the most out of your vintage LPs or new audiophile quality pressings. Information on cleaning discs, building a disc cleaning machine, calibration, maintenance, and equipment to improve your LP playback system's performance.

1999, 160pp., 8" x 10 1/2", softbound.
1-882580-21-4
.78 lbs

CONTENTS THEORY AND CARE: Component Interfaces (Part I); Component Interfaces (Part II); Audio Topics: Record Care (Part I); Audio Topics: Record Care (Part II); Tracing Distortion and What To Do About It (Part I); Tracing Distortion and What To Do About It (Part II); Record Groove Parameters; Minimizing Pickup Tracking Error (Part I); Minimizing Pickup Tracking Error (Part II); Minimizing Pickup Tracking Distortion (A Sequel); The "Disc Sound" And Why It Sounds That Way; Audio Fundamentals: About Equalization; Who Has the Perfect Tip?; Disc Recording Equalization Demystified; PRACTICE: Igor: Washer for Dirty Discs; A Vacuum System for Cleaning Recordings; A Storage Cabinet for Phonograph Discs; ELECTRONICS: A Vacuum Tube Pre-Preamp with Active Voltage Regulation; A Preamp for Vintage 78s; RIAA Network Limitations; AR System Drives New Turntable; An Electronic Speed Control; HARDWARE: The Belt-Driven Turntable Revisited; A Do-It-Yourself Tonearm; The Praying Mantis; Modifying the Rabco SL8E; SME Shell Surgery; Modifying the Formula-4 Tonearm; Improving Rabco's ST-4 Tonearm; A Tangential Tracking Tonearm; Step Right Up: A Moving Coil Transformer; An Anti-Shock Turntable Cradle; A Seismic Platform; Convert Your Turntable to Belt Drive; The Mr. Bill Turntable