[78-L] Removal of hiss - a different approach

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

I never thought of using other liquids. That would make an interesting 
experiment if you could find enough mint copies of the same record. I 
recall some time ago in a resale shop on lower Wesrheimer seeing a stack 
of records, 78s, all of the same item. It had been produced by someone 
in Houston I believe, wish I had bought a 1/2 dozen or so now. Next time 
I was in the area either the shop or the records were all gone. Probably 
land fill now.

A long time ago I once tried using a spray, silicone IIRC, as a NR 
experiement, didn't hear any improvement.

I've also heard from OTR collectors who wet play vinyl pressed ETs and 
claimed it reduced noise, but I never heard it.

joe salerno


marimbamoods at comcast.net wrote:
> I know an audio engineer who does 78 re-issues who sometimes wets the record before playing it in order to reduce stylus friction and hence hiss noise. I don't know what liquid he uses, i.e. oil, water, soap, etc. 
> 
> 
> David Harvey 
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