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

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

If the record is damaged by a wet play, cleaning it would be a good 
thing to do for some other issue, but not for correcting the surface damage.

joe salerno


David Lennick wrote:
> Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> At 09:33 AM 2/7/2010, you wrote:
>>> neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> OK, in stead of attempting to remove noise/hiss by scanning a record, is
>>>> there a way to chemically treat the surface to smooth out small
>>>> imperfections that would cause noise?
>>>>
>>> Careful, Joe, you are treading on very dangerous ground here,  It is
>>> called "wet playing" and is very controversial.  The distilled water (or
>>> maybe some other fluid) would fill in gaps and give a smooth surface for
>>> the needle to skate over.  But it really is like hydroplaning on a wet
>>> road.  Your tires lose actual contact with the road and are floating on
>>> a cushion of water.  Something you do not want to do.
>>  From what I've read on wet playing of records is once you play wet 
>> you have to stay wet with that record from now on as dry playback 
>> sounds worse once you wet play a record. 
>>
> Wouldn't a good cleaning with the Monks solve the problem of discs that had 
> been wet-played? It works just fine for LPs that have been cleaned and put away 
> wet in plastic-lined sleeves.
> 
> dl
> 
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