[78-L] PLAYING DISCS WET

[Taylor Bowie]

Didn't Nino MARTINI make records?    They would for sure be better dry!

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] PLAYING DISCS WET


>I prefer to be dry when playing discs..however, if you insist:
>
> Handel's Water Music
> Sleepy Lagoon
> Drip Drip Drip (Spike Jones)
> Bloop Bleep (Danny Kaye, Woody Herman or the great Frank Loesser himself)
> Umbrella Man
> Swimmin' With the Women (George Formby)
> He Played His Ukulele As The Ship Went Down (Ambrose or Jack Hylton)
>
> dl
>
>
>
> Milan P Milovanovic wrote:
>> Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us!
>>
>>
>>
>> Milan
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Doug Pomeroy" <pomeroyaudio at att.net>
>> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] PLAYING DISCS WET
>>
>>
>>> I was referring to playing "acetates".  The benefit of playing worn
>>> LPs wet wet is very small or nil, in my experience.
>>>
>>> DOug
>>>
>>> ===============================
>>>
>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:13:03 +0100
>>> From: "Milan P Milovanovic" <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] PLAYING DISCS WET, was Re:  Removing hiss - yet
>>> another idea
>>> To: <78-l at 78online.com>
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>>>> NOTE, I always add a small amount of surfactant (Kodak Photo-Flo,
>>>> or a few drops of liquid detergent) to the water to help it wet the
>>>> groove
>>>> totally (prevent "beading"), and I use a sable paint brush to
>>>> spread the
>>>> water in the grooves in front of the stylus while playing the disc
>>>> (and yes,
>>>> of course I always rinse the disc with distilled water when I'm done).
>>>
>>> Hello Doug,
>>>
>>> are you doing this while playing vinyl records or acetate discs, right?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Milan
>>>
>>> Doug Pomeroy
>>> POMEROY AUDIO
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>>>
>>> "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
>>> ---Albert Einstein
>>>
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