[78-L] Wet-playing records

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Distilled has nothing to do with it AFAIK.

I think it may depend on how they became worn, as I described 
previously. Let me phrase it another way - play a lacquer wet and then 
examine your stylus. The black gunk on the tip used to be your record. I 
don't see how one could describe the process as "beneficial" when it is 
destroying the artifact.

What are you expecting? Wet playing to eliminate pops and clicks? Not in 
my experience. To eliminate broadband surface noise? Already answered that.

joe salerno


Sammy Jones wrote:
> I must have missed the discussion...Probably happened on one of those weeks
> where I let the email pile up and never got around to reading the back
> issues of the Digest.
> 
> Is wet-playing with distilled water actually beneficial in any way to
> playing worn lacquers, or is this just one of those long-standing myths?
> 
> Sammy 
> 
> 
> Joe Salerno wrote:
>> It has been discussed here, not too long ago IIRC.
>>
>> I don't know about a consensus, but I personally do not find it
>> effective for vinyl. I find it damaging for lacquers, altho it may be
>> effective. Problem is, after you play wet, you must from then on play
>> wet to enjoy the reduced signal to noise ratio. I only do this if
>> transferring a lacquer that has already been played wet and damaged.
>> For
>> shellac I have not found it to help anything, but water will, with a
>> little time, damage shellac.
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
>>
>> Sammy Jones wrote:
>>> Has wet-playing ever been discussed here before?  Is there a
>> consensus of
>>> opinion on effectiveness of wet-playing 78s or radio transcriptions?
>> Does
>>> record material (shellac, vinyl, lacquer) matter?
>>>
>>> I've really got my doubts that it's very effective, but I'd love to
>> hear
>>> from my highly-regarded fellow listmembers.
>>>
>>> Sammy Jones
>>>
> 
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