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[B]The Beach Boys
Record Store Day 78s
Good Vibrations b/w Heros and Villains[/B]
Capitol 509990 98341 18
speed 78 r.p.m.
monophonic
24 bit 192 kHz FLACS

[I]The Scoop...[/I]

I'm sharing this for two reasons. One, I know that not everyone has the pleasure of being near an indie record store and being able to participate in RSD. Two, I want critical feedback on my 78 rpm method. My table doesn't have a 78 rpm speed, so I did this drop at 96k, forced the software to "see" the file as 166400 Hz, then upsampled to 192k to have a standard file. I know the resamples could be an issue, and I know the RIAA curve at the slower playback speed could also be an issue, so I want to know how this sounds to you. I will not be sharing this at Redbook because I don't want it to be an alternatie to the forthcoming commercial release.

[I]Tracks...[/I]

Side A - Good Vibrations
Side B - Heroes and Villains
Side C - Good Vibrations (early take)
Side D - Heroes and Villains (alternate take)

[I]Lineage...[/I]

Turntable - A vintage VIP Boyscout circa 1966 recently upgraded with a custom plinth hand made of Nubian Dragon wood illegally harvested from Djibouti at great personal risk but used for it's exceptionally nubian tonal response.
Tonearm - SMEK series 1984 modded with X-1R Crawler Track Lubricant from the Space Shuttle to give an out of this world character.
Cartridge - Koetsuzuki Ivory Platinum, a very limited production run of fifty three units, each one hand carved from a white key removed from the Blüthner Grand Piano that was used by The Beatles during the "Let it Be" sessions. The resulting musicality and magical aura is thought to be obvious to all.
Phono stage - Womanley Labs Marlin all tube stage with Russian Svetlanovski tubes that have had a few hundred months burn in time as used in the system of Sergei Rachmaninov as he listened to RCA Victor Program Transcription pressings of Beethoven symphonies for inspiration.
A/D converter - Apologee Schmenke 192 converter with firewire and vintage ESDI interfaces.
Cables - Galemark exclusively uses and endorses Lardas cables. They give him his signature fat sound. (Actually, Galemark would like you to know that he never uses any product as pedestrian as Lardas, but since they are paying him big bucks for the endorsement deal, that is what he is telling people.)
Software - Audacious for Vistakon OS with proprietary dither program written for me by Peter Gotcher because we're boys.
Cleaning - VIP Monsoon machine with a top secret fluid. This special enzymatic fluid is made with several proprietary agents, including pure bile removed from Steve Hoffman's gall bladder during his recent back surgery. The Hoffman magic shines through on every one of my drops.

Ugh...okay...I made all of that up...here is the actual "mid-fi" system that was used...

JVC QL-A7 direct drive turntable (with mods).
Audio-Technica AT440MLa Cartridge.
Marantz Model 2230 Receiver (Phono Pre).
Vinyl meticulously hand cleaned.
E-Mu 1212m soundcard capturing at 32 bit float, 192 khz.
Lightly polished with ClickRepair (unless completely manually declicked - see description)
Stray pops missed by CR manually removed with Audition single click tool (never batch processed).
Resampled and dithered with iZotope RX.
No other signal processing is used (unless noted in the description).

[B]Another quality GALEMARK needledrop
[I]"When you care enough to send the very best"[/I][/B]

[I]Always traded, never sold
Always trade lossless[/I]