Television – Marquee Moon {Original US Pressing} | 96kHz & 44.1kHz Vinyl Rip
Posted by pbthal @ March 16th, 2012
Television – Marquee Moon
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz & 16-bit/44.1kHz | FLAC | Artwork
FP + RS + FF
Vinyl Ripping Process/Equipment
Vinyl Cleaning Process
•3 Liter Ultrasonic Cleaner (Tap water with Sporicidin) on custom rotating assembly at 1 RPM for one hour
•Vacuum off with Nitty Gritty
•AIVS Premium Record Cleaner Formula No. 15 applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
•McCulloch MC-1275 Heavy-Duty Steam Cleaner applied with Mofi Brush while rotating on VPI 16.5
•Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
•L’Art du Son Record Cleaning Fluid applied with VPI Bristle brush
•Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
•Whole Foods Deionized Water applied with Mofi Brush (Separate from AIVS Mofi Brush)
•Vacuum off with VPI 16.5
•Flip record and repeat
•Place record on Plate Demgnetizer
Turntable Equipment Profile
•VPI Scoutmaster with inverted bearing and 300 RPM motor
•Trans-Fi ResoMat
•Gingko Cloud 11 Vibration Control Platform
•VPI Synchronous Drive System turntable motor speed controller and line isolator
•Trans-Fi Audio Terminator T3Pro tangential tracking air bearing tonearm with Tomahawk Armwand
•Zyx 4D-X/SB2 cartridge
Phono Stage Profile
•Musical Surroundings Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
•Musical Surroundings Battery Power Supply
Analog/Digital Convertion
•RME ADI-2 =< ADAT =< E-MU 1212M
•Adobe Audition 3.01 running on Windows XP in a Shuttle PC form factor
Post Processing Of Audio
•Run thru ClickRepair(if necessary) at level 7 with
•Pitch Protection | off
•Reverse | on
•Simple
•Resample to 96khz in Izotope Rx2 using the default preset
•Manually listen to album in Adobe Audition cleaning any clicks/anomalies
•Flac with Xrecode II for hi-rez files
•Flac with Trader’s Little Helper for redbook files
Where did the Final Master stuff go?
I don’t feel it is necessary to “label” my rips anymore, comparisons will be done, comments will be made, at the end of the day, if I like it that is good enough for me.
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First pressing on the butterfly Elektra label
01. See No Evil
02. Venus
03. Friction
04. Marquee Moon
05. Elevation
06. Guiding Light
07. Prove It
08. Torn Curtain