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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    https://pspatialaudio.com/record_characters.htm To whom it may concern the Teldec paragraph is very interesting
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    Perfect! Same thing with Vta/Sra, anti skating,tracking force etc.
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    I sharing my experiences. I gave some extra advices like the polarity and the phase, that usually are not shared, when the topic is the de emphasis curves for stereo records. You can say that I should lower the vta for Mercury records and that is the right thing to do, but for me it is not...
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    I was expecting an answer like that This statement is to whom might be interested, I don’t want to change your mind.
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    With Analogue Production records try the Riaa Enhanced for example. For Decca and London made in Uk after 1966/67 the curve is Teldec, if you don’t have Teldec you can use the Decca/London curve. Before 1965/66 all the stereo records have been made with the Columbia Lp curve. You have to pay...
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    There are some rules
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    You’re welcome
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    This is an interesting story https://www.gammaelectronics.xyz/audio_03-1975_westrex.html
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    I I also have another question for you. Was the Riaa standard decided by the record industry before the invention of the 45/45 or they decided a standard after that they were certain that the new stereo cutting head was a good choice for the new format? What if for example who invented the...
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    I want to ask one thing only. Give me an example of bad stereo recording in your library and if you can tell me the year when the recording was released and the name of the label.
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    Anyone seriously audition a phono stage with selectable EQ Curves and decide against it? Anyone not using this feature in theirs?

    The Westrex 3D The Westrex 3D (1964) was Riaa indeed, but the Westrex 45/45, the first ever Stereo cutterhead adopted by the records industry and approved by Riaa, was not
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