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Ever come across one of these? I have thousands of LPs, but have only 2 albums that do this and I can’t figure out the sitcheeyation with either.

I have a mono Paul Desmond/Jim Hall on RCA Dynagroove. Every time the guitar comes up in the mix for a solo, It’s like an earthquake: the tonearm starts vibrating like mad.

Also, some Gary McFarland album on Skye that has something or other to do with Greek mythology. There are similar parts where the tonearm just starts vibrating and skipping.

What’s up with these? Were the masters not cut to industry standards?

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Ever come across one of these? I have thousands of LPs, but have only 2 albums that do this and I can’t figure out the sitcheeyation with either.

I have a mono Paul Desmond/Jim Hall on RCA Dynagroove. Every time the guitar comes up in the mix for a solo, It’s like an earthquake: the tonearm starts vibrating like mad.

Also, some Gary McFarland album on Skye that has something or other to do with Greek mythology. There are similar parts where the tonearm just starts vibrating and skipping.

What’s up with these? Were the masters not cut to industry standards?

I used to have quite a few of these. But since I got my new turntable, I haven't got any.

I think the industry standards changed at some point so that only very expensive turntables could play LPs cut to the new standards.

I also think that cramming more music onto an LP side didn't help.

But what do I know?

MG

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I have a mono Paul Desmond/Jim Hall on RCA Dynagroove. Every time the guitar comes up in the mix for a solo, It’s like an earthquake: the tonearm starts vibrating like mad.

I have several RCA Dynagroove Lps, including Duke's Far Eastern Suite, which is one of the best-sounding orchestral records I own, but many of these Dynagrooves sound like crap. I used to have a visually-mint 2lp set of Willie The Lion Smith that sounded awful. I later replaced it with another one that sounds just fine.

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