Here the updated novitskaya. I replaced the file so old link probably ok but not sure so reposting.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4hg9JZ1Ftlr-HEUTgapr-WVw-sTr1tD/view?usp=share_link
Here the pachmann. I used a lot of noise reduction. Sounds the same somehow.
Randomly the pachmann have relatively sick trills for being an old mofo here.
Why not just spend that time working on the Feux Follets?
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Why not both 
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Possibly get exhaustion from relaxing
Randomly there is a song I want to learn. Was thinking of ordering this sheet music.
Will figure out why there is no bass on the amazingly detailed tatum transfer tomorrow.
Will need to feed white noise to the nice preamp and learn the curve to see what is going on there and adjust for it in the chain. Don’t want to get ahead of myself before I get the resistors and stop the overload stuffs.
Amp config sounds better. It doesn’t make sense. Its flat and should just add noise. I feel the output board some weird impedence so testing a line to mic adapter to see if it sorts things out when pulling down to those ohm loads.
Damn… the impedence was the major issue. Her Visions sound kind of like a piano now.
Boring!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8fUQwKhmILT-LDX7yP4r3drkfEfSG-i/view?usp=share_link
Seems this cover pic was shot while she was listening to the playback (?)
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All her pictures basically for foretell her burn out. Excited to hear her competition recs tho. They are in the mail!!
Earl Wild blue danube complete with lots of groove wear. Aside form that is ok. Ordered another copy to see if its a groove thing. Early 60s RCAs all seemed chewed up for some reason. Possibly transition to stereo needles rough or the pressings were crap. Who knows
Redacted - Sounds too bad even for me!
Worked in a record store in the mid/later 1960’s, one that had listening booths.
Possible needle damage notwithstanding, there was significant difference in those years, especially in RCA pressings from about the 69-72 period, as they changed the content of the materials they used. This pertained not only to some later LM’s but LSC’s and Victrolas. (Frankly, for a couple years then, the Victrola surfaces were great, then they reverted to something else again and the moment was lost.) So, I’d suggest, the issue date of the disc(s) in question may be an indicator, but when the actual disc was pressed may be the bigger variable, especially for recs that had a long catalog (remember Schwann?) life.
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The year long laser mystery is solved.
The output board I had the ELP guys put in to output non curve corrected signal at line level had waaay too high or too unstable an impedence. The input resistance on my DAC (zoom F3) is only 3k. This was causing all sorts of issues. It explained why my amacha setup through the DS audio preamp sounded better when it should only have added noise. I snagged a high Z to low Z converter for the XLR path to drop output load to 150ohms into the Zoom on mic setting and voila all my digital curve correction stuff started working properly without nasal glare and other problems.
The only clean record I had in the tray was the not great pressing of Wild’s Blue Danube but a quick transfer shows the tonality improvement. Just ran a quick derumble and click removal on this - no channel balancing or other things.
The other bit is I had the cover off and was observing the servo alignment mechanism. It is really sensitive to eccentricity, so I center aligned the platter as best I could and that helped a ton.
I should now be able to take the most accurate transfers in human history of items already available in digital release.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Su8CgyHUkJ3CMp8lBFRZ3THtayAXlzN/view?usp=share_link
Gonna redo some 78s. Curious how much better those will sound.
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You know how some say older masterings sound better. Have you considered getting early edition vinyls of some classic 88 recordings and sprucing them up?
Or is that too easy for you to spend time on it?
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I’d say most of those aren’t so good, sadly. I have a bunch from cziff and Ho. Until things turned to tape and they could truly remaster things to higher standard, remasters tended to just have weird EQ choices that didn’t sound as good as the original pressings.
Big exception is the angel Ho releases from the early 60s. They are I explicably good and I suspect some magical HQ source there.
I’ll transfer some now that I have laser figured out.
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