Rega P25 Demonstration - Beatles "Come Together"

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"Come Together"
The Beatles
Abbey Road
Capitol / Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs
MFSL 1-023

The Rega P25 plays the Beatles on vinyl! Not just any vinyl, but the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs release of Abbey Road. Cut at 1/2 speed and remastered to perfection.

This video is meant as a demostration of the Rega P25 turntable, Zyx R100H cartridge, and Audio Research PH5 tube phono preamp. No copyright infringement was expressed or implied.

Equipment used: Rega P25 w/J.A. Mitchell 'Technoweight' and Rega white belt upgrade, Zyx R100H moving coil cartridge, Audio Research PH5, Presonus Inspire interface, and Wireworld Eclipse II interconnects. The cartridge was aligned using a Feichert protractor. Tracking weight was set to 1.95g.

This is also my first attempt at uploading a high-definition video to Youtube. It was encoded @ 1920x1080, 29.97fps, H.264 and AAC 48K audio.

EMI
Beatles on Itunes: http://bit.ly/mCE1Xm

Category:

Music

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• beatles
• abbey
• road
• rega
• p25
• planer
• zyx
• r100h
• audio
• research
• ph5
• presonus
• inspire
• wireworld
• eclipse
• feickert
• analog
• record
• reissue
• mofi
• mobile
• fidelity
• master
• recording
• rock

[kd8bud]

How do you like that VPI rcm? Worth the money?

[BSD2000]

@kd8bud I think it is. I buy a lot of used records that are usually fairly dirty with dust, hair, and sometimes mold. I wouldn't dare play them with my $2K Zyx cartridge without first giving them a good cleaning. Before getting the VPI, I did use a Spin Clean record cleaner, which I believe is very good for the money. The VPI takes it one step further with the vacuum and really pulls out all of the dirt deep in the grooves. The difference can be shocking at times, just how good the VPI works.

[lagerdean1978]

Nice system! Do you record through your pc's line?

[BSD2000]

@lagerdean1978 Thanks! I record the audio for all of my videos direct using a Presonus Inspire firewire interface @ 88.2K/24bit or 96K/24bit resolution. The signal chain is: Zyx R100H cartridge -> Audio Research PH5 tube phono preamp -> Presonus Inspire interface. I edit my videos with Adobe Premiere and replace the audio from the camcorder with the direct recording from the turntable. You can see the recording interface @ 0:55 (device on top with the bright blue LED).

[BSD2000]

@lagerdean1978 Also, I do not use any audio plug-ins to cleanup (pop/click removal) or modify (EQ) the audio recording. What you hear in the video is exactly what came off the vinyl record. On the downside, Youtube compresses the audio somewhat, so there is a loss of sound quality compared to my original .wav audio recording.

[mcshadypies]

Got to be honest, I don't understand the techy audophile stuff but that sounds freaking amazing! Is there any way I can get even close to this sort of sound on a budget? I'd imagine not... one can dream... ;-)

[BSD2000]

@mcshadypies You can get very good results from a very modest setup. For a real low cost budget, find a 70~80's vintage turntable at a thrift store, maybe a receiver that has phono inputs and try it out. There are a ton of excellent cartridges available from Ortofon, Shure, Audio Technica, Grado, etc. that sound fantastic for the price. I started out with a $25 Technics turntable and an Audio Technica AT3400 cartridge through a Onkyo receiver with great results. Give it a try! :)

[margaretsville]

Great transfer. I never used a moving coil cart before. I would like to try the Denon DL-103 as a starter.  Have you tried a Denon before? What was your impression. Regards, Ed

[bluejay55118]

...I've been using Sony MDR-V150 headphones but they're not the best. Can you recommend some good headphones that aren't too expensive? Thank you!

[pedrito77]

This sounds crazy!!! Triple like!

[edujmac]

WOW!

[lagerdean1978]

@BSD2000 WOW!! I'am just looking for new way to record from vinyl to get the best sound quality, at the moment I use a technics 1210 mk2 with a AT120e cart > Musical Fidelity Phono Stage > Cambridge Audio 350 A amp > then into my PC's line in socket which I think is the weakest link in the chain!