Hi, Everyone.
So I just picked up a Fairchild 225A phono cart. I want to expand my Mono LP collection, in either 33 or 45, with LPs that have grooves wide enough to be played by a true Mono cart like my Fairchild.
I listen to all types of music and genres, so if anyone has a recommendation of a Mono LP that sounds great please post the album here so I can look for it and start building up my collection.
Thanks!
So I just picked up a Fairchild 225A phono cart. I want to expand my Mono LP collection, in either 33 or 45, with LPs that have grooves wide enough to be played by a true Mono cart like my Fairchild.
I listen to all types of music and genres, so if anyone has a recommendation of a Mono LP that sounds great please post the album here so I can look for it and start building up my collection.
Thanks!
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LPs are 33, not 45, by definition. Do you mean _microgroove_ mono records? Is the 225A actually a microgroove cartridge anyway, the only spec's I found say 4 to 8g tracking force, which is extremely high.
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The first album of the Pink Floyd and probably also the second have been reissued in (original) mono version.
Also Pet Sounds from the Beach Boys.
And any of the LPs from the '50s and '60s !
Also Pet Sounds from the Beach Boys.
And any of the LPs from the '50s and '60s !
I pick up Colombia Masterworks from the 50's in mono, also Capitol high fidelity classical. RCA Red Seal mono from the 50's they used ribbon mikes until 62? so the sound is not so good. Violins are screechy and pianos are dull and lifeless. These LP's are at the charity resale shops. Some have had the highs ripped off by cheap high weight cartridges like yours, I discard them. Others were taken care of and a water rinse to get the dust off makes them sound good. I use a shure M97HE era IV cartridge, which will also play stereo. I use 1.5 g on a BIC record changer.
Capitol pop records must have been mastered in an open shed in the Mojave desert, they always came with a ton of pops and clicks molded in. Beach Boys, Beatles, all those Capitol pop LPs were horridly noisy. Washing doesn't help. I bought some of these new so I know it wasn't the previous owner. A new Beatles Abbey Road from EMI in 2015 was much quieter, so the noise wasn't in the master tapes. Those Capitol stereo pop LP's were pathetic. Beach Boys it was the highs from the left and lows from the right, since the master tapes were mono. Beatles had multitrack master tapes so some voices & instruments would be in the left, others in the right. At least until Rubber Soul. Not very artistic. The 2015 Abbey Road might have been remastered, all voices were in the middle where they belonged.
Watch out for ATCO 45's their velocity was so high it would make a cheap cartridge jump out of the groove. I put a new stylus on the one that came with my used AR turntable and it still wouldn't track ATCO. Grado FTE and the Shure M97 cartridges would. But the Grado FTE had a cheap diamond that blew a chunk after 3 years. The Shure stylus is tracking along fine at 40 years of age.
Capitol pop records must have been mastered in an open shed in the Mojave desert, they always came with a ton of pops and clicks molded in. Beach Boys, Beatles, all those Capitol pop LPs were horridly noisy. Washing doesn't help. I bought some of these new so I know it wasn't the previous owner. A new Beatles Abbey Road from EMI in 2015 was much quieter, so the noise wasn't in the master tapes. Those Capitol stereo pop LP's were pathetic. Beach Boys it was the highs from the left and lows from the right, since the master tapes were mono. Beatles had multitrack master tapes so some voices & instruments would be in the left, others in the right. At least until Rubber Soul. Not very artistic. The 2015 Abbey Road might have been remastered, all voices were in the middle where they belonged.
Watch out for ATCO 45's their velocity was so high it would make a cheap cartridge jump out of the groove. I put a new stylus on the one that came with my used AR turntable and it still wouldn't track ATCO. Grado FTE and the Shure M97 cartridges would. But the Grado FTE had a cheap diamond that blew a chunk after 3 years. The Shure stylus is tracking along fine at 40 years of age.
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Not sure about this, I tried to find some specs too. It plays Soulville by Ben Webster flawlessly. So whatever groove size is on that LP it's perfect.
Are you sure the reissued version has a large enough groove? That's the issue I'm finding, that even mono reissues are cut with a small groove and better suited for a stereo cart.
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