Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Kunzel/Cincinnati Symphony NM/NM Digital Cannons
$
27
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Digital cannons! Ragged musket fire! Dancing Cossacks! What's not to like?
Here for your consideration is a really fine copy of every audiophile's secret "guilty pleasure" audiophile record: The 1979 Telarc Records pressing of Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, plus the composer's Capriccio Italien and the "Cossack Dance" from Tchaikovsky's ill-fated three-act opera, Mazeppa. Other audiophile records are more highly regarded, yet hundreds of audiophiles have this record in their collection, and play it late at night when they just want to have fun!
When Telarc produced this record in 1979, they touted the digital cannon shots as the most difficult to track passage of any record yet produced. Back in the '80s, audiophiles the world over took Telarc's "we dare you to track this record" challenge to heart, and many a stylus went skittering across the vinyl surface in ignominious failure. Most cartridges back in the day couldn't track Telarc's famous cannon shots, and the resulting damage left thousands of Telarc 1812s in sad condition.
This is not one of "those" Telarc 1812s. This is one of several copies I purchased new in 1979 or 1980, and my opened and played copies were successfully tracked with a Shure V-15 Type III (and later a Type IV) installed in a tweaked-out Thorens TD-160 or a Technics SL-1200. The vinyl is still Near Mint (NM), as is the jacket. And the record still sounds fabulous, probably even better now than it did back in the early 1980s. Here's why:
This LP began with nice, shiny vinyl. This was enhanced by cleaning on a VPI 16.5 record cleaning machine, rinsing with distilled water, a second vacuuming and then deep-cleaning on an ultrasonic record cleaning system to reduce the amount of groove noise to extremely low levels.
Cleaning a record on a vacuum record cleaning machine such as the VPI 16.5 will remove airborne debris, dirt, fingerprint residue and other environmental contaminants the LP surfaces have accumulated over the years since it was manufactured. You can hear an immediate improvement.
The ultrasonic cleaning goes even further, removing oils, microscopic bits of dirt and even pressing lubricants from the disc mastering process that may be trapped deep within the grooves. This is the sort of debris and junk that other record cleaning systems often fail to remove. Following the ultrasonic cleaning, the LP surfaces will be quieter, perhaps quieter than most other records in your collection.
Ultrasonic cleaning of a vinyl record, especially a near mint copy such as this, removes a lot of grunge and debris from deep in the record grooves, often resulting in cleaner sound, less distortion, greater dynamic range, blacker backgrounds between notes, quieter vinyl surfaces and a lower noise floor. With proper care (maybe an occasional light dusting with an Audioquest record brush) and really excellent playback gear, you will often hear musical details you never noticed before.
This record will ship in a new record mailer, protected by an antistatic record sleeve, a protective outer sleeve, and, where appropriate, cardboard stiffeners and bubble wrap. Ships to U.S. addresses only. Thank you for viewing this listing, and good luck bidding!
price rating
