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[ARSCLIST] Backward transfering?



David,

speaking of transferring backwards, is there some technical info about
tonearm and cartridge used for this process of backward transferring? Are
those tonarms and cartridges different or identical comparing them to pieces
dedicated for playing records "normally"?

Also, anyone tried to transfer ordinary 78 rpm record backwards, and noticed
any benefit of such action (especially mentioned avoiding worn parts of a
groove, and better signal-to-noise ratio)?

Best wishes,

Milan



----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Inside start



There is a case to be made for transferring a disc backwards, but unless
it's a particularly worn lacquer I wouldn't see any need for doing it in
this case. EMI sometimes played discs backwards when transferring, on the
theory that the stylus would avoid worn spots. And there are indeed
turntables that will play in reverse (Numark being one).

dl

John Ross wrote:
At 9/19/2007 11:34 AM, Roger Kulp wrote:
Inside start and backwards are not always the same thing.

That is correct. But if you place a tone arm on the outside of a rotating inside-start record, it will fall off the edge (or stay in an end-groove), because the groove is a reverse spiral relative to an outside-start record.

Both types play on a turntable running clockwise. For an inside-start
record to work, the spiral must be opposite to that of an outside-start
disc.

John Ross



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