Noise Reduction Unit For Vinyl Records

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Noise reduction unit for vinyl records. The company dbx inc was also involved with dynamic noise reduction systems. This is an impulse type of noise. Dbx is a family of noise reduction systems developed by the company of the same name. Through his company hagerman audio labs jim offers a wide range of excellent products and accessories geared toward vinyl reproduction.

I ve written several articles discussing system noise but this well written paper by jim hagerman zeroes in on noise problems encountered in vinyl playback systems. With his permission we have re posted the article on our website. Not much information is available on google. Packburn 323a noise reduction unit vinyl i have a packburn 323a stereo noise reduction unit.

The 40 hz position will suffice for many noise plagued lp records and 78s while the 80 hz position may prove useful with old acoustic records records with hum rumble severe warps or records requiring severe bass boost. A separate implementation known as dbx tv is part of the mts system used to provide stereo sound to north american and certain other tv systems. There are two fundamentally different types of noise reduction systems that were developed for lp records. Would removing the noise of the vinyl and manually removing clicks and pops in audition negatively affect other areas of the music.

Sweetvinyl s features include discogs lp metadata track splitting non destructive click and pop removal svnr surface noise reduction independent ad da operation and front panel recording. It was used by cbs records in new york and is in fine condition minus the lack of one front panel screw and was told by a cbs engineer that it needs power supply capacitor s replacement due to a low level hum. It was a magnetic phono preamplifier with a scratch reduction circuit designed to remove the noise associated with fairly significant scratches on lp records. I don t have audition but anything you do manually will only affect the waveform where you touch it.